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The pace of AI announcements in PR software slows [PR Tech Sum 52]

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Propel rolls our new UX, AI plugins for email; Meltwater signs Microsoft for monitoring; Onclusive wrestles with a cyberattack and outage The last 60 days have been pretty slow in terms of news from the PR software vendor community. I skipped this monthly column in February because there wasn’t anything to write about. of its platform.

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Generative AI for PR professionals [Off Script. No. 49: Stephen Waddington]

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Tell us about your new book and why you decided to write it? Writing a book about a fast-moving area of technology has challenges. I’ve used them to extract the key arguments from a research paper, interrogate weaknesses in plans, areas of risk in financial documents and an activist perspective of reports.

Software 142
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Content analysis tool BuzzSumo adds journalist database for SMBs [PR tech sum no. 48]

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BuzzSumo edges into PR with journalist database for SMBs; Poppulo adds generative AI for internal comms; why don’t PR software vendors follow basic PR standard practices? I do a lot of work in fintech – and all those vendors have financial professionals on staff. Why do vendors in PR skip this part? Content picks PR ethics.

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Dealmaking Sizzles Again Among PR Software Providers and Here Comes Another Side Dish of Generative AI for Comms [PR Tech Sum]

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Recent earnings Separately, Meltwater (Oslo Børs: MWTR) also recently announced financial results for the third quarter ending, September 30, 2022. The product name and press release position the tool as a writing assistant of sorts, “to create initial draft frameworks for press releases and outreach communications.” to $109 million.

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11 Top Reasons to Write a Press Release for ESG

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It’s no wonder then that many businesses choose to write a press release about ESG news. Write a Press Release About 11 Newsworthy ESG Topics Forbes reports that businesses that invest in ESG outperform others and have higher market values. In addition, there is a major trend towards increasing climate financial reporting.

Writing 52
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What PR Technology Vendors Don’t Understand about Spreadsheets [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

The way to flip this around – from a messaging standpoint – is to focus on the number of PR people using PR software for media databases. If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: 9 Corporate Characteristics to Look for When Buying Public Relations Software. Using AI to shop coverage of surveys. Content picks. International media.

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Is this a nostalgic goodbye to the HARO brand? [PR Tech Sum 51]

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Yet, it’s important to pay attention to this stuff if your business buys PR software. You wind up seeing the products you used to love get watered down, stripped and mashed into other software in weird ways. For example, I just pulled up a HARO email as I write this and found a query looking for case studies on CRM implementations.

Brand 149