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Digital PR spend increases significantly, but still not enough investment in training

Stuart Bruce

In-house PR and communications people say they need more education and insight around social influencer outreach/engagement (31%); social network strategy (27%); and digital crisis management (27%). The biggest in-house platform losers are Pinterest and Google+, with a drop of 14% and 11% in usage respectively over the past year.

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10 Habits Of Highly Successful PR People

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

We are big fans of webinars such as those offered by Cision and PR News on topics ranging from Craft a Crisis Plan for High-Speed News Cycles to Breaking Down the State of the Media in 2017. And exposure to eager PR students helps fill the new hire or intern pipeline.

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33 Statistics Summarizing the Year in Public Relations, Content Marketing, Social Media and SEO

Sword and the Script

Marketing measurement statistics. Sixty-two percent of respondents answered that they planned to increase internal public relations staffing over the next five years and a full 75 percent said they planned to increase overall spending on PR over that same time period.”. 12) Emotion in crisis communications works.

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The State of Social Media in 2017

Stuart Bruce

No matter how good the customer service team is it would be ridiculous to expect them to handle social media for internal communications. The results of the questions about measurement and evaluation are equally alarming with the vast majority relying on fairly crude metrics such as likes, comments, mentions, shares, retweets etc.

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Your Favorite MaccaPR Blog Posts: Ellen's Oscar Selfie, Death of PR Spin and Online Content Secrets

MaccaPR

For a closer look at past posts, we welcome you to peruse these past blog post categories: Agency Life (3) , Blogger Relations (2) , Blogging (8) , Brand Strategy (19) , Content Curation (3) , Corporate Communications (13) , Crisis Communications (9) , E-Book (1) , Event Marketing (5) , Facebook (5) , Giveaway (4) , Google+ (1) , Inbound Marketing (..)

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7 Lessons From A Brand Battle: Bose vs. Beats By Dre Headphones

MaccaPR

In this age of Pinterest, Instagram, Vine and other visual branding channels, Bose has struggled to find graphic images that will reinforce – rather than undermine – its appeal to today’s consumers. The official Beats by Dre Pinterest page has 3,573 followers with 110 pins. Just 31 followers for its “Bose: Better Sound For Life” page.

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Public relations in 2018

Stephen Waddington

12 months is an arbitrary period to measure change in a sector that is rapidly innovating in some areas such as artificial intelligence and digital media; but woefully slow in others such as diversity and ethics. I’ve also published a blog of key international events in the public relations calendar as part of the project.

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