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Shades Of Green: Integrating CSR To Improve Business Performance

April 23rd, 2007 by

It’s all over the news, from high-profile testimony before Congress to dedicated features in business magazines: corporate social responsibility, corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship, sustainable business practices…

When Multiple Brands Combine Their Identities, PR Mediates

April 16th, 2007 by

It’s an issue ripe for the picking: increased globalization, overseas expansions, mergers and acquisitions – all of these trends have brought the corporate re-branding conversation to a head, as effectively aligning and integrating multiple brands… Continued

Tip Sheet: Maximizing The Relationship Between Your Communications And Marketing Departments

April 16th, 2007 by

The decline of mass marketing and proliferation of new media seems to be one of the factors resurrecting the age-old debate about whether public relations and marketing should be part of the same function. With… Continued

Case Study: ‘Hands Helping Heroes’ Gives Time Warner Cable’s Charlotte Division The Public Recognition It Seeks

April 16th, 2007 by

Company: Time Warner Cable, Charlotte Division Timeframe: Ongoing Time Warner Cable’s Charlotte division had been active in community outreach programs for years, but the overall effect was scattershot: small amounts given to numerous causes across… Continued

Quick Study: Helping Employees Grasp Benefits; Communications & CSR; Management Deplores Lack Of Knowledge-Sharing

April 16th, 2007 by

Value Compensation Here’s more information to back up the argument that PR and HR should join forces on the employee communications front: A new study conducted by Harris Interactive and Charlton Consulting Group reveals that… Continued

How To…Create And Implement An Effective Word-Of-Mouth Strategy

April 16th, 2007 by

Consider the viral power of YouTube: In mere months, the platform revolutionized the way people all over the world create, spread and consume news – however news is defined these days. Companies are certainly jumping… Continued

Did You Know?

April 16th, 2007 by

Seven Things You Will Learn In This Week’s Issue Of PR News 1. When considering a WOM strategy, don’t assume that the words have to come straight from someone’s mouth. 2. 52% of surveyed managers… Continued

The Value Of Public Relations Strategists:Resolving A Perpetual Misunderstanding

April 16th, 2007 by

Recognition of PR professionals’ strategic ability is a subject perhaps most candidly described by PR and business students, many of whom point to a lack of mutual understanding about strategy between business and communications executives.… Continued

Tip Sheet: Your Most Important Pitch Ever: Selling Senior Management On The Value Of PR

April 9th, 2007 by

The most important pitch you will ever make won’t be to a member of the media. Rather, it will be to senior management, whose support and direct involvement in your PR program spell the difference… Continued

Case Study: Multicultural Media Relations Put Additional Power Behind Award-Winning Human Rights Campaign

April 9th, 2007 by

Agency: Newlink Communications Timeframe: 2006 The International Organiza-tion for Migration (IOM) saw an urgent need for a new mechanism to protect citizens of Latin countries who were tempted to take a non-traditional route to find… Continued