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#measurePR Recap: Complying Socially with Eric Schwartzman

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We had a lively group on board for the #measurePR chat held on March 4, with very special guest Eric Schwartzman of Comply Socially. Eric noted that the biggest risks of social media monitoring are: intrusion of privacy, invasion of privacy, and the potential to use social media for job applicant screening. measurePR #measurepr.

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Adjectives are Cheap: Sell Yourself with Nouns and Verbs

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” ~Alan Weiss, principle, Summit Consulting Group. Career Client Relations Communication Guest Posts adjectives job applicants odesk' Everyone is a ‘best selling’ author or a ‘sought after’ speaker or a ‘world class’ coach. My long-term webmaster is leaving for greener pastures — Sniff!

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Surveys: Essential to the PR Pro’s Toolbox

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These require that I: turn in an application and research proposal to the University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), wait two to three weeks (our IRB is über-efficient; other institutions don’t get back to you for months), and. Throughout graduate school, I have conducted in-depth interviews for all of my investigations.

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How To Become A Public Relations Star

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This, for successful applicants, turns into an interview (which is where I came in). One applicant, who I argued against having in the course, gave fantastic answers, was well spoken, but as soon as another person started to speak (including panelists) got glassy-eyed and stared at their nails. That got a big “check&# from me.

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Forget Everything You Ever Learned About Body Language

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The study’s application to normal everyday communication between people in the real world has been widely debunked. Here’s what you need to know about body language. Busting the 93% Myth. First, about that 93% figure. That’s a misinterpretation of an isolated laboratory experiment that was done more than 40 years ago.

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Long Live Seuss! A PR Pro’s Tribute to History’s Greatest Children’s Author

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In fact, most of them are still applicable to the world as we see it. Summary: Seuss teaches kids to count and understand colors with his array of interesting creatures grouped in different sized groups, with differing shades. More importantly, Seuss’s books always came with some kind of lesson or understanding of the world.

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The Motorola XOOM: A Revolutionary Tool

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Practical applications of the XOOM that I can see are: for presentations to a small group (or a “notepad&# for larger presentations), casual browsing while watching TV, and. That’s how often I had to charge it, and that’s continuous run time. use as a digital camera/video recorder.

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