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Maxim Behar: Social media is the realm of free speech, which makes our world better

Maxim Behar

Maxim: First, I'm surprised there's such a day because every day should be a day of freedom of speech, especially now that we have social media. Everything has changed in the last twenty years, mostly thanks to social media. Now we have 4 billion publishers worldwide, which means 4 billion people who own media.

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Boosting Student Enrollment in Higher Education With Public Relations

The Hoyt Organization

Today’s higher education marketplace is exceedingly competitive and crowded. Your higher education institution has to show the characteristics and assets – tangible and intangible – that set it apart from the rest. Higher education institutions have unique PR needs compared to businesses or other organizations.

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Social Media for Healthcare: What’s The Potential?

Melissa Agnes

The other day I had a conversation with someone who made a statement about the healthcare industry not needing to be on social media because no one cares about the nurses’ birthdays and little useless memes (I’m SOOO paraphrasing here!). What’s the point of social media for healthcare?

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Yet another challenge for the modern day newspaper

Communications Conversations

I grew up reading newspapers. I say hopefully because, as we all know, the newspaper industry is in trouble. The challenges of running and maintaining a modern-day newspaper have been discussed at length the last few years. Competing with social media. And that, my friends, is not a way to sell newspapers.

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Maxim Behar for 24 Daily Newspaper: Politicians Tend to Underestimate their PR Consultants’ Experience Globally

Maxim Behar

The communication expert Maxim Behar was among the five professionals invited by the Bulgarian newspaper 24 Daily to share their views and describe how a political product is created and preserved. Just as it was in the past. Otherwise, the new political PR has nothing to do with what it was only ten years ago.

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How Social Media Blurs the Black and White in Education

Waxing UnLyrical

Defining appropriate relationships within education used to be simple. Comfortably seated with my iPad and iPhone on either side of me and my Macbook Pro serving as heating pad to my belly, I’m in bed conferencing with my students using powerful new social mediums. How Social Media Blurs the Black and White in Education.

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The clickbait media economy is toxic

Stephen Waddington

You can trace the news values of the tabloid media via the extremity of the UK Royal Family from Lady Diana Spencer in the 1990s to Meghan Markle more than thirty years later. Stories about people in the public eye such as celebrities, politicians and sportsmen and women sell newspapers. It’s a cesspit. There’s a paradox at play.

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