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Pitching Kit: Cision’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide PR Kit

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“If you want your pitch to be noticed in a flood of product releases, know when to send it,” writes Anna Marevska in our recent blog post How to Pitch Holiday Gift Guide Editors. Issue Date: 11/22/2016. News: 8/24/2016. Features: 8/24/2016. Advertising: 8/24/2016. Issue Date: 11/15/2016.

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How the Associated Press Fights Fake News on Facebook…and Everywhere Else

Cision

Carvin is the point person in a partnership that began in December 2016 between the AP and Facebook that illustrates some of the efforts the AP is undertaking to scrub misinformation from readers’ views. Fake news is not strictly new,” Carvin said. In this case, Carvin uses “everyone” to mean both journalists and the public.

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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. Libby is a free app that connects to my local public library system (and probably yours too). I do carve out a little time to read books at night.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer states that out of all the people they surveyed, over 60% trust Google rather than news outlets. Google search algorithm updates in 2016 , for example, included a number of integrated changes in order to unify mobile SEO and local SEO along with paid and organic results.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” They write: “Facebook’s IPO is a flop.” Writing recently in Public Relations Tactics, John J. Identifying a PR crisis.

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The Top 50 #GoldenGlobes Social Influencers on Twitter

Cision

The following list was pulled during the 73rd Annual Golden Globes on January 10, 2016. BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) January 11, 2016. Perez Hilton (@PerezHilton) January 11, 2016. VOGUE.CO.UK (@BritishVogue) January 11, 2016. Nina Garcia (@ninagarcia) January 11, 2016. Nerdist (@nerdist) January 11, 2016.

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2016: The Year of the (Marketing) Monkey

Shift Communications

2016 in the Chinese Zodiac is the year of the Monkey, whose attributes include being “smart, quick witted, frank, optimistic, ambitious and adventurous.” Moving forward using “data” will not be enough, just as writing a few tweets and blog posts didn’t mean implementing real strategies back in the early days of social. Derek Lyons.