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Being Prepared for Wherever the Day Takes You

PRSay

So there I was, walking down the hallway of the Courtyard by Marriott in Minneapolis, on my way to attend day one of the 2023 PRSA Public Affairs and Government Summit on June 14-16 in Minneapolis, when my cell phone dings with following text: “Fire, Alert III, Twin, 17-L, ETA: Now.”

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International Conference Preview: Frank X. Shaw Talks Diversity, Disruption and 10 Years at Microsoft

PRSay

If you’re going to be successful in reaching 130,000 employees, then you have to be consistent [with your messaging] and have the patience to stick with it,” he says. I worked for my school newspaper, and when I joined the Marines I was a public affairs officer. We have 130,000 employees. We ran a base newspaper.

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15 years after: the collective “grilling” of Jim Grunig still delivers visionary insights on the future of PR

PR Conversations

15 years have passed and while some aspects remain surprisingly at the forefront of our conversations of today, others seem to have vaped into the background and therefore taking a second to reflect on them is a valuable exercise. The interaction among publics on the Internet simply makes these multilateral relationships obvious.”

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Maximising resilience of health and well-being assets in crisis situations

PR Conversations

I am sure there are statistics somewhere that record the number of employees who stick around long term after a crisis has occurred and if there aren’t, then there should be. There is absolutely a wider societal dimension to this and it also links to leadership, employee engagement as well as public relations and communications.

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What the Uvalde Shootings and Other Crises Reveal about Press Conferences

PRSay

In the oil and gas industry, for instance, public affairs employees are sometimes called into the office in the middle of the night to participate in crisis drills, wherein they take phone calls from actors playing the part of reporters, who may ask them questions about an oil spill.