Sword and the Script

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the course of my career, I’ve lived through two acquisitions, contributed to internal and external comms for several more, and at different organizations, and even did a divestiture. In 2017, the company acquired a then buzzy new tool called BuzzSumo, which is also based in the U.K.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 4, 2018

At the same time, engagement levels are plummeting on Facebook, down by 50% since 2017, according to some reports: We know engagement levels are down (for brands) on Twitter, too (and have been for years). Yes, let’s look at Instagram. ” Do I start to adjust expectations with internal stakeholders re: engagements?

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

By 2017, he’d built a billion-dollar brand. And in 2017, Unilever bought it for $1 billion. Every purchase, TV commercial, customer service call, and tweet contributes to the relationship, whether good or bad. In 2010, Michael Dubin used to work at Time Inc., doing improv comedy on the side. A model for success.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This month was no exception, and perhaps because many of the launches were timed with annual PRSA International Conference which wrapped up recently. The feature enables “enterprises to analyze customer conversations from owned data sources” and let the Talkwalker AI engine analyze it. What sort of data? Why would you do this?

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

A North Minneapolis native, Tess excelled in her journalism program at Drake University, during which she presided over the Coalition of Black Students and interned in business development with The Integer Group and in marketing/group sales with Iowa Events Center.

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PR 20/20

AUGUST 22, 2017

Editor's note: This post was originally published in May 2013, and was updated in August 2017 per latest best practices and data. HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound Marketing annual report asked marketing teams about their top challenges. Why do we need a blog? What is the ROI of social? What if we get sued? Who will own this?

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 27, 2017

Chancellor Jim (@ChancellorJim) April 5, 2017. Who says the CEO can’t also handle customer service? In fact, he often serves as a “customer service” rep of sorts for UW-EC. Now, you might say, my executives don’t have time to handle customer complaints. Chancellor@uwec.edu [link].

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Internal comms takes center comms stage in hybrid work. With the new dynamics of hybrid work established worldwide, Public Relations – as a professional who builds and consolidates relationships – becomes an even more strategic professional regarding the internal audience. Bill Byrne , Managing Director, Remedy Public Relations.

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Mindful Marketing

JULY 16, 2022

reported that between 2017 and 2021, hundreds of EY employees acted unfairly either by using an ill-gotten answer key for an ethics component of the CPA exam or by cheating on ethics tests required for continuing education. The Security and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) As punishment for the systematic abuses, the S.E.C.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The report provides an international perspective on the challenges facing the PR business. A study called the Velvet Ghetto commissioned by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) first called out the gender pay gap in the PR profession in 1986. ICCO consists of national PR trade associations in 55 countries.

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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As Paul Roetzer ( @paulroetzer ) states in Chapter 8 of The Marketing Performance Blueprint : “Every marketing plan should start with an honest internal marketing assessment. These metrics may be both internally facing (like efficiency) and business oriented (like leads closed or the number of campaigns managed). Customer service?

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Companies that successfully communicate with internal and external stakeholders when crisis hits have the highest chance of long-term success. When companies communicate openly, honestly, and clearly, they earn the trust of their customers. The 2017 United Express Flight 3411 incident. Personnel in charge of security.

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PR Conversations

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Wells Fargo not only publishes great content on its Wells Fargo Stories site, but when I toured their offices, I discovered they are doing some really neat things in terms of storytelling, especially with their internal communications. She also serves as the 2015-2017 PRSSA national faculty adviser. And then there is USAA.

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Stuart Bruce

JULY 23, 2017

The first page of Simply Measured’s The State of Social Media 2017 also has gobblydegook like “social media is a foundational marketing strategy”. No matter how good the customer service team is it would be ridiculous to expect them to handle social media for internal communications. Gif of seagull poo from Giphy.

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Cision

APRIL 18, 2016

Many of the sessions at F8 emphasized design for the mobile web (differentiating from mobile apps) and emphasized optimization for international users (specifically the minuscule load times of the Instant Articles product). What could be more customer service-y than an unsolicited autoresponse? Instant Replies (Autoresponders).

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 10, 2017

This is a summary of a speech I gave at the CIPR 2017 Graduation Ceremony. Welcome to Ketchum and thank you for the invitation to host the 2017 CIPR Graduation Ceremony. Every aspect of an organisation is becoming social, from customer service to marketing; and from product development to sales.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

I shared a first draft of this article as a Google Document via Twitter; with MA PR students at Newcastle University; and with colleagues at Ketchum on an international webinar. I’ve also published a blog of key international events in the public relations calendar as part of the project. 16 Artificial intelligence normalised.

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