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The Power of Local Knowledge: Why Product Development Should Start with Listening to Your Community

Stern + Associates

The companies that adopt these proactive measures are then able to ensure they are not unintentionally propagating bias.” We need hyper-inclusive involvement of all community members — disrupting who gets to be at the table, who’s being educated and how they’re being educated, if we’re actually going to fight bias.”

Local 101
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Recap Part I: #PRStudChat Discusses PR Education & Learning

Deirdre Breakenridge

After all, I am an educator, right? Compared to many other seasoned educators, I still have a lot to learn and reflect upon. Since graduate school, a question that has been in my mind is whether or not undergraduate PR education is teaching students the necessary skill- and knowledge-set to succeed in today’s job market.

Education 150
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Reflexivity Memo on PR practice from craft skills to education. A case of ‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’.

PR Conversations

Do you have a view of why so many PR practitioners focus on craft skills and are reluctant to educate themselves despite many decades of body of knowledge creation? Are practitioners themselves to blame for this, or does the blame lie more with the research and education establishments? Opportunity or opportunism?

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The Top 10 PR Measurement Atrocities and how to Avoid them

Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

Making up Metrics I was recently on a conference call with a respected nternational measurement organization and a new member of the group was explaining how she’d been pressured by her CEO to put a dollar value on her efforts. “So There should be a special place in measurement hell for people who make up bad metrics.

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How PR measurement can improve public health

Stuart Bruce

It claims that “many public health improvement programmes are not measured by whether they are cost effective, or even if they work at all.”. Ironically, for a report about the need to improve measurement, it uses limited metrics by focusing entirely on just one – ‘cost effectiveness’.

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Homegrown: 5 Local Marketing Tactics for Small Businesses

Beyond PR

Thanks to a trifecta of trends, local marketing strategies offer today’s entrepreneur more opportunities than ever. If you are looking to draw in more customers and establish loyalty for generations to come, your local marketing efforts must be prioritized. Optimize your local search listings. Host a contest.

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PR Tips and Hacks for a Small Business

The Proactive Report

That depends on whether you are a local business or have clients and customers all over. Local business networking still thrives on personal connections – Join the Chamber of Commerce and other relevant groups. Alignable has local groups you can connect with. Look for local groups on MeetUp. Education on a topic.