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Twitter’s ‘Fabric’ to Offer Olive Branch to Developers—and PR Lesson for Communicators

October 21st, 2014 by

By offering a new suite of tools that should make things easier for developers, Twitter is ripping a page out of PR 101: building relationships and cultivating goodwill with partners who can help to boost the brand and put more fannies in the seats.

Sesame Street Using Technology to Boost Literacy

October 20th, 2014 by

This was inevitable, or long overdue depending on whom you ask: Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit producer of “Sesame Street,” and the children’s speech recognition company ToyTalk are joining forces to explore how to use conversational technology to teach preschool literacy.

Tumblr Extends TV’s Reach Beyond the Tube

October 20th, 2014 by

For marketers who work with TV—especially those pining over Tumblr’s millennial-dominated audience—a Tumblr collaboration can deliver a different, lasting way of extending a show beyond it’s standard runtime.

PR Insider: 5 Tips for Giving a Great Interview

October 20th, 2014 by

There is no way to guarantee an interview will go completely according to plan, but here are five tips that can help make the interview successful.

Coca-Cola Stirs Up Its Communications Via World Cup

October 20th, 2014 by

As an official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup, the Coca-Cola marketing campaign for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil was built upon the notion that the competition is the “World’s Cup,” with the goal to create the most inclusive, engaging and participatory Coca-Cola World Cup campaign to date.

3 PR Tactics to Strategically Enable Sales Lift

October 20th, 2014 by

While sales enablement is strategic, it is achieved through a well-coordinated series of tactics. PR is one of those tactics often overlooked. Here are three distinct tactics that PR uses to enable the sales process.

How To Own the Content Marketing Budget

October 20th, 2014 by

As the primary storytellers in your organization, it would make sense that PR executives would own the strategy and the budget for their company’s content marketing initiatives. Why, then, is that so rarely the case?

Screen Test

October 20th, 2014 by

If brands and organizations want to get their messages in front of millennials they’re going to have to ramp up their mobile communications and cater their conversations to the small screen.

Traditional PR Tools Retain Importance in the Digital Era

October 20th, 2014 by

So much of the communications practice is dedicated to understanding, deploying and mastering digital communications tools. But it turns out that traditional principles still pack a significant PR punch.

How Social Media Is Altering IR/PR

October 20th, 2014 by

Shareholders are the foundation of any publicly traded company, and communicating with them has changed dramatically because of the Internet and the social Web.