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Do you think your organization has what it takes to apply for a Best Places to Work ranking? Susan Springer of Best Companies Group shares the core focus areas of the employee survey that nominees are required to field.

For a large public company, earning the top spot on a best place to work list may be just a small blip on the communications plan. But to a privately held company like SAS, the designation is golden.

One industry sector whose budgets are notoriously scrutinized is healthcare—particularly within hospitals. Budget-cutting considerations can easily be transferred to other industries.

PR executives take a midyear budget/resources gut check, and figure what is working, what’s not and where to better position dollars and people for the rest of the year.

In a recent poll of CMOs, more than a third of respondents intend to implement big marketing projects to improve effectiveness, with digital marketing the No. 1 area of improvement.

In Part 2 of our PR/Marketing series, CMOs say that full integration with PR is crucial to communications success, and the alignment of the two functions is fully under way.

A new study says worldwide PR agency revenues were down in the 5% range; but one prominent PR exec feels that number is too low.

No matter how well rehearsed your crisis communications plan is, success in any crisis is still dependent on your “communicator in chief,” otherwise known as the CEO.

Most would agree that video is an effective communications tool. If a photo is worth a thousand words, what’s a video worth? People are not only more attracted to multimedia content—today, they expect it.

In the high-stakes atmosphere of a Chapter 11 filing, PR can help soften the blow to stakeholders.