Seven Things You Will Learn In This Week’s Issue Of PR News 1. 66% of surveyed execs feel that their companies’ post-merger integration efforts are a key problem. 2. Companies with the most effective employee… Continued
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A Lesson In Geometry: You Think You Know Media Jargon? You Have No Idea
January 29th, 2007 by PRNEWSIn honor of your survival of “the most depressing day of the year” – which, according to widespread media coverage, was January 22 – here is a light-hearted glimpse into the backstory of the jargon… Continued
Internal Comms: Tying Employee Motivation To Organizational Goals
January 29th, 2007 by PRNEWSFortune’s recently released “100 Best Companies To Work For” offers folkloric glimpses into the world of top-spot holder Google, whose executives offer some of the most compelling reasons to be a happy (and, subsequently, loyal)… Continued
Back Talk: Communications Audits: A Panacea Or A Bitter Pill?
January 22nd, 2007 by PRNEWSAs discussed in “Fear and Loathing in the C-suite: De-mystifying the Comms Audit,” the idea of conducting a communications audit for your organization can invoke the pure terror among even the most steely-nerved executives. However,… Continued
Tip Sheet: The Art Of The Cold Call
January 22nd, 2007 by PRNEWSWe have all been there – The Cold Call. That dreadful moment when we hit those numbers on the phone and hope the person at the other end does not answer so we can talk… Continued
Case Study: Ernst & Young Goes Above And ‘Beyond’ With Lifetime Commitment To Inclusiveness
January 22nd, 2007 by PRNEWSCompany: Ernst & Young Agency: Fleishman-Hillard Timeframe: 2006, ongoing About three years ago, a group of employees at Ernst & Young approached top management with a proposal: they wanted to take their grass-roots initiative to… Continued
Quick Study: The Tech Wave Of The Future; Corporate Giving On The Rise; Top Business Concerns v. Top Consumer Concerns
January 22nd, 2007 by PRNEWSTop Tech Trends Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) industry group recently released “Predictions 2007,” a series of three reports that examine emerging developments and how they will shape the TMT marketplace. The usual suspects… Continued
How To…Convert Public Information Documents Into A Foreign Language
January 22nd, 2007 by PRNEWSPublic information officers and communications professionals should not simply go to Berlitz when converting news releases, fact sheets, brochures and consumer advisories to a foreign language for distribution to the ethnic media and consumers, who… Continued
Did You Know?
January 22nd, 2007 by PRNEWSSeven Things You Will Learn In This Week’s Issue of PR News 1. “Broadcast Spanish” is understood by most Spanish speakers regardless of their country of origin or ethnic background. 2. Total corporate contributions in… Continued
Just Say ‘No:’ When No Response Is The Best Response In An Interview
January 22nd, 2007 by PRNEWS(This article is excerpted from the just-published PR News Media Training Guidebook. It is written by Andy Gilman of CommCore Consulting.) One of the most important lessons to learn in Media Training is that not… Continued