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All Kids Dumb Enough to Get Kicked-Out of Harvard

David PR Group

My phone was blowing up earlier this week with colleagues and friends asking my opinion of the 10 Harvard students who had their admissions canceled after posting offensive memes on social media. The story broke in the Harvard Crimson and soon went viral. Social media #fail of the year.”. Again, probably higher.).

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Who Were The PR Winners And Losers of 2017?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It’s not alone among social media companies, but the brand has suffered from its casual and misleading response to the situation. But the real wreck came when engineer Susan Fowler penned a scathing account of her year working there. The cultural impact was huge, yet the United crisis also shows business resilience.

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A Pocket Square Is Not Your Reputation

David PR Group

Before you go on another shopping spree for office attire, please check out some basic online advice that overrules a delightful pocket square: Monitor online results – search engines, online reviews and the dark web. Businesses also need to implement social media policies for all employees.

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30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020

Sword and the Script

One-person companies no longer rely solely on their own Facebook page, but on a clever mix of press work and content that they place on their social media channels and websites. 11) Privacy regs bring back the basics. The consumer privacy battle will rage on, and marketers will be affected by new data privacy regulations.

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A Step-By-Step Guide on How To Create Your Own Social Media Quiz

PR 20/20

JP is the Content Marketing Director & Audio/Visual Technician/Engineer of Interact , a place for creating entertaining and engaging quizzes that generate email leads. Take a moment and try to surmise one of the more popular types of content that you’d normally see on social media. Now we’re onto something.

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Want to Double Your Views? Repost Content in Full on These 4 Channels

Contently - Strategy

As social algorithms send less and less referral traffic to publisher sites, it’s worth remembering: email continues to beat social media in terms of engagement and accessibility. Recent controversy aside, Facebook remains the largest social media platform, with more than 2.8 Not convinced?

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Google Earns Positive PR On Diversity – Under Duress

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Simmering issues of diversity and gender discrimination in the tech industry were spotlighted this week when an internal memo penned by a Google engineer went viral, causing a public relations earthquake for the company. On average men and women biologically differ in many ways.”

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