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Letter from Darlington: In praise of editors

Stephen Waddington

It’s a critical part of the creative process. As I write this I can hear his exasperation at my lack of English language education. Editing and sub-editing have been a casualty of the shift from print to online. The web app simplifies writing and improves its comprehension. It’s not a invite, it’s an invitation.

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12 ways to produce a killer press release

Presspage

Write a snappy subject line for your email, says Elise Copps of Hamilton Health Sciences. Write snappily Use active voice, not passive. Include meaningful boilerplate The simplest points sometimes need restating: Write the boilerplate description of your company as if for somebody who has never heard of your business.

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

It’s impossible to keep coming up with creative ideas to reach and resonate with audiences who are not represented by a PR team. BME PR Pros is a community created by Elizabeth Bananuka that promotes black, Asian and ethnic minority diversity in the creative industries. The web has overhauled organisational communication and marketing.

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PR Tech Briefing: How Cision Impact is Bringing Earned Media Attribution and Retargeting to Public Relations

Sword and the Script

They provided me with a presentation outlining the product, a web demonstration, and answered my questions about it. Many PR professionals rely on circulation numbers (impressions) or web traffic estimates to provide some sense of reach. At the time of this writing, there are no reviews of Cision Impact on the review site G2.

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Six Content Distribution Tips that Everyone Else Isn’t Already Doing

Sword and the Script

Some of this advice was good five years ago, and some of it is just terrible nonsense that spams up the web with repetitive muck. Everyone hits up the same list and the glamour of it has long since worn off unless you are writing them a check. bring creative ideas and execute them? On and on the lists go…. Talk to Us !

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This Twitter Ad Shows Us Why Social Media Advertising Needs Cross-Functional Teams Empowered with Compassion and Humanity

Sword and the Script

You can have the best research, personas, targeting, messages and creative – and still miss the mark. As I write this post, there are 450+ likes, 50 retweets and 250 comments (screenshot nearby). You just never had to worry about this sort of thing, at this scale, in a world of print ads and billboards. and use data to execute?

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Dealmaking Sizzles Again Among PR Software Providers and Here Comes Another Side Dish of Generative AI for Comms [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

The product name and press release position the tool as a writing assistant of sorts, “to create initial draft frameworks for press releases and outreach communications.” Social media tools offer AI to write social media posts. Email tools will offer AI to help write emails. We’re going to see a lot more tools like this in 2023.