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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. Accordingly, I write and publish a weekly blog post on Tuesdays like clockwork. was changing my profession.

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Just Write

Waxing UnLyrical

So when Kami asked me if I’d write a guest post for her, there was no way I’d say “no.” A few months later, WUL emerged in January of 2009. And I continue to guest blog whenever I can, because it’s just such a terrific thing to do, to stretch one’s writing and creative muscles. Just write.

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7 mostly free professional development ideas that PR and comms pros can start today

Sword and the Script

I find fiction reading really improves my writing because, in the course of being entertained, Im consuming examples of how published authors describe abstract concepts. Weekly writing If you are reading this you know I produce a weekly blog post. I started this blog in early 2009 after coming home from an overseas deployment.

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Be careful what you write, it may not remain confidential

Practical Law Construction

Fast forward 12 years, and once again an adjudicator’s decision-writing is in the spotlight. This looks to me like a fairly typical payment dispute, albeit that the parties are relying on the Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Act 2009 (ACT) (SOP Act). Beno Excavations Pty Ltd v Harlech Enterprises Pty Ltd.

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4 under-the-radar tips for finding a job on LinkedIn during COVID-19

Communications Conversations

Do it in a fun, narrative-type way instead of writing it like your the CEO of a financial services company. For example, here’s what I would write if I were looking for a job right now: “Hey, my name’s Arik. Then, in 2009, I started my own consultancy focused on social media marketing. Your story.

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

Melissa Agnes

I am the Planning Section Chief for our agency so I write all the incident action plans for planned and unplanned events which I really enjoy. Retrieved 2009-11-07. I am half time emergency manager and half time E911 coordinator so I am juggling multiple projects all the time but I enjoy it. References.

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10 Reasons to Attend IABC/DC Metro's Silver Inkwell Awards Gala

Waxing UnLyrical

Photo of the 2009 Silver Inkwell awards merriment courtesy Marvin T. We have some neat giveaways, including a couple of comps to GrowSmartBiz 2010 on November 5 ( disclosure: I’m speaking, and Network Solutions, one of the hosts, is my client ), and something very special from writing coach extraordinaire, Ann Wylie.