The Bayer USA Foundation recentlly announced that it has awarded a $135,000 grant to ASSET Inc. (Achieving Student Success through Excellence in Teaching), the science education reform program Bayer helped to create in Southwest Pennsylvania… Continued
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Tip Sheet: Optimizing Speaking Engagements: 7 Ways to Build a Corporate Speakers Bureau
March 31st, 2008 by PRNEWSBy Lori Zetlin & Jeanne Tee Ask any VP of corporate communications what she/he is doing to secure executive speaking opportunities, and the overwhelming response will be "not enough." A savvy communications executive knows the… Continued
The CRO Offers Members Enhanced Access to Corporate Responsibility Reports
March 31st, 2008 by Iris DorbianCRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer), a unit of business media publisher Crossing Media, has begun providing enhanced access to CRO member companies’ corporate responsibility and sustainability reports through a content partnership with the U.K.’s CorporateRegister.com, which… Continued
Google, Yahoo and MySpace Create OpenSocial Foundation
March 28th, 2008 by PRNEWSThe Yahoo, MySpace, Google have announced that they plan to form the OpenSocial Foundation to ensure the neutrality of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web. The OpenSocial Foundation… Continued
Online Video Book Reviews By Kids A PR Triple Threat
March 28th, 2008 by Amy NovakStoryTubes invites 1st-6th graders to post video book reviews for nationwide competition to offer an exciting way for kids to talk about their favorite books. This is a PR win-win-win: A great way for the… Continued
Digital Content for Women: A Different Story?
March 28th, 2008 by PRNEWSYet another digital media conference took place this morning in New York discussing how to create digital content and how to monetize that content. But this conference had an interesting twist: the focus was specifically… Continued
Chew On This: Online Video Platforms Are The New Watercooler
March 26th, 2008 by PRNEWSIf you thought primetime television fell between the evening hours of 7 and 10, think again. Judging from the "video snacking" trend that’s sweeping through offices across the country, lunchtime is the new primetime, so… Continued
They Don’t Call It A “Crackberry” For Nothin’
March 24th, 2008 by John KeisersEvery businessperson out there thanks (and curses) the gods of e-mail for enabling instant communication with employees and clients. Every businessperson out there has probably also taken advantage of technological advances and checked e-mail during… Continued
Top Tech Trends
March 24th, 2008 by John KeisersDeloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) industry group released "Predictions 2007," a series of three reports that examine emerging developments and how they will shape the TMT marketplace. The usual suspects that impact communicators topped… Continued
What Does the C-Suite Think of Corporate Blogging?
March 24th, 2008 by John KeisersA new report suggests the C-suite has yet to appreciate the view. The Makovsky 2006 State of Corporate Blogging Survey polled 150 senior executives from the Fortune 1000, but found relatively few were ready to… Continued