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Where Are Our Fundamentals?

Waxing UnLyrical

We need to have an innovative mind when learning how to adjust to the social world and industry we are now immersed in. Unfortunately, many young professionals and students have seem to forgotten them, or aren’t applying them to new strategies and tactics that are taking the industry in a new and fruitful direction. Press releases.

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Start-Up Marketing and Yourself: Don’t be a Swiss Army Knife

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: UOregon Conference Services via Flickr, CC 2.o. And you tell them about how you like to eat ice cream and jog and take care of your dog, and you manage a company that sells lawnmowers. Like this: Image: Nisa yeh via Flickr, CC 2.0. Tech companies start calling themselves “idea incubators.” Sound ridiculous?

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ECM in the Cloud: A “CYA” for Press Agents

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: flyfarther79 via Flickr, CC 2.0. However, some industries are embracing cloud-based ECM solutions in a creative, proactive fashion. What’s more, this solution allows for a variety of document manipulation activities that are perfect for press agents. For example, consider a press release that’s being issued.

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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

With others who address me as Jennifer or Dakash, I wonder if these individuals representing both small and large companies really realize that their lack of research reflects poorly on their clients. Some have gone as far as outing the companies who have trodden down this path. I’m sure you can relate. Guess what? His response?

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Why Your PR Firm Is Stuck in the 19th Century

Jeff Esposito

The entire public relations industry is in the last spasms of a loud and painful demise. Just write up what you have to say and blog, Tweet, Facebook and Flickr until you get the word out. What is disturbing is the way that the PR industry is doing everything it can to hold on to their piece of the pie. Public became John Q.

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Effectively, they’re porting their press release information to the wide open, and perhaps going a little more granular by featuring content specific to elements of iTunes. If it was a Comcast product, you’d get a near immediate response from Frank Eliason , the company’s Director of Digital Care. Empower them.

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How To Become A Public Relations Star

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Nick Fletcher via Flickr, Creative Commons But I’m getting ahead of myself. Image: Marc Benton via Flickr, Creative Commons 3. 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. That got a big “check&# from me.

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