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Symbolic Pacing in Communicative Leadership

Doctor Spin

According to Hackman and Wageman (2005), effective leadership often involves knowing when to shift roles—adapting between active intervention and more passive oversight. Please support my blog by sharing articles with other communications and marketing professionals. This balance between stepping back and stepping up is not arbitrary.

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

Editor’s note: This blog post merely touches on an interesting and important discussion I had with Dr. Tom on The Crisis Intelligence Podcast. By Dr. Thomas D. I invite you to listen to our full discussion here , or on iTunes or Stitcher. The issue of emergency management as a profession has been discussed and debated for several years.

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Google’s Decision Five Years Ago to Communicate Changes in China on Its Corporate Blog Signaled the Arrival of Owned Media.

Ishmael's Corner

And they communicated the China news on the corporate blog. The action gave street cred to corporate blogging and owned media as a whole. Of course, millions of blogs already existed when Google published its China post. In short, blogging wasn’t for serious stuff. Not at a press event. Not in a news release.

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Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Summary of monthly PR tech news: Critical Mention adds a media database; Talkwalker acquires Nielson Social; Watch out for fine print in media monitoring contracts As a term, earned media made a big splash in search trends in late 2004 or early 2005…and then interest waned. Over time, the digital community warmed to the term again.

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New Year’s Honours 2015

Stuart Bruce

Tom Murphy @tpemurphy – I first ‘knew’ Tom by reading his PR blog, but didn’t meet him until 2005 when we both spoke at the UK’s first ever PR social media conference in 2005. Against all the odds in 2005 he held onto his seat, mainly because he was such a highly regarded local MP.

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Home sweet home – return to blogging, address well known

PR Conversations

It has taken rather a while to unpack all the boxes, redecorate and invite you round for a house blog-warming party chez PR Conversations*. During our blogging hiatus, Judy Gombita has kept up the PR Conversations action via our hugely successful Twitter micro-blog.

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A Good Pitch to Business 2.0’s Blog

Bad Pitch Blog

We discussed the media relations lifecycle, briefly touching on blogs and how to pitch them—if at all. PITCH From: Dugan, Kevin Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:58 PM To: Schonfeld, Erick - Business 2.0 Subject: [B2 Blog]: Office Supplies can be fun? Just blogged it. It’s one of the golden rules for pitching blogs.