5W PR

MARCH 16, 2025

Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome, combined with increasing privacy regulations and growing consumer demand for data protection, signals the end of an era in digital advertising. These approaches focus on maintaining advertising effectiveness while prioritizing user privacy.

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Ronn Torossian

AUGUST 7, 2018

With midterm elections looming, the folks at Facebook are still desperately trying to reverse a cataclysmic loss of consumer trust thanks to a massive privacy scandal that revealed a myriad of issues with the social media giant. In a recent report, Facebook is said to have … READ MORE ».

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5W PR

MARCH 13, 2025

Major brands like Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, and Facebook have weathered significant PR storms, leaving behind valuable lessons for today’s business leaders. Tech Sector: Speed and Transparency in the Digital Age Technology companies face unique challenges during crises, particularly regarding data privacy and security.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 8, 2021

At a time of huge partisan polarization, one thing that brings people together, it seems, is resentment of Big Tech, especially the Big Four — Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon. Sometimes they do make positive changes, like Facebook’s plan to combat misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. The news isn’t all bad.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 13, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg’s trip to Washington this week marked a high-stakes PR challenge for the Facebook CEO as well as its brand. After months of negative coverage following the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal and a series of half-hearted public responses, Zuck faced the music. JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Today I share Deborah Weinstein’s answers to questions about the challenges confronting social media marketing and digital communications. Is Facebook still a good place to invest in social media marketing? And Facebook, long the Goliath in the social world may be cruising for a bruising. What comes after social media?

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

And, I’m sure we’ll see tons of posts this week about how Ello is going to be the next Facebook. Through all this testing and “early adopting” (although, to Jeremy Pepper’s point , testing new platforms is something you owe to your clients), Ello isn’t going to be the new Facebook.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Like Stuff On Facebook? Apparently there are four ways marketers and brands can turn your Facebook activity into ads, as Ad Age tells us: 1. When you check in to a place on Facebook; 3.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Social media has reshaped how organizations communicate with their audiences, creating opportunities for authentic brand storytelling through the voices of employees. Unlike traditional corporate communications, employee advocacy provides authentic perspectives that resonate with audiences on a personal level.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 21, 2018

Privacy regulations. The GDPR privacy rule officially blazed into our lives in May. And it won’t be the last data protection or privacy regulation we’ll see. In July, the state of California passed its own data privacy regulations called CCPA , and other states are sure to follow. 5 tech PR trends.

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Axia PR

JUNE 3, 2023

Data privacy is a huge concern for many companies. From TikTok and Facebook facing record-breaking fines to Airbnb admitting its “listening” for parties during big holiday weekends, companies are walking a treacherous road. The future of PR may well hang in the balance.

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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The Power of Finding New Ways To Communicate The Same Important Message. Analyzing the CDC’s Crisis Communication In U.S. TCIP #017 – Exploring Garden Grove Fire Department’s Social Media and Electronic Communication in Crisis with Thanh Nguyen. Is government paying enough attention to privacy in its mobile apps?

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PRSay

MARCH 17, 2021

For more insights on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act , PRsay reached out to Capitol Hill veteran India McKinney, director of federal affairs at the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit digital rights group based in San Francisco. Everybody’s heard of Google and Facebook. Facebook is a multibillion-dollar company.

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Cision

MAY 18, 2017

Profile-Centric Social Networks: Facebook and LinkedIn represent social networks that both attempt to limit people to one user profile per person while creating separate business pages for companies to maintain. Where these two networks excel, though, is that they all have communities that are open for the public to join and engage.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2018

A crisis situation presents abundant challenges for public relations and business leaders, not the least of which are the critical first communications. Facebook dodges blame. Facebook’s response to the recent data privacy controversy was immediate – so immediate that it happened the day before the scandal broke.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Stuart Bruce speaking at the IATA Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age conference. (c) This morning I gave a keynote at the global ‘Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age’ conference in Istanbul. I won’t be predicting that Whisper is the next Twitter or Snapchat is the next Facebook. c) Donald Steel.

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PR in High Definition

APRIL 25, 2018

There’s no doubt that the recent revelations surrounding Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have brought the notion of personal privacy under even greater scrutiny. Do the same privacy rules apply? For many companies, this notion of privacy may not just be a personal matter but also a business one. Assess the risks.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

But what if you could connect with your doctor using social media ; asking for advice via a quick Twitter or Facebook message? As a parent you feel relieved, empowered and thankful to have a doctor that is open to communicating with her patients online , instead of feeling left to blindly search on WebMD.com.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 14, 2018

But this week, after Google skipped earlier Congressional hearings involving his peers at Twitter and Facebook, Pichai had his moment under pressure. ” Sometimes it’s not just about top-flight communications strategy and crisis management, but good luck and even better timing.

