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Developing and Maintaining Meaningful Media Relations

July 6th, 2009 by

Following are four excellent ways that you, as a PR professional, can cultivate and maintain excellent media relations.

Social Media Tools Important to Business Reporting

July 6th, 2009 by

Sixty-eight percent of business journalists find social media to be important to their reporting.

Increasing Your Organization’s Visibility

July 6th, 2009 by

When executives say they want to increase the company’s visibility, you as a communications professional need to dig a little deeper and find out what specifically it is they are looking to achieve. Then, you… Continued

An Emerging Divergence: A New Form of Environmentalism

July 6th, 2009 by

Today, environmentalists (and environmental PR professionals) find themselve at odds with lilke-minded allies that agree in principle to certain causes but strongly diverge on execution.

Measurement Services Decide Between Man and Machine

July 2nd, 2009 by

As the number of measurement services providers continues to grow exponentially, one of the main points of differentiation is determining who controls the tone of coverage: a human or a machine. “The biggest difference is… Continued

Beware of Greenwashing Your Business

June 29th, 2009 by

Before you tag your company as green, be sure that you do a self-audit: Are you responsibly

Keys to Gaining Customers’ Trust Online

June 29th, 2009 by

The social media revolution has toppled traditional models of brand building and reputation preservation. It has also forced brand leaders to recalibrate their approaches to building trust among customers. According to Bob Pearson, president of… Continued

Lessons From the Apple/Jobs Controversy

June 29th, 2009 by

Apple has always prided itself on “thinking different.” While scores of companies are working to rebuild obliterated consumer trust in the wake of the financial crisis, Apple has gone against the grain, stirring up a… Continued

Torching the Media Competition

June 29th, 2009 by

Coordinating communications around the sponsorship of the Olympic Games is an immense challenge in and of itself. Imagine, then, what Lenovo and its agency partner Ketchum faced when the preliminary stage of their Beijing Olympics… Continued

Making a Big Deal Out of Small Talk

June 29th, 2009 by

Not all speech is created equally. Keynote addresses, press conferences, sermons, lectures, gossip—they definitely do not evoke the same response. While the higher profile forms of communication make all the headlines, don’t underestimate the potential… Continued