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Libya’s Media and Marketing Industries Inching Forward

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The street where I live in Tripoli looks pretty much the same as it always did, but knowing that at least four men were shot dead outside one morning back in August 2011 as the city was liberated inevitably plays on your mind. Libya’s Media and Marketing Industries Inching Forward is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical.

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How Pink Panties Heralded India's Social Media Movement

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Neither convinced nor converted Despite campaigns such as the pink chaddi, the Indian psyche towards social media can be best termed as skeptical, at the moment. Advertising giants like Saatchi and Saatchi are slowly making a foray into the industry. All this via one bare-bones blog and a Facebook group.

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Measurement… Supplemented

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So Priya joined us to talk about the Council for Responsible Nutrition ‘s “Life… supplemented™&# campaign, and explained how they not only used social media, but measured the results. One of the major elements of the campaigns was to get consumers to fill out an online interactive wellness scorecard. .&#

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How To Become A Public Relations Star

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One applicant spoke about an Australian ex-Prime Minister’s use of social media as a fundamental part of his election campaign in engaging young voters. Creativity is just one of the things you need in this industry to be an outstanding applicant in a sea full of unoriginal fish. An ability to listen. Can you help me tie my shoelaces?”

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How To Kill Relationships With A Slap In The Face

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How To Kill Relationships With A Slap In The Face January 7th, 2011 Tweet Tell me when Last April, I was approached to speak at a PR conference targeted to health care professionals by a former vendor.

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15 Reasons Your PR Pitches Suck

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 15 Reasons Your PR Pitches Suck January 27th, 2011 Tweet In the genes? It means we are not educating the entrants to our industry well. Image: JKönig via Flickr, CC 2.0 And for that, shame on us all.

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Automation in Public Relations Measurement: Yea/Nay?

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November 18th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Seth Duncan As a researcher in the PR industry, I couldn’t be more excited about some of the advances I’ve seen around automation in media measurement over the past several years. collecting media coverage, putting it into a database, matching the articles and posts up with other metrics, etc.).