Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How many data breach hacks are you going to watch happen to others before you get your team in gear and take the necessary precautions to minimize this risk from happening to your organization? You have a responsibility to your customers, clients, members, employees and even to your organization to take this initiative.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Way more than there used to be, and since time hasn’t expanded accordingly, we’re always having to choose which ones to attend, and which ones to drop out of or ignore (much like our target audiences, when we put on our “day job” hats, do). Crowded mart, crowded mind. There are a ton of conferences that take place.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Thinking about our data-driven PR world, and while reflecting on The Hunger Games, I wanted to share key takeaways and lessons learned from the bold fictional characters: Develop relationships and network. With 24 tributes participating in the games, it’s important that you make connections (think about your colleagues and business partners).

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Reputation Us

JUNE 21, 2021

In the second of a two-part series , three more executives discuss social justice initiatives and how they impact their organization’s reputation. Editor’s note: Below you’ll find responses from three of the executives who were interviewed. Five for Six: Five Questions for Six Executives. Why and how? Every member. billion, Vancouver, Wash.):

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Reputation Us

JUNE 21, 2021

In the second of a two-part series , three more executives discuss social justice initiatives and how they impact their organization’s reputation. Editor’s note: Below you’ll find responses from three of the executives who were interviewed. Five for Six: Five Questions for Six Executives. Why and how? Every member. billion, Vancouver, Wash.):

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MaccaPR

JULY 16, 2014

Whether you''re aiming to engage with nanotechnology engineers, addiction medicine experts, electric utility consultants or Asian chefs, LinkedIn is a critical channel for lead-generating inbound marketing and engaging social media efforts. Yet we continue to see businesspeople misusing and abusing LinkedIn protocols.

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Bad Pitch Blog

JANUARY 16, 2010

Then I''ll tell you why I''m impressed by the ad. -- Going Guerrilla to Get the Gig Want to increase your professional network and as a result increase your opportunity to land that coveted interview or job? The secret: Facebook Advertising. Checking into Facebook a few days ago, I noticed the ad above. So here is his post.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Image: Lars Plougmann via Flickr, Creative Commons Really, if you just read through the comments, there’s your follow-up blog post… but since I promised you one, you’re getting one. ’ “I know why I’m here, how bout you?&# A Burke always, always keeps her promises! Interesting.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

I hadn’t actually spoken (voice-to-voice) with Gini before, so it was great to finally do so, as well as talk to Danny after ages and Joe after not-so-long. It helps you understand what a journalist feels like when you start receiving completely off-topic pitches. It helps you understand the medium.

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Cision

JUNE 2, 2017

How Do You Compete in a Digital World? So how do you keep an eye on your competition, keep ahead of the game and compete globally? In the past (I am talking pre-web), it was hard to know unless you asked your customers, poached a competitor’s employee or searched through their garbage bins.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid. “Be Baz Luhrmann, The Sunscreen Song, 1998. To that end, this year’s roundup is uh-mazing.

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MaccaPR

APRIL 2, 2015

You name it, it probably needs a visual! If you need further proof as to why every post should include a visual, picture this: as you scroll through your Twitter feed do you stop to read the tweets that are text only or do your eyes gravitate to those posts with photos? End of story." March 27, 2015.

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

You already know about them. You should know that IG allows around 30 per post and that you can delete them from the post and put new ones in immediately one time. You should know that IG allows around 30 per post and that you can delete them from the post and put new ones in immediately one time.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Image: anthony kelly via Flickr , Creative Commons Here you go. And once you’ve made your bed, be prepared to lie in it. Why: Apparently we’re not over the social media adoption curve after all, no matter what you might hear. Sometimes you just need to help people get simple tasks done.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 18, 2023

That’s because they don’t have to re-invent the wheel … and you don’t have to pay for the time and effort to do that. Business focus – Does the PR firm focus solely on business-to-business clients, business-to-consumer clients or business-to-government clients – or do they work with all three?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 8, 2011

Lemme tell ya, when you haven’t been in organized dance for a while, your body does not remember it well. You want me to do what?&# “ Passé , not pLassé, you idiot. It gets you into position for a turn, or at least, that’s what teach said,&# sez me. “What? sez Aging Body. demands A.B.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

My father – who held his father-in-law in such great esteem that, until the day the latter passed away, addressed him as “Sir&# – told me quite a bit I didn’t know. You see, during WWII, Indian servicemen were not just supporting the Allied powers, but also fighting their own: the Indian Nationalist Army.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 2, 2017

How Do You Compete in a Digital World? So how do you keep an eye on your competition, keep ahead of the game and compete globally? In the past (I am talking pre-web), it was hard to know unless you asked your customers, poached a competitor’s employee or searched through their garbage bins. The reply. “It

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In some ways, mindfulness is the antithesis of multitasking, though the concept is deeper: “When was the last time you sat quietly at your desk and did nothing but think? In some ways, mindfulness is the antithesis of multitasking, though the concept is deeper: “When was the last time you sat quietly at your desk and did nothing but think?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 5, 2019

For a savvy company with smart relationship driven marketers, there’s an opportunity to cut through a very big problem today: noise and clutter. It’s smart to use communications people to manage influencer marketing because they have a skill set in managing external relationships. 1) What departments are managing influencer marketing?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 27, 2011

I don’t know if we PR pros have a faulty gene or what, but we make it so easy for other professionals to beat up on us. If you haven’t read it yet, the background is that I used HARO to source a query for BNET. I can’t tell you how many pitches I received that were so bloviated, they would have made Alec Baldwin jealous.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Are You Happy? This is someone who is full of life, always has a good thing to say about other people (even when I don’t), and is as close to a human dose of Vitamin B as you can get.

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Cision

MAY 21, 2015

” Plus, if you haven’t got the time to read articles or watch videos during your busy day, podcasts are extremely accessible – listen during your commute, or even on the treadmill. .” Learn from business pros and owners just like you. But why is podcasting important to PR and marketing professionals?

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Buzzstream

JUNE 10, 2021

When you start a new site, there seem to be dozens of new tasks to take care of everyday. It’s tough, and it can burn you out. And you feel it especially when it comes to link building. Should you pay for links? Where do you find link building opportunities? Where do you find link building opportunities?

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Shel Israel followed up in our discussion last week about the automation (or lack thereof) of persuasion technologies and public relations by asking: Since you are in the business of building trust for clients, why are so many PR people not trusted by the media? In a click of a mouse, you can send millions of people an email.

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Tough Sledding

JANUARY 20, 2017

Before you go off on me for that statement, I know that TRUE PR professionals adhere to a code of ethics. In fact, if we’re doing our jobs well, we serve as journalists in residence, gathering facts and verifying them before release. But do PR people present the objective truth that professional journalists strive for?

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 25, 2010

I should have asked, “Which cause-related color do you associate October with?&# First , you can’t get away from how pink, and by association breast cancer, rule October when it comes to causes and awareness. I say “among many other things,&# because October can be associated with so many other colors.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Indeed, many of the hottest public relations agencies such as Manifest and the Romans, and large international networks such as Golin, Ketchum, and Weber Shandwick, proudly lead with earned media. Good media relations people do what all good influencer relations people are doing which is to engage in dialogue.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It is defined as the broadcasting of a message or messages simultaneously to a large audience, typically to people who do not have immediate access to the source (like government, multinational organization, or a large business with a huge number of people to disseminate a message). Many things are said to make the world go around.

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