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Teamwork Is a Contact Sport

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We’ve all heard the old… very old…saying, “There is no ‘I’ in team.” in team sports. Social media interaction isn’t exactly a team sport. Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Teamwork Is a Contact Sport. There are good lessons to be learned from both of these statements. I can have a good idea.

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Creative Storytelling: Picture This: It’s Not Just the Words – It’s What You Do with Them

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During the 2017 training camp, when offensive tackle Lane Johnson said he’d buy fans beer if the team won the Super Bowl, Bud Light stepped in and tweeted “Let’s make a bet. Win it all and the party is on us. Do the Right Thing.

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Five Signs the Future Belongs to User-Generated Content

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Gangnam Style was a concentrated publicity effort based on the work of Psy and his PR team. Creating a sport around your brand may be the most sophisticated gamification on the planet. The two sensations peaked roughly four months from one another on extremely similar arcs, but the similarities end there.

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#SocialPR Spotlight: Dinean Robinson

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I’ve been in the game for 12 years and have worked within food & beverage, sports, entertainment, non-profit, health & wellness, and LGBTQ sectors! The Master Course has been instrumental in helping me educate and empower my team to utilize and participate in the Social PR movement within our organization.

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Boners BBQ: A Study In How To Hate Your Customer

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Hooters, every single professional sports team that employees cheerleaders, you name it. Have a terrible looking website that advertises a secondary slogan so juvenile and childish that it is difficult to find it offensive. There are plenty of examples of entities with edgier themes out there. Sex sells in our culture.

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25 Free Digital Marketing Tools for Nonprofits

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The life of a communications pro for a nonprofit organization is one that seems to require a daily mix of magic tricks, extreme sport level time management and creativity. Problem: You need some easy and useful ways to collaborate with team members , volunteers, Board members, and external partners. Guest Post by Laura Petrolino.

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The Problem With PR

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Employee relations becomes the sole purview of HR, external audiences are targeted by the MarComm team, and so on. I come for a sports marketing background), but there has to be some type of professionalism assessed to that in order for this profession to continue to thrive.