Author Archives: Matthew Schwartz

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Group Editor, PR News

SF Giants Take Social Media Engagement to the Bleachers

The San Francisco Giants have hit it out of the ballpark. And the team isn’t doing too shabby on the baseball diamond, either. We’re referring, of course, to the Giants rolling out a new social media café at AT&T Park. | MORE »

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As Content Marketing Moves Into the Mainstream, Communicators Take a New Look at Paid Media

Public relations executives must step up their efforts to integrate paid media into their overall communications strategy, according to Leslie Campisi, managing director, United States, for Hotwire PR. | MORE »

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A 12-Step Program to Get on the Road to PR Profitability

A knock on the PR profession is that too many marketing communications agencies still don’t know how to manage their agency like a business. | MORE »

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4 Tips on How to Build a Great PR Workplace

PR managers have to be more cognizant of what the expectations are for employees the other 364 days of the year and not just the performance review. | MORE »

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Are Your Interns Camera-Ready? Inspiration from ‘The Internship’

Comedy aside, the movie may raise some interesting questions about the effectiveness of your internship program. | MORE »

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What PR Pros Can Learn From Edith Bunker

She knew how to defuse tense situations and see every side of the story before making a final decision.  | MORE »

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Lucky 13: PR Tips on How to Engage Audiences on Pinterest

Nearly 50-million strong, the photo-sharing site offers PR pros a growing opportunity to engage audiences with visual content. | MORE »

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Report: PR agencies’ profitability up slightly in 2012

“Model firms,” according to StevensGouldPincus, have been able to hold professional staff salaries well under half of total net revenue.
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Our Favorite Communicators (That’s You) Reveal Their Dream Jobs

A PR gig in the sports field holds a lot of appeal. But so, too, does the idea of working in PR for a yoga company or even being the press secretary for the president of the United States. Dream big, communications pros. | MORE »

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‘Listen’ to What Is Now One of the Most Important PR Skills

They may be hard to measure, but these areas count for some of the increasingly important skills of communications. | MORE »

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