Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. The resurgence of internal communications Internal communications is one of the hottest areas of contemporary PR. I’ve developed each of these themes below. It is enjoying significant growth.

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PR Conversations

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A European internal communications veteran explains: In order to help organisations use communications to get results , practitioners should call on simple skills and experience —not a book of runes, silver bullets or magic fairy dust. ” We need to shed some light on employee communications. By Liam FitzPatrick, FCIPR.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

AUGUST 26, 2014

A Guest Post By Suzanne Mannion, EVP & Co-founder, Newsmaker Group. But this direction has kept me flexible and enhanced my creativity by ensuring I do not simply rely on what works in any one industry. And keep in mind that internal communication departments often provide room for growth as you develop your skills.

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Industry Fashion Travel Tourism 316

Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 1, 2017

We are always challenging our team to come up with new and creative ways to use social media, and SocialLIVE not only lets us share our experiences on camera but allows the team to test the new features that we are going to pitch to our clients. The Socialfly team is full of creative minds that are quick with memes, hashtags, and captions.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

AVENIR GLOBAL, one of the top 15 largest communications firms in the world, has more than 1,000 employees in key strategic markets across Europe/Middle East, the United States and Canada. Hanover Group also includes creative communications agency The Playbook, and the brand and culture consultancy Multiple.

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Healthcare Public Affairs Creativity Agency 128

PRSay

APRIL 5, 2022

A few years ago while serving in an internal communication role for a large Catholic health system, I worked alongside nuns who would sing, “We are standing on the shoulders of those who came before us.” It’s a place where there are employee resource groups for women, LGBTQIA+, people of color, veterans and others.

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Stern + Associates

DECEMBER 12, 2022

With a focus on how technology changes the way people work, his methods include teaching leaders how to use social technologies to enhance internal knowledge sharing, structure global product development operations and manage the human aspects of new technology implementation. Technology is Only Half the Equation; The Other Half is People.

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Technology Employee Software Groups 62

Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Improve internal communications. Gather actionable insights from data analysis and focus groups. To get started, you develop a creative concept and a marketing strategy, which you pair up with copywriting and art direction to create your assets. And these groups are rarely convinced by marketing messages.

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Publicity Public Affairs Journalism Corporate 52

Prohibition

MARCH 15, 2023

Video content is a creative and standout way to engage your target audience to highlight key messages and is becoming more and popular with online media outlets – making it a tactic that should be considered for your PR campaign. It only makes sense then, to use this ‘video technology’ to creatively highlight the issue of homophobia.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2017

While some PR firms boast comprehensive intern or entry-level programs, they may be short on actual PR practice and long on busy work. A chance to show creative flair. . We also encourage everyone – even interns – to write blog posts and try their hand at short videos for social sharing.

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Skype Agency Meeting Software 147

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 20, 2019

We are asking business executives, supervisors, and individual employees to all join in with HR to fix workplace cultures. Employees are a critical piece to any organization’s success and yet one that is often taken for granted, overlooked or shuffled along. When you have engaged employees, you have happy customers.

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Reputation Us

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Horoscopes aside, with the breadth of pressures on companies and their employees, it’s no surprise that more than half of our Eight Reputation Enhancement Actions to Take are people-centric this year. Surveys and focus groups are a good way to do this. It’s okay to promote your superstars; their successes can inspire other employees.

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Stern + Associates

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As we navigate various transitions over the coming months and years, leaders are likely to see employees struggle with anxiety, depression, burnout and trauma. When organizations invest in mental health, it’s better for employees and better for business. Put People First to Unlock Innovation, Creativity – and Higher Profits.

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Stern + Associates

MARCH 15, 2023

Read on to learn about the pioneers who are on the cutting edge of how organizations can better understand and leverage LLMs to save costs and boost creativity today. Cars can drive themselves and machines outperform doctors in medical diagnostics.

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Technology Ethics Tools Creativity 96

PR for Anyone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Employee Ownership Month. International Walk To School Month. National Reading Group Month. But get creative. Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month. Emotional Wellness Month. Filipino American History Month. Financial Planning Month. German-American Heritage Month. Global Diversity Awareness Month. Health Literacy Month.

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Pitching Financial Small Business YouTube 130

Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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Solo PR Pro

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It was during that experience that he truly found his love for PR, enjoying the way it combined his passion for meeting new people and interviewing clients with the creative freedom he’d been yearning for while working as a journalist. But when you've got a wedding to pay for you do what you have to do.”. Lessons learned in the seminary.

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Maxim Behar

DECEMBER 20, 2022

I love working with you and with M3 Communications Group, Inc. Group CEO, AvianWE. CEO, The Skills Group. We know each other for almost 15 years now, have done numerous projects together within the International PR Organization ICCO, have met several times in Austria and in Bulgaria. I am very proud of you! Nitin Mantri.

Energy 52

Energy Groups Internal International 52

Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

A North Minneapolis native, Tess excelled in her journalism program at Drake University, during which she presided over the Coalition of Black Students and interned in business development with The Integer Group and in marketing/group sales with Iowa Events Center. Jordan has a true passion for communication and sports!

