Understanding the language of our co-workers in the IT department is half the battle for PR and marketing pros. I’ve been in enough meetings with marketing, PR and IT professionals to see the pattern. Those on the marketing or PR side make a request. Those on the IT side respond using terms no one…
The field of artificial intelligence got its start at a conference at Dartmouth in 1956. Optimism ran high and it was believed that machines would be able to do the work of humans within 20 years. Alas, it was not to be. By the 1970’s, funding dried up and the technology entered the period known…
Managing unreasonable client expectations is both a curse and a blessing for today’s PR agencies. It’s a curse, because clients typically don’t know what we know—and explaining how the PR process works can be an uphill battle. It’s a blessing, because that means we have clients (and revenue) coming in the door. In a…
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Public relations and publicity are often used interchangeably. It’s an error worth correcting. Although PR and publicity are related, they are not the same thing. Here’s Merriam-Webster’s definition of publicity: · Something that attracts the attention of the public. · Attention that is given to someone or something by newspapers, magazines, television news programs, etc.…
Make sure you’re producing #content that your customers and public want to read and share it at the right time.
Your personal brand is what other people say about you when you leave the room. It’s essentially your professional reputation. Dorie Clark.
By Mark W. Schaefer A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a reader of the blog and he made an offhand comment that is still haunting me. This is what he said: “Of course it is possible to have a huge social media presence and look like a big deal while doing very…
Steve McKee Business is entropy. You are gravity. “If it wasn’t for me this place would fall apart.” Admit it. You’ve said that, or something very close to it. Sounds pretty arrogant. But it’s also true–more true than you may realize. There’s a reason that, over the course of an average decade, more than half…
For too many people, including most in the news media, PR is synonymous with media relations. I think we’d be better off dropping the term public relations/PR entirely and calling our field “strategic communications.” But I’ve been saying that for years. No luck so far.