Ethical Voices

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While I was a bit under the weather from a cold, Rebecca provided ethics insights on a number of topics, including: . The two things every ethical communicator must embrace. I’ve spent the last 25 years of my career in corporate communication as an agency owner, and with WE Communications who acquired my business back in 2016.

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Ethical Voices

OCTOBER 17, 2022

He shares some great public relations ethics insights including: The ongoing ethical challenge of creating shared beliefs. Ethical issues with creating your own echo chamber. Ethical perils in personalizing employee communications. The ethics of quiet quitting. Can an organization even have values?

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Ethical Voices

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Joining me on this week’s episode of EthicalVoices is Kelsey Bohl , the Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Press Office at Walmart. I moved from that role into a completely different role at the university – the Executive Director of University Planning and Analysis, which is a long title for essentially a chief data officer.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Will you be able to legally, ethically, reputationally defend the advice you gave? Bring in data or other experts to make your case. Some executives on the McKinsey team had to realize what they were doing (or being asked to do) was wrong — ethically, morally, perhaps legally. How do your words make you look as a person?

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JUNE 27, 2018

Unlike before, corporate action isn’t just lobbying for laws and regulations that increase their profits. They are offering moral leadership where regional and national governments are failing to do what their consumers want and need. Pay attention to ethics. The Biggest Changes for Marketers in a New Era of Global.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 24, 2022

Yes, data can be compelling, but smart B2B marketers know that storytelling is more powerful than a list of facts. Thought leadership events, too, can support an expert positioning. Those “boring” categories require research, education, and commitment by buyers. A strategic PR campaign can influence the buying decision.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 24, 2018

In 2000, the company had become part of the DaimlerChrysler alliance, but then Mitsubishi tried unsuccessfully to hide defects in its cars, rather than acting ethically by conducting a mass recall. Mitsubishi’s history of scandals suggested an unethical corporate culture.

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5W PR

JANUARY 31, 2024

Corporate PR: Manages the overall image of a tech company, including its values, culture, and achievements, to build a positive brand perception with stakeholders. Thought Leadership PR: Positions key executives or experts within the company as industry thought leaders through expert commentary, articles, and speaking engagements.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This will contribute to even more noise, and it will make high-quality corporate content both more appreciated and harder to find.”. A great data divide. Data and the use of data will become the great divide between marketers producing content and content marketing. David Berkowitz , Founder, Serial Marketers.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Blogs, including independent and corporate blogs, can be credible. B2B thought leadership drives perceptions, trust and sales A survey of 3,000+ business executives by Edelman and LinkedIn connected B2B thought leadership to trust and sales. More: The 3 Characteristics of Effective Thought Leadership in B2B Marketing 3.

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PRSay

JANUARY 29, 2018

Great counseling firms were founded and legendary corporate communications departments were born. For more than 100 years, all of us — agencies, clients and educators, working together around the world through mutuality of endeavor — defined a new industry. Important professional organizations and groundbreaking degree programs were created.

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Ethical Voices

MAY 6, 2023

She was one of the first people I interviewed when Ethical Voices launched in 2019, and I figured it was time to have her back, particularly because Ethisphere recently released an updated list of the World’s Most Ethical companies. What are the top ethics issues facing companies? It has a couple of component pieces.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Many of the blog posts published here are based on survey research, analytical studies or other sources of data. Effect of thought leadership on reputation and sales. According to a study by Edelman, “48% of decision-makers spend an hour or more reading thought leadership content each week. Source: Code of PR Ethics? ).

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I will be talking about mobile, data and wearable technology as the drivers and ethics, real time and content as the issues. We’ll look at ethics and governance. The importance of data. Mobile, data and wearable technology. Data is everywhere. It’s anonymised data, but it’s still our data that it is using.

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PRSay

JANUARY 16, 2020

As if threats of massive data breaches, technology outages or consumer-privacy rebellions weren’t worrisome enough; now, a new cause for cyber-insomnia looms: “reputation exploitation.”. Consequently, executives and corporate boards are feeling a sense of urgency as they recognize that they are responsible for managing these new risks.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Each September, PRSA recognizes Public Relations Ethics Month, supported by programs presented by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS). This year’s theme, Public Relations Ethics: Strengthening Our Core, guides a special focus on the six core values highlighted in the PRSA Code of Ethics.

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 26, 2018

Together with our board of directors and staff leadership, I’m guided by our three-year strategic plan. meaning diversity, advocacy, technology and ethics. Regarding diversity, we need to lead by inclusion and improve involvement of diverse populations in PRSA’s membership and leadership.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 1, 2022

” In open-ended comments, respondents cite digital, internal comms and a greater focus on comms by leadership as among the underlying reasons. DE&I was followed by thought leadership (49%), data & analytics (48%), storytelling (48%), comms strategy (46%), measurement (46%), internal comms (44%) and ESG programs (43%).

