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Four Tips on Successfully Building Your Own Creative Department

Deirdre Breakenridge

Recently, my colleague Patrick Walsh shared a few great tips on finding the right creative partner to take on some of your design projects. It’s time to start thinking about bringing your creative work back in-house. You want to build the right creative team, and to do that you need to consider a few factors: 1.

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How the FTC’s New Social Media Guidelines Affect Your Brand

Cision

For the first time in five years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated the FAQ page of its endorsement guidelines. Besides the demand for clarity from influencers, the latest guidelines also require disclosure for contests and sweepstakes, videos and images. Lucas says, “Be creative and deliver something in that contest.”

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Build marketing and PR programs rather than executing campaigns

Sword and the Script

Creative briefs. You put guidelines in place on the left and right – limit the number of reviews based on the subject matter – and then empower the team to run forward as fast as they can as long as they stay within the guidelines. Campaigns sometimes become the foundation of marketing activity. This is fraught with drawbacks.

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Tackling bias in how we create and tell stories

Stephen Waddington

The Institute of Development Studies has developed guidelines for inclusive storytelling. From creative treatment through scripting, the act of producing a story to inspire response has the potential to reinforce stereotypes and, however unwittingly, inequalities. Subjects should have an active part in how their story is told.

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The Importance of Adaptive Response In The First Moments of Crisis Management

Melissa Agnes

Delegation – understanding whether the situation requires strict adherence to rules or demands creativity (ex: the difference between a chess player and a sports coach). Some of our agencies have become slaves to these bureaucratic standards, keeping us from resolving the crisis through creativity or outside-the-box thinking.

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Writing For Journalism And Writing For PR: How They Differ

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Our main goal is to represent a client company within brand and messaging guidelines that are created in advance or developed jointly with the organization. We can still be inventive within a messaging framework; it just takes extra research, effort and creativity. . PR writers keep it simple.

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The 21 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

PR people may also develop guidelines for interacting with the media or even social media. Niche industry events, role-specific conferences (catered to developers, creatives, etc.), PR professionals leverage storyboards and creative briefs to ensure that multimedia content is consistent with their brand positioning and messaging.

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