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Ethical Voices

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Back in the day, way, way back, there was internal communications, there was external communications. Now, internal is external. And sometimes what employees want to hear or potential employees want to hear is one thing, but there has to be consistency with what’s going on externally.

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Wadds Inc.

AUGUST 14, 2023

Creative capabilities in particular are highly sought after – so the Uncommon/Havas deal was not surprising. As the digital groups continue to grow rapidly, the demand for strong creative capabilities will continue as they look for content to win the battle for attention, competing for acquisitions with the networks.

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Agency Sports Public Affairs Creativity 52

Barokas

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

You spend the next few hours sifting through your inbox, staffing briefings, attending internal meetings and executing on account work. Thrive is a collection of activities we’re trying out in order to help Barokas PR employees be the happiest and healthiest they can be – physically, mentally and emotionally. Lunchtime walking groups.

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Corporate Employee Groups Resources 68

Cision

JULY 7, 2016

The creation and refinement of a brand needs to be a deliberate, organic process that significantly incorporates the ideas of employees and evolves naturally. I’ve been very fortunate in my career to have been offered the opportunity to broaden my communication skills to other areas, such as speech writing and internal communications.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It aims to communicate with these groups to create a favourable overall company image. The goal is to persuade these target groups to purchase the company’s products or services. To get started, you develop a creative concept and a marketing strategy, which you pair up with copywriting and art direction to create your assets.

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Publicity Marketing eBook Public Affairs 52

Stuart Bruce

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

New York advertising agency McCann boasts on its website about the awesome creativity of its guerilla campaign that saw it sneak in the middle of the night to drop off without permission the statue of a girl to face up the famous Wall Street charging bull. ” Except Fearless Girl was living a lie.

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Cision

DECEMBER 11, 2015

But if you start multiplying 11 by all your employees, influencers, loyal customers and all of their followers who publicly retweet, link to or favorite your content, the number grows exponentially. To put it briefly, this grouping of content is protected for the entirety of the creator’s life, plus another 70 years.

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Telecommunications Training Reputation Software 120

Stephen Waddington

MAY 16, 2019

It spurred her interest in PR and she joined the Masters in International PR course at Newcastle working for a local agency along the way. Her first job was working as a social media marketing executive on behalf of a group of hotels in the Lake District. Always address applications to a person.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

By analyzing customer data model, AI algorithms group customers based on similarities and behaviors, which enables marketers to create tailored campaigns that resonate with specific segments and increase campaign effectiveness. While this technology revolutionizes the industry, some argue it cannot replace the human touch and creativity. “AI

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Communications Marketing Technology Data 40

MaccaPR

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Is it really all that important that your brand teams go beyond hiring staff with the surnames Anderson, Peterson, Gustafson and Carlson, and make an extra effort to welcome agency interns with names like Pham, Castillo, Sabah or Xiong? White women in the focus group thought the ad was great. I would never let my kids do that.”

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Solo PR Pro

JUNE 14, 2022

She discovered a theater she loved and reached out to the head of marketing and PR to ask if she could intern with her. I learned a ton—there was no money, so I learned to be creative,” Jen explains. In a twist of fate, she lost her job as part of a group layoff the day before she was due with her baby.

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Maxim Behar

JANUARY 11, 2024

You think about your colleagues, projects, employees, customers, turnover, and everything else. Like you said we get up, we pick up the phone and I think at that point some of the creativity is over as we consume information, different opinions. How can we find employees who have the potential to be leaders and leaders?

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Leadership Social Media Creativity Ethics 59

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 31, 2017

Feeling creative? In routine sessions participants may come unprepared or be reluctant to share, relying on others to do the heavy creative lifting. We also like asking team members to submit quick ideas through email or group chat. There’s a very smart exercise to be done when floating an idea internally.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The report provides an international perspective on the challenges facing the PR business. A study called the Velvet Ghetto commissioned by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) first called out the gender pay gap in the PR profession in 1986. ICCO consists of national PR trade associations in 55 countries.

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Solo PR Pro

MAY 21, 2019

Unstoppable Cultures continues the mission Ginger Hardage began during her time as Senior Vice President of Culture and Communications at Southwest Airlines where she cultivated the airline’s trademark internal and external culture: “We put people first, we treat customers like family, we nurture our culture, and we try to change ahead of the times.”

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Leadership Employee Airlines Construction 55

MaccaPR

JULY 13, 2017

A shift in employee attitudes from an internal campaign? In competing with other PR agencies, Spong had a clear differentiator – awards, including “PR Agency of the Year” four times running and “Creative Agency of the Year” twice. What’s the biggest mistake clients make with their PR agencies? A gain in market share?

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prTini

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Instead of waiting eons for painstaking internal changes at large companies, why shouldn’t the industry as a whole look to the example set by boutique agencies, who often have more progressive ideals and, therefore, policies? Another favorite example comes from Aaron Blank at the Fearey Group. Embracing the Risk of Innovation.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 14, 2022

Your employees and stakeholders could be made to look incompetent or immoral. For this reason, it’s important to have a diverse group of staff members involved in the development of your PR Crisis Plan. For example, an employee leaks damaging information about your company. ? A major crisis. What is a PR Crisis Plan?

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