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[Guest Post] Five Ways to Ensure Your Next Speaker Lineup Includes More Than Just Middle Aged White Guys

Deirdre Breakenridge

Since 2007, 57 keynote speakers at Apple’s Worldwide Development conference have been men. When advertising for your event, Milstein suggests stating that you’re seeking new voices, and looking for people with “advice and expertise to share” as opposed to “experts.” How Many Women Has Apple Put On The WWDC Keynote Stage Since 2007?”

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Did we blow our chance to change the marketing world with social media?

Communications Conversations

After all, consider the following: MySpace was the dominant social media platform in 2007. Twitter looked like this in 2007–and the President of the U.S. On the brand side, social media has become just another advertising vehicle, in many ways. YouTube was just two years old! Social media is so frequently used to attack.

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What’s Trending for 2023?

PRSay

However, smart organizations will continue to advertise and to engage in media relations, despite a downturn in the economy. If the communications industry learned anything else from the Great Recession of 2007–2009, then it was the importance of maintaining brand awareness through the tough times. Reevaluating Twitter.

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How This PRSSA Chapter Virtually Connected Recruiters With Students for Annual Career Fair

PRSay

The City College of New York’s (CCNY) advertising/PR program and our PRSSA Chapter faced a parallel challenge this month in recreating our annual Building Bridges career fair to connect talented ad and PR majors with agency recruiters seeking a pipeline of diverse talent for jobs and internships.

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What Shadow Banking Means for Your Financial Services PR Program

Shift Communications

According to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the market share of shadow banks in the mortgage market nearly tripled from 2007-2015. Shadow bank origination shares as a fraction of total originations for all mortgages in HMDA between 2007 and 2015.

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Why a Social Credit Score is an Empty and Dangerous Notion

Waxing UnLyrical

Back in 2007, my co-founder, David, and I kicked around ideas fairly similar to what Klout does today. The economic model of these rating services is both simple and clever: be a social ad network that enrolls users through a social game and engages those offering the best CPI to advertisers. I’m glad we didn’t let it.

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Don’t Miss The Gen-Z Driven PR Opportunity In 2024

The Hoyt Organization

Understanding The Gen-Z Market Advertisers and marketers will need a unique approach to capture the attention of this tech-savvy audience. The lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic changed their social behavior and interactions, and the great recession between 2007 and 2009 impacted their views of money and fiscal responsibility.