Sword and the Script

MARCH 2, 2021

The first reason is to acquire a new piece of technology. The second reason is to acquire customers. Over the course of my career, I’ve lived through two acquisitions, contributed to internal and external comms for several more, and at different organizations, and even did a divestiture. Did you know?

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Critical Mention

JULY 15, 2020

In continuing its commitment to 24/7/365 customer service, Critical Mention has also created a quick and simple way for users to submit requests for data updates to a support team that will update records within 24 hours in most cases. . “The

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Reputation Us

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The IRP team consists of four cybersecurity functions and specialists: Peter Marchel of Marchel & Associates Risk Consulting, Sean Hoar of Lewis Brisbois (legal), Carl York of Clifton Larson Allen (technology) and Casey Boggs of ReputationUs (public relations/reputation). Post-incident priority response and support if an incident occurs.

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Cision

AUGUST 2, 2016

With new technology and platforms popping up every day, there are a ton of distribution tactics to choose from. Look internally. Most brands focus externally when creating and promoting content, but they’re missing an important audience to include: the internal audience.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

One thing is certain, this giant step in the technological revolution is here to stay and only growing more extensive and impactful daily. Content Creation and Curation: AI technologies can assist marketers in creating and curating content. Related: AI in Customer Service: The Race to the Bottom?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 6, 2016

A PR agency employee starting in the business today will be creating programs, telling stories, and reporting to clients in ways very different from just a few years ago, in part due to the rise of digital technology and the blurring of lines between paid, earned, and owned media. Everything is measurable and measured.

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The Hoyt Organization

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

THO set an internal goal of ensuring that the average clip/day count was maintained and, in most months, accelerated from one brand to the next. In this case, the client and reporter alike knew there would be a continuity of service and expertise that transcended any brand.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. This new technology enables 24/7 availability. Transparency. Brand humanization. Stories are omnipresent.

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The Resolution Blog

MAY 7, 2019

Adam Hirsh We recently got the chance to chat to Adam Hirsch , former COO at Mashable and current senior vice president of emerging media and technology at Edelman Digital , about AI in PR. I actually had the task of understanding all the technologies we use and finding the points where AI exists in those tools and platforms.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 11, 2017

These early arrangements can include a junior in-house employee or possibly a “shared” situation where the PR function is wedged into marketing or even customer service. Knowing the signs that lead to such a decision can help ensure a smooth transition from internal to external team. Emerging targeting technologies.

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wiredPRworks

MAY 18, 2022

Delivering Customer Service in a Self-Service World” shows how customer service is the new marketing. As a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, he has also taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. It has been translated into Korean and German.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 3, 2020

The application in crisis communications is interesting because in the face of negative news coverage the internal debate tends to be two-fold: a) should we respond and b) if so, how? She joined the company as a sales associate in 1987 and before her promotion served as the company’s chief customer service officer.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Big data offers insights that enable customization and pose new cyber security and privacy issues. Mobile technology is transforming how businesses communicate. Diversity remains a challenge and a top priority. Our Code of Ethics remains the standard for performance, and we have added a collegiate credential.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MAY 23, 2023

As you can imagine, this increased demand is driving up airfares on most routes, with ticket prices for international flights increasing by more than 30%. According to AAA data , Europe and Canada are the most popular international destinations. They are up more than 300% over last year.

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Barokas

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Moreover, content can be a significant burden when the internal team does not have access to someone with journalistic training. Further, juggling projects across a broad range of freelancers (getting them up to speed, connecting them with internal experts, shuffling invoices, etc.)

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Sometimes the need and benefits of doing this can be forgotten due to the ease and habits we all have in using today’s technology, social media included. However, on the other hand, technology does provide us with unprecedented opportunities for reaching your stakeholders directly in their pockets when communication matters most.

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PR 20/20

AUGUST 22, 2017

While only 7% cite executive sponsorship as their paramount challenge, 40% indicated that the most common challenge—proving ROI—points to a crucial need to drum up and perpetuate internal support. Sales is unsure of handing over its customer database for email marketing campaigns. My own experiences echo these findings.

Marketing 87

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PR in High Definition

JULY 22, 2019

For the uninitiated, the term deepfake refers to artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology that synthesises imagery and voices to present something that didn’t occur, usually in video form – imagine a convincing video of yourself that has been edited so someone adds a voiceover for something you didn’t say. Not this time.

