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The 10 most-read marketing, PR and comms stories on Sword and the Script in 2024

Sword and the Script

These ideas span marketing budgets, studies on tactics, and sadly, goodbye to a couple of beloved brands in marketing and PR This blog was started in 2009 as a tool for my own professional development. This blog was a means to figure it all out. Accordingly, I write and publish a weekly blog post on Tuesdays like clockwork.

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Save the Date: Join #PRStudChat on March 24th to discuss “The Future is Now: Landing Your First Job Like a PRo!”

Deirdre Breakenridge

In 2009, it began with a simple question asked by Angela Hernandez , then President of PRSSA at Central Michigan University (CMU). “ This was an important question and one that should be explored beyond one student or one blog post. What began as a simple blog, soon became a movement. About #PRStudChat. Is PR Right for me? ”

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Reflect and Project: How has Your #PR education Prepared You for Your Career?

Deirdre Breakenridge

She graduated in 2009 and then started teaching at Stockton University in New Jersey. A follow-up blog post by PR 2.0 This was an important question and one that should be explored beyond one student or one blog post. About Ai Zhang. Ai Zhang received her M.A. in Communication from Syracuse University, and her Ph.D.

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How Storytelling Connects Paid, Earned, and Owned Media

Onclusive

In December 2009, Forrester defined what it called the three new media options for interactive marketers: “paid, earned and owned.” In 2012, in response to the Altimeter group’s white paper on “converged media” last summer, Jeremiah Owyang took a stab on his blog at defining the new workflow for paid, earned, owned and shared media.

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Aligning Your PR Metrics With Business Goals & Executive KPIs

Onclusive

Drawing on our expertise in providing essential data to communications professionals since 2009 and best practices from our customers, we’ve outlined the 5 steps we’ve seen work for brands who have already crossed over or are in the process of doing so. How would you and your team make this mission-critical shift? Onclusive is here to help!

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8 lessons from 10 years of blogging

Communications Conversations

Last December, I celebrated my tenth year of blogging. I’m usually a sentimental guy, but apparently when it comes to my blog I lost that capacity. At any rate, I got around to reflecting on 10 years of blogging recently. I’ve written more than 1,200 blog posts in that timespan. See where it leads.

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Study: Big Companies Lag at Blogging, Social Media

Sword and the Script

I’ve read and blogged about previous reports produced by the UMASS Center for Marketing Research for several years now. Blogs as a tool of corporate influence is flat to declining. . It’s a very difficult perception to overcome because a blog is really, or ought to be, a news site. For example: 13 Statistics from an Inc.