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What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

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For years, marketing, advertising, and public relations folks fought over budgets, scopes of work, ownership, and talent. The traditional buckets of marketing, advertising, and public relations seem so quaint now. Will he blog about it too? How segregated are their advertising and editorial teams?

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How a New Communications Graduate Can Stand Out

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You’ve just graduated with a degree in communications, advertising, PR, or marketing, and have joined the thousands of other grads in competition for hundreds of entry level jobs and internships. It’s a tough market out there and I don’t envy the position you’re in at all. How were they used?

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A Partial Reading List for PR Students

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You’ll learn how social media is being integrated into areas beyond just marketing and PR. It’s as relevant now and it was then, and is a great foundation for any PR or marketing professional. Marketing in the Round - Marketing and PR are no longer the only organizational touchpoints with the public.

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Is Our PR Community Part of the New Pittsburgh or the Old One?

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This post originally appeared on PRSA Pittsburgh’s blog. . Pittsburgh and other mid-size cities get a bad rap in the PR and marketing industry. Where’s the PR, advertising, and marketing community in all of that? Creative Commons image from Flickr user Slackley. I want to prove them wrong.

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Using Social Media to Reach the Hard-Working Class

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For marketers, these moms don’t represent just a new, sizable consumer segment, they wield a lot of influence within their families and with their friends. Marketers have to not only better understand this new segment of consumer, they have to find out how to help them. I’m barely able to make ends meet.

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Time for a Change

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Over the last four years especially, I felt as if I was at the tip of the spear when it came to things like social media policy (this blog and my Twitter account were the first transparent, employee-owned, external social media properties), Enterprise 2.0 (I I was on the Programming Committee for the first Gov 2.0

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Grading Social Media

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If you’ve kept up with this blog , you know that I’m really interested in the intersection of social media and education, and my old Public Relations 101 professor now teaches in the USI communications department, so I’m particularly excited for this opportunity. Grading the use of social media was a non-issue.

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