Archive: May 2014

Pre-Web, the marketing and communication vehicles were largely defined by media relations, advertising, print and events. But in a digital age, the rules have changed for communicators.

In 2010 Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS) created the Helping the Helpers Technology Makeover contest, which pitted nonprofits against one another to win a full-blown technology makeover.

If you want to get on the fast track in your organization via communications, you need to master two of the most traditional PR skills: written communications and media relations.

It’s not enough anymore for PR pros to get their brands and organizations exposure in appropriate media channels. Communicators need to provide their organizations with a ROI.

The promise of Big Data is slowly giving birth to a generation of metrics-driven PR professionals who have embraced stats and trend lines as powerful story telling devices.

Whether they are social media trolls looking to start trouble or people with a legitimate gripe about your products and/or services, PR managers need (in most cases) to address detractors in a dignified way, one way or another.

Once the graduation festivities end, you’ll be left to grapple with the question that has probably already plagued the end of your academic career: What are you going to do with the rest of your life?

If you want to see what the future of the Web will look like, just follow the money. Venture capitalists have plowed another $200 million into Pinterest, following a $225 million infusion of cash in October 2013.

You want your website to be the first thing people come across when they search your brand on the Internet. Here’s a quick list of things to help make that happen.

A PR person can come to rely on the local paper as a slam dunk. The downside is when they break a scandal or get onto a national crisis involving your brand.