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International Conference Preview: 5 Questions With Journalist Laura Ling

PRSay

20, Ling will share more of her story as a keynote speaker at the PRSA 2019 International Conference in San Diego. In an interview with PRsay, Ling offered her thoughts on news readership, storytelling platforms and appreciating the little things in life. Inaccurate tweets can spread like wildfire with dangerous implications.

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PR trends & predictions

Prakkypedia

It notes that internal communications have become a new priority since the pandemic, and it’s no surprise given that more people were working from home than ever before. The pandemic also saw a heightened sense of anxiety, team cohesion and engagement came to the fore, thus internal comms rose in prominence.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. Should companies hire public relations people internally?

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Maxim Behar for Bulgarian National Television: Lessons Learned from Facebook outage

Maxim Behar

Maxim Behar commented on the large-scale global collapse of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp which lasted more than 6 hours, how dependent we are on social media, can we count on them, who are the affected and more on the topic in the show The World and We on Bulgarian National Television with the anchor Joanna Levieva-Sawyer.

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Deborah Weinstein on the Challenges Confronting PR and Digital Marketing

Flack's Revenge

It is the latest in my series of interviews with industry experts (see this post , which sets the stage). Far too many brands delegate, and relegate social strategy development and implementation to their ad agencies, internal marketing departments, even their PR intern, with a mandate to replicate, share, and spread commercial messages.

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PR Advice For Recent PR Grads

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For a newcomer who wants to be more fluent in the language of agencies and PR professionals, reading up on the PR world will help in interviews and networking approachs. It may be best to set your Facebook and Instagram to private while you are actively interviewing. Become a virtual intern.

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

Maxim Behar

But you can't buy Facebook, Instagram, or another social media platform. for "internal pressure within the media itself," 66.2% for "external pressure," and 25% "neither internal nor external pressure, my colleague is censoring themself." Maxim: On Facebook, in most cases, you can. Watch the full interview here.