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Public Relations: The Two Sides of Information Access

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Boston and the world recently got an unfortunate and disturbing lesson on and reminder of the power…and the perils…of information access. The perils lay in the ability of anyone, anywhere…at any time…to acquire information that, sadly, could be used to inflict harm on others. We’re past that point. Lutoslawski, May 6, 1906” [1920].

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What Information Is Not

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It used to proclaim at program breaks: “WXXX, where information is power.&#. Information of itself (in hands other than Google’s, Facebook’s, or the FBI’s) is useless. “It’s too much information at once!&# There was a radio station we used to listen to pretty often during my morning commute.

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Big Research Smarts for Small Budgets

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What is really important here is that USGS is very specific in its search parameters, looking for USEFUL information. Not just “any” information; but USEFUL information. Author information Shonali Burke President & CEO at Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc.

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PR Ethics … “You CAN Handle the Truth”

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Further, in the Code’s “Provisions of Conduct,” both “free flow of information” and “disclosure of information” are stressed, along with “enhancing the profession.” So how do or should we communicate sensitive, potentially-troubling information to those who have a right to that information? Tell the Truth.

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2020: The Year Data Saved The World

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share information on COVID-19 (and everything else!) Author information Shonali Burke President & CEO at Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. as never before; learn, in real time, how vaccines are developed; and. watch innovation take shape before our eyes as a speed to which we were not accustomed, but which now feels “normal.”

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When the FDA won the Internet (also, cicadas)

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I’d say if it gets 10+ retweets and 0 haters on Twitter, it’s having a good day (an observation based solely on an informal scan of its Twitter profile). Now, the FDA doesn’t usually get a ton of engagement with its social content. This one, though, is different: 300+ comments and thousands of retweets and likes.

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How Do You Build A Brand? Start by Asking What Drives Human Behavior

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The answer lies in the way in which we process information. For this to make sense, it’s worth thinking about the quantity of information we have to process at any given moment in terms of data. Language is an example of how we reduce the effort it takes to process information. We’re talking gigabytes.

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