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From PR to Marketing: Why You Should Expand Your Skill Set

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years working on the technology PR team. The Agency had just sprouted a marketing technology team arm, and I had been itching to learn more in that area for some time. Creating content – whether it’s a white paper, an Infographic or original research – can help make news for us. I spent the first 3.5

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The Top 5 Skills That Young (And All) Communicators Should Develop

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By understanding how to think about and interpret data, communicators need to be able to draw inferences and understand trends by providing insights based on what they observe. Visuals : Traditionally, communicators have been trained in writing. Video, photos, infographics and the like are necessary in a mobile and digital world.

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What PR Professionals Should Have Learned at IBM World of Watson

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At World of Watson, IBM data scientists demonstrated the latest technology solutions for delving through millions of papers, articles, and data to find hidden patterns and powerful insights. As an industry, we must stop fearing technology. Tell Better Data Stories. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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{PR}edict: Predictive Analytics and the Future of PR, Part 3

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we take this data series and project it forward, using the existing 5 years’ data as the training data. What Would PR Do? I personally don’t have a PR agency for my blog, but if I did, I would provide them this data. What would a data-driven PR agency like SHIFT do with it?

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