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Yvonne Lorie, the founder of ReFresh PR and a recipient of the 2013 HPRA Premio PR Achievement Award, has been elected president of the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) national board for 2017. What are some of the key components of a successful strategic communication strategy? It is complex, yet simple.
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Froke, who is based in Philadelphia, has been the Stylebook’s lead editor since 2016 and a member of the Stylebook team since 2013; she has worked for The Associated Press in various editorial roles since 1984. Writing in AP style means they’re speaking the language of the people they are pitching.
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. – Richard Toohey, writing in Public Relations Quarterly , Fall 1972. If you can conclude anything from the passage above it’s the quality of problems for communication professionals has changed in the last 40 years. Yet one problem remains evergreen: how to best communicate our message to our publics.
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SHIFT Communications, the premiere data-driven PR agency , announced today the release of the Heuristic And Recurrent Ontological Lexicon Deep-learner, or HAROLD, the world’s first artificially intelligent (AI), cloud-based PR employee. .” 2013: SHIFT Branded Coffee Shops. Of course, this is an April Fool’s joke.
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And they communicated the China news on the corporate blog. ” Still, corporations remained leery of the concept, leaving blogging to those wacky guys in marketing to write about new vegan dishes in the company cafeteria. Not at a press event. Not in a news release. In short, blogging wasn’t for serious stuff. I don’t think so.
one January morning in 2013. Or maybe one about the time a manager insisted that you return to the office at midnight to add footnotes that no one ever mentioned to a memo that you didn’t write. Not so long ago, the world of communication and media relations was both widely misunderstood and seriously undervalued.
This is a guest post by Jeremy Bamidele , a brand strategist, publicist and adjunct professor at Rancho Santiago Community College District. Jeremy is also a nationally syndicated journalist and writes for Huffington Post. The visual nature of television may be serving as a buffer to the greater decline faced by print media.
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And this way, the PR industry becomes a partner in communicating truthful and factual information.” It should be taught along with writing, in all PR classes. In our “always-on” world of constant communication, attention is the scarcest and most valuable commodity. Tom Foremski, Publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher.
The great Brian Solis, who I had the pleasure of seeing live in 2013 as keynote speaker at the PRSA’s International Conference, recently published this article on LinkedIn about creative storytelling. Even though this is a well-known idiom, every time I hear or see it I picture the proverbial tire hitting asphalt. I love a good idiom.
Looking at traffic over a 12-month period that covered August 2013 thru July 2014, you can see nine of the top 10 posts for this period were published prior to August 2013 with the vast majority of this recent traffic coming from organic search or what we like to term “earned search:”. Or write about it.
Right now, the biggest focus is on writing and presenting content for mobile consumption. As of 2013, 3 percent of the U.S. The FCC is investing in providing access to communities that do not have broadband. If a flaw does make it through the processes, their communication and PR teams might have more notice.
Consider how much time and money you and your team spend performing repetitive marketing tasks such as: creating social media updates, writing blog posts, personalizing emails, developing advertising copy, managing digital media spend, optimizing web pages, testing creatives, and extracting insights from analytics. Anything is possible now.
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Some of her clients include PayPal and Cox Communications and she has previously guest published for sites including CNN and Mashable. Deirdre Breakenridge is the CEO at Pure Performance Communications. When she’s not writing you can find her at music festivals, hiking or snowboarding. Steve Farnsworth. Steveology.
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When I was writing about appliances in Louisville, GE was starting to push induction cooktops. I’m not writing as much as I used to, but I’ve been really proud of the work my staff has been doing since I joined IndustryWeek. I didn’t write any of them, and in most cases, my edits were minimal.
When I came home in 2013, I did not have a business model or consultancy practice. While I started engaging on social media channels, I realized that blogging and writing about my experiences would be central to sharing my story. I was just enjoying the opportunity to write and speak about my experiences.
While it’s technically not my first speaking engagement for 2013 (though it is the first public one), I am anticipating xPotomac (Feb. For example, Ann Wylie influences me on the topic of writing and communication, because I’ve met her (I adore her), she has proved that she owns her craft, and therefore, I trust her.
For a fee, the publication will write stories for companies to distribute on the platforms of their choice. Might Fortune write content for Johnson & Johnson to be published on The Huffington Post? On June 20, 2013, The Wall Street Journal tried its hand at BuzzFeed storytelling. That would be rich. Can you say non-sequitur?
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