Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

And here we go…here are the benchmarks from 2017. 5) Thought leadership builds trust and drives sales. 82% of respondents to an Edelman study “said thought leadership has increased their trust in a vendor organization.”. Thought Leadership Influences Sales ). 11) Corporate reputation suffers with bad experiences. “82%

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Originally Published August 23, 2017; Updated August 9, 2021 ; Updated November 2023 PR is always evolving. Corporate Communications As companies grow, corporate communications become more important. Corporate communications regularly involves interaction with senior leaders and HR departments.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 8, 2017

Almost four in 10 respondents to a survey of corporate communications, marketing and industry leaders for CommunicationsMatch’s new PR and Communications Agency Search Report said they were looking to hire new agencies in 2017. A Guest Post by Simon Locke, Founder & CEO, CommunicationsMatch TM. With 5,000 U.S.

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Agency Survey Social Media SEO 223

Cision

MARCH 20, 2017

We expect the transaction to be completed by the second quarter of 2017, subject to approval by Capitol’s stockholders and other customary closing conditions. Once the transaction is complete, I will continue as CEO, and the rest of my leadership team will stay intact.

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Technology Data Big Data Measurement 227

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Our new owners immediately began to eliminate redundancies, as they say in corporate M&A. The 7 Best Performing Blog Posts in 2017. What is clearer was the sort of topics that attracted readers in 2017. Whatever reservations or prejudices corporations seem to have about blogs and blogging, that is melting.

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Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 82

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Corp comm departments are chronically underfunded and lower on the corporate priorities list. Cision shakes up C-suite again Cision has swapped out its leadership again. Leadership shuffles and company restructuring often followed soon after these transactions. The cross-sell and upsell of new tools is harder than most expect.

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Software Marketing Leadership B2B 182

PRSay

MARCH 9, 2017

Do you really want someone known as @shroomy0021 managing your corporate communications? Best of all, the leadership and legal team can read the language on a sunny day, long before the documents will ever get used. Within minutes he posted a video to the web. On average, it takes 10 minutes to make the edits and issue the release.

Crisis Communications 160

Crisis Communications Social Media Crisis Communications 160

Cision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

This has resulted in it receiving a backseat to paid media in most corporate budgets. percent in 2017, hitting $83 billion.” Sometimes, it feels like paid media budgets are invincible. Despite Facebook’s measurement problems , Google’s ad controversy and $7B of fraud allegations, the dollars keep flowing.

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Cision

JUNE 15, 2017

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. HPRA provides year-round programs, professional development seminars and networking among other services. .

Automotive 245

Automotive Resources Consumer Strategy 245

MaccaPR

MAY 11, 2017

Although more and more women are taking leadership positions ( the number of female CEOs is increasing ), the majority of business leaders tend to be male (the top 27 highest paid CEOs in Minnesota are all men, for example). Here are takeaways for MaccaPR blog readers on leadership styles and business decision making. May 5, 2017.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

WordPress founder and current Automattic chief Matthew Mullenweg pens a popular long-running blog (his blogging predates WordPress by 15+ years) where he covers an array of topics from business ( The Importance of Meeting in Person ) to fun/personal ( What’s in my Bag 2017 Edition ). CEOs can let their personalities show.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Change your results,” said business strategist and leadership development expert AmyK Hutchens. The author and think tank facilitator spoke on “Igniting Brilliance in Your Leadership” as part of Monday morning’s General Session at the PRSA 2017 International Conference in Boston. “As How might we judge great leadership?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 6, 2018

The same applies to a corporation looking to add PR help in-house, or alternatively, doing a cost-benefit analysis of bringing on outside help from an agency. I’ve reviewed this salary survey and others , for many years including detailed looks at the 2016 and 2017 results. In 2017 PRWeek reported the 2017 median as $91k.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Executives seek to amplify their own voices through “thought leadership.”. According to the 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer , CEO credibility fell 12 points from the previous year, to 37 percent. Customers want to know more about the people who lead the companies they patronize.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 23, 2019

But a new survey out of the Center for Public Relations at USC Annenberg shows that isn’t happening among some PR pros and corporate communicators. For example, a study conducted by Edelman in 2018 found “nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of consumers around the world now buy on belief, a remarkable increase of 13 points since 2017.”.

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Technology Study Communications Survey 150

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 10, 2017

The company published its findings in an impressive 60-page report called the 2017 State of the Blogging Industry. I found clear lessons for corporate blogging , which I’ve weaved into the summary of the study below. Don’t miss these posts: B2B Customers Want Thought Leadership. Lackluster Consistency and Frequency.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 18, 2018

Especially in today’s atmosphere of increasing corporate activism , a company that takes a stand on a controversial topic can create lasting bonds with customers – even if it alienates others in the process. PR is a primary tool for corporate speech on social issues. Storytelling brings brands to life. PR helps differentiate.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Still, companies are dragging their feet in this aspect of corporate communications. In 2017 McKinsey found that only 17% of companies report investing in some form internal communications technology. In 2017 McKinsey found that only 17% of companies report investing in some form internal communications technology.

International 147

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Brad MacAfee will be presenting a professional development session on “ Innovation in Leadership ” on Monday, Oct. 9 at PRSA’s 2017 International Conference in Boston. There were challenges: limited client visibility and minimal access to leadership. The year was 1992. I had to pay my dues before I could express my opinions.