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Rock the Status Quo

MARCH 30, 2015

View image | gettyimages.com Media coverage abounds related to last week’s 2015 F8 Developer Conference – an event for app developers put on by Facebook. Facebook native video. PLUS Facebook reach (minimal as it might be). PLUS Facebook reach (minimal as it might be). Read on for the dets!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 6, 2018

The online communications revolution has unleashed a Pandora’s box of disturbing problems that threaten privacy, democracy — even the concept of objective truth. Facebook & Twitter. For well over a year, Facebook has been trying various tools to curb the spread of misinformation. Government regulation?

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 1, 2021

It sets out the urgent need for organisations to act on issues related to CDR and provides a framework to support leaders with planning and communication. For example, Facebook is under investigation for an alleged breach of EU privacy laws after the personal information of 533 million users was shared online.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 13, 2011

A couple of days ago, The Daily Beast broke a story about Facebook spreading a smear campaign against Google. According to the article, Mark Zuckerberg and his team hired Burson-Marsteller , a well-known public relations firm, to plant negative stories accusing Google of being careless with Gmail users privacy.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Back in 2014, I made a comment on Facebook about the movie Dear White People. But I do believe LinkedIn is important, and it may be beneficial for me to have at least one of the big accounts (Twitter, Facebook) for professional use. A Guest Post By Keke Ellis, American University Grad Student, FEEL Blog Post Winner. That inspires me.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 17, 2019

With the data privacy scandal that rocked Facebook in 2018, transparency became a critical social media trend this year. Major networks such as Facebook or Instagram have already launched a new feature that comes in the form of private and closed groups. Transparency. Closed groups. Conversational commerce. Organize quizzes.

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 29, 2020

My wife shared a post on Facebook with me last night. Privacy cedes to massive tech onboarding The last two weeks have seen a massive technology onboarding across society. Privacy concerns have evaporated. Work has gone virtual and in our personal lives people have sought to connect by building virtual communities.

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Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Digital communication has become a war zone. Even the language that we’ve adopted to describe modern corporate communication has military overtones such as disintermediation, rebuttal, hyper targeting and media weaponisation. We’re only starting to understand the impact of technology platforms such as Google and Facebook on society.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 28, 2018

2017 also brought a reckoning of sorts for Facebook. Within weeks, however, Facebook would own up to the fact that it sold more than $100,000 in ads to Russian accounts, and that foreign actors used its feed to spread false and divisive stories about candidates and issues. appeared first on Crenshaw Communications. The Losers.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 11, 2022

Between cookies going away; the sector’s identity crisis; new privacy regulations; the rise of connected TV (CTV) and more, there’s plenty to discuss and lots of predictions to be made. The post Top Adtech Conferences For PR Exposure appeared first on Crenshaw Communications.

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Axia PR

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook has received its fair share of negative news coverage in the past; however, it’s nothing like the current firestorm around it and the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Is a crisis an operations problem or a public relations problem?

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PR in High Definition

APRIL 25, 2018

There’s no doubt that the recent revelations surrounding Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have brought the notion of personal privacy under even greater scrutiny. Do the same privacy rules apply? For many companies, this notion of privacy may not just be a personal matter but also a business one. Assess the risks.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In a nutshell, issues have surfaced over the past couple of years (related to fake news, online manipulation, growing privacy concerns as examples) that I believe drive the need to take stock and possibly reevaluate digital strategies. Instagram is all about dazzling images and stories and Facebook is increasingly about video storytelling.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

I’m not talking about a social media upvote or a Facebook “like.” Divided government, privacy breaches, corporate scandals — amplified by the relentless news cycle, they erode public trust in institutions and brands. Turning customers into fans. One diehard fan is worth a thousand casual ones.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 30, 2013

I love the collaborative energy, thoughts and community. After two days of searching, we believe the process went something like this: 1) Susan’s Facebook friend saw the image on Susan’s Facebook page and commented, “Can I share this?? This is one of the problems with Facebook. It’s where I work.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I’ve been writing this monthly column about PR technology companies for nearly five years – and I’m still continuously reminded that while these companies make software for communicators, they are not typically communication experts. PR Newswire teamed up with AKA Partners , a “video-first marketing communications” agency.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Recent updates to Facebook Messenger and Twitter DMs have renewed interest in social chat for customer communication, yet this is a medium that has been productive for communications professionals for quite some time. Facebook Messenger. It turns out that it was a shrewd move on Facebook’s part.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 23, 2022

2 – Using social listening to listen to more than just Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Not surprisingly, brands are listening on the big four platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. First, Facebook is a closed social media environment, so I’m not sure how effective any listening effort is there.

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