Media 74

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

“You’ll leave with best practices and relevant case studies from real-world marketers thriving at the intersection of marketing, technology, and management.”. Programmed by Scott Brinker (you probably know him from his blog ChiefMartec.com ), the MarTech Conference takes a graduate-level look at marketing, technology and management topics.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In its fifth year, Content Marketing World brings over 3,500 people from over 50 countries together and covers topics ranging from tools and technology to optimization to the future of content marketing. You learn, you laugh and you try to keep up.

Content Marketing 120

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Critical Mention

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. This new technology enables 24/7 availability. Transparency. Brand humanization. Stories are omnipresent.

Social Media 61

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In each one, I aim to explain in jargon-free language, what is new with the vendors making technology that helps PR pros to do their jobs. My main motive for buying the shares was to track the company, for this column and out of personal interest in the PR technology space. Disclosure: I own 25 shares in CISN.

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Beyond PR

JANUARY 16, 2018

Other technology vendors often flaunt their ability to capture social amplification data, but in many cases, these are simply vanity metrics. Communications teams will also be able to easily access charts and easy-to-share dashboards to visualize social data in the way that matters most to their brand and internal audiences.

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 15, 2019

Without a refreshed outlook and adoption of current marketing trends and technologies, you can’t expect to outperform last year. Consider top personas, your company or service’s value proposition and how you’ll actually target them (personalized ads, reaching out via LinkedIn, targeted email nurturing campaigns). How Can I Apply It?

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

I call it the PR technology summary ( PR tech sum ) and here’s what I found over the last 30 days. The press release doesn’t spell out any specific technology initiatives, so it seems this is merely an agreement allowing each business to sell the others’ products. “Q4 Here we go…. The company has raised a total of $66.3

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wiredPRworks

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Thanks, also, to MPI [Meeting Professionals International] for booking me as a Smart Monday speaker. Track: Technology / Social Media. Grow your business by integrating LinkedIn into sales, customer service, marketing, or PR efforts for immediate and long-term impact throughout your company and its community.

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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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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

“The marketing industry is moving too fast to internalize everything.” — Paul Roetzer, The Marketing Performance Blueprint. In spite of having more channels, more technology and more data than ever before, marketers are still struggling to make, and measure, an impact on the bottom line. Invite a group of internal stakeholders (e.g.

Strategy 40

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Disruptive opportunities like the chance to rank first for voice search in search engines: “Beyond playing into trends, voice interactions with chatbots, virtual assistants and other IoT technologies have the potential to upend traditional search and display advertising models in the near future, even for giants in the space like Google.

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prTini

JANUARY 15, 2016

How do you deliver exceptional, quick customer service while also exceeding the marketing-promotion and revenue-generating goals? If that person has less social media experience, we can also provide coaching and training to help the client build capacity internally. Client supplements internal team with agency support.

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Reputation Us

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

That’s why a crisis communications plan must be developed first before the inevitability of a data breach, a cyberattack or internal fraud sinks the credit union’s valuable reputation. That’s what good customer service is,” Huey explained. “I People want to know. Perception is reality.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

A recent report from Continuity Insights in 2014 shows that “over half (58%) rated mobile technologies [are considered] as absolutely vital in carrying out crisis communications plans, up 5% since 2013” (page 4). Go to the International Risk and Crisis Communication Conference ( ICRC ). Here are a few ways to do this: 1.

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Onclusive

JUNE 1, 2023

When a journalist writes a negative article, internal stakeholders may jump to conclusions about the impact that will have on your brand. With a robust social listening tool, you can create compelling reports in minutes that will speak volumes to senior internal stakeholders.

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NewsWhip

JUNE 10, 2021

I don’t know if it even exists anymore, but basically I wrote a lot of user manuals on how to use technologies when people needed that. It comes down to every customer service interaction. By the way, for anyone that doesn’t know what technical writing is, don’t worry. That is a risk. Chris: Yeah. Ben: Gotcha.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 7, 2022

Technological breakdowns. A technological crisis also called a technical failure or system crash is an unforeseen event that interrupts the normal function of a computer system. This normally happens in cases where the technology fails to work as planned, or when there is a delay in the scheduled arrival of a particular service/good.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 1, 2015

I also serve as a liaison between his accounts and our Customer Service teams, should a customer or claimant reach out to Jack through social media. He wanted to try this new technology on for size. What’s been the impact internally and across the country with your AmFam agents and teams?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, given the vast amount of time I pour into writing about PR technology , I’m really pleased with the long list of contributions from the PR technology vendor community. Internal comms takes center comms stage in hybrid work. There is no order of merit, these predictions are listed by the order in which they were received.

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