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Financial Employee Leadership Training 148

PRSay

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Here are some highlights from three professional development sessions at the PRSA 2017 International Conference in Boston on Oct. 3 Ways to Maintain Control of Your Corporate Social Media. Corporate leaders need to guide their workers on how they should (and should not) represent their brand their online. Prepare in advance.

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Stuart Bruce

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Launched on International Women’s Day in March 2017 it was meant to symbolise the power of women in leadership. It appears that State Street thinks it’s great to talk about how brilliant women are in leadership, but not brilliant enough to put its money where its mouth is and pay them as much as men.

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Case Study Crisis Communications Corporate Leadership 99

Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Like previous corporate booms it’s characterised by a rush of talent with varying levels of credentials, seeking to capitalise on the demand for professional services. Corporate websites are awash with net zero targets, but you’ll rarely find data or a plan, itself an indication that business doesn’t wholly understand the issue.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

To top it off, Tess has been selected a Fellow through two distinctive leadership programs — as a RISE Fellow in the New Sector Alliance and as a Josie R. Johnson Leadership Academy Fellow through the African American Leadership Forum. Most recently, she went out on her own, establishing May Ott Communications in 2017.

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PRSay

MAY 24, 2021

Already decimated by staff reductions, many print and broadcast newsrooms have been acquired by large corporations that are often more interested in online clicks and monetizing news than in factual reporting, Todd said.

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Stern + Associates

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Principal Investigator at the Narang Lab at UCLA who was named an MIT Tech Review Top Innovator and to the Forbes 2017 “30 Under 30” list, Narang leads an interdisciplinary group that connects different branches of the physical sciences to uncover groundbreaking discoveries that will fundamentally alter the future of technology.

Technology 133

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This will contribute to even more noise, and it will make high-quality corporate content both more appreciated and harder to find.”. There is a new corporate scenario that directly impacts all audiences and communication channels. Rather, AI will be used to create a lot of filler and SEO bait. Luciana Lima , Head of PR, Reserve Parks.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Mitsubishi’s history of scandals suggested an unethical corporate culture. By July 2017, a little more than a year after that transaction, the Renault-Nissan group had become the largest global car manufacturer, ahead of Toyota and Volkswagen.

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PRSay

MARCH 19, 2018

Gordon , executive chairman of Ingredion Incorporated; and Deborah Wright , a board member at Voya Financial, Time Warner and Citigroup — discussed their excitement for a corporate world populated by inclusion-focused work cultures, while also outlining some of the new pressures and obligations that come with D&I.

Ethics 127

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PRSay

APRIL 6, 2018

Corporate malfeasance. From a crisis management point of view, 2017 had it all! Donnelly authored the opening chapter in a new e-book, “The New Rules of Crisis Management – Issues & Crisis Planning and Response in the Digital Age,” published by RockDove, with distribution support from PRSA Corporate Development. Wells Fargo.

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Crisis Management Crisis Airlines Viral 124

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

e) Championing a customer-centric corporate culture. In January, a survey of communications professionals found most felt the following concepts would be more important to PR in 2018: 79% of respondents said storytelling; 71% said content marketing; and 67% said thought leadership. 4) The composition of marketing spending is changing.

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Survey Marketing B2B Content Marketing 107

Cision

JUNE 1, 2017

This can be found from the smallest agencies to the largest corporations. However, we still have unbalanced gender representation at top levels of leadership within the traditional agency structure. GD: This is a tough question because, even though it’s 2017 and we should be equal, we’re not quite there.

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Sports Agency Creativity Industry 245

Institute for Public Relations

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Researchers have investigated how corporate social responsibility (Duthler & Dhanesh, 2018); leadership (Meng & Berger, 2019); employee voice (Ruck, Welch, & Menara, 2017); and … Continue reading How Internal Communications Needs Differ by Industry →

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PRSay

JUNE 9, 2021

“A ruling against Publicis could set a precedent that should make advertising and public relations agencies more cautious and concerned about [living up to their] advertising ethics and corporate responsibility,” said David Clark, a partner at the Clark Law Office in Lansing, Mich.

Crisis 166

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I recently saw new research showing that brand purpose is even more important to B2B buyers than to B2C customers, which is surprising but probably makes sense given the longer selling cycle and relationship to corporate reputation. 2017: One Prediction Each for PR, Content Marketing and Social Media. This was up from 50% in 2020.”.

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Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 216

Critical Mention

JANUARY 3, 2019

I started reading some very interesting papers and books about the psychological forces come into play in tough corporate and external environments. was returned in January 2017—making it a ten-year process through the US and UK criminal justice systems. And my passport, along with other civil rights (voting, jury duty, etc.)

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PRSay

APRIL 21, 2017

I didn’t work for a large corporation with big budgets and grand campaigns. The real answer: to further your leadership ability. I had just started my consulting business and thought it would give me credibility. I wasn’t sure I mustered the same level of skill as my esteemed agency peers. So why get your APR? Because I said so.

Ethics 97

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This covered the glass ceiling, pay gap, lack of mentorship opportunities and stereotyped expectations of leadership style, where leadership is usually seen as a masculine trait. Offices are predominantly structured around masculine way of working and doing things and around masculine behavioural and leadership patterns.

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Government Education Print Ethics 103