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

At the same time public relations has become elevated as the eyes and ears of an organisation not just in the public sector as means of public engagement, but in corporate communications, internal communications, and marketing. Access to first party data through credible tools is a boon for the sector. Thank you in anticipation.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Further reading Corporate Digital Responsibility, Allegory, 29 July 2021, [link] The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, 3 February 2021, [link] Carbon as a PR metric but who's counting? 30 agencies submitted data to the project. The data reflected the UK market.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 3, 2019

From going to prison after being convicted for violating the FCPA (the US foreign anti-bribery law) to founding Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC, and educating multinationals on current issues and challenges with respect to compliance, ethics and anti-bribery, Richard Bistrong has come a long way. If so, how?

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Tackling fake news and disinformation: an ethical issue that strikes at the heart of practice 6. This covered the glass ceiling, pay gap, lack of mentorship opportunities and stereotyped expectations of leadership style, where leadership is usually seen as a masculine trait. Representing the public that we serve 4. What we do 5.

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Stephen Waddington

AUGUST 27, 2019

I will continue the excellent work, which has positioned the profession as a strategic management function through active engagement with the business community showing how ethical communication can enhance economic performance. Rachel I’ll be an ambassador for the strategic leadership role PR plays and create board level advocates for PR.

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Cision

JANUARY 20, 2016

For Scott Beaudoin, corporate social responsibility isn’t just good for society; it’s a necessary business practice. Here, he discusses his new role as chief strategy officer and executive managing director of corporate and brand purpose at RF|Binder and how he hopes to help companies become more purpose-driven and socially responsible.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I believe there will be an acceleration towards humanizing brands, putting individuals in front of a corporate identity, in an effort to emotionally connect with customers.”. – BJ Schaknowski | Vertafore. Expect an uptick in personalization with more martech players putting out easier ways to synthesize and customize data sets.

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Stuart Bruce

MAY 29, 2016

I actually laughed out loud when I read this story about the BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson setting up a corporate consultancy to advise on crisis communications and then even more rapidly closing it again because of the crisis it created. According to his agent: “Simpson has not yet taken on any corporate work.”

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Instead of gazing into a crystal ball to predict the future trends of content creation, we must make educated forecasts, monitoring the available data and adjusting as necessary,” writes Ann Gynn as she shares some “well-informed predictions for content marketing” from Content Marketing World presenters.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 8, 2019

People are afraid, for example, and many corporate clients have policies that prohibit such interviews without a permission slip. Marketing also has purse strings that can be creatively – and ethically – spent to appease a specific rep with the right reference. Ask your customers for interviews on your corporate blog – soft interviews.

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PR in High Definition

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For a start, in the corporate world, those long work Zoom calls could become a little more interesting in the metaverse. You could even have a metaverse CEO or leadership team and mould them into whoever you want them to be, regardless of who they really are on the outside. Quite a scary thought!

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PR Conversations

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

With PR bodies increasingly focused on the importance of raising standards in professionalism and ethics, why are some (or most?) So, let’s quickly examine some of the data from recent industry based research: 13 percent of respondents judge the professional standards of PR practitioners by levels of training and qualifications.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Regardless of whether marketers embrace AI, it is accelerating change in the industry and transforming careers along the way: Consumers will demand greater personalization, while wanting to control their data and privacy. Career paths will evolve. Some jobs will be lost, and new ones, some we can’t even fathom, will be created.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

And it fills me with pride, Dave, to see how you have ascended to a position of leadership in this industry that we all love so much. Page Society — to enrich and advance the leadership role of communicators — has never been more relevant. Page Society Hall of Fame on Sunday, Sept. Dave is a Ketchum alum.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 24, 2018

Last year, the data overwhelmingly found every business says they are doing content marketing. A few months back a relatively mature startup doing some cool things in IoT and corporate real estate approached me for a proposal. The surveys have started. Your product has a place in the content marketing program but be smart about it.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The leadership and vision provided by early public relations professionals was squandered. In Two-Way Street , a short book about public relations published in 1948, Eric Goldman describes the three stages of the development of corporate communication from 1900. Data is sourced from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

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Stuart Bruce

MARCH 19, 2015

That said there is much to take about public relations from the book, not least Robert’s definitions of the five major threats facing public relations: data and insights; outcomes, not outputs; networks, not hierarchies; scale; talent. You tell the truth, not just because telling the truth is the ethical thing to do. I disagree.

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Cision

JUNE 1, 2017

This can be found from the smallest agencies to the largest corporations. However, we still have unbalanced gender representation at top levels of leadership within the traditional agency structure. KD: Both my hard work ethic and proactive nature have been key drivers in the advancement of my career.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sales data: In some cases, PR practitioners may track sales data to see if there is a correlation between PR efforts and increased sales. I wouldn’t have occurred to me to mentioned Edward Bernays as a “thought leader” but what is thought leadership without history?

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