3 Free PR Resources You Should Be Using

Posted by Shelly Kramer on November 11, 2010 · 9 Comments

Share We recently wrote about about how social media and things like Twitter, LinkedIn and other social mediums have and are changing the relationship between PR professionals and journalists and media outlets. If you missed that post, you can read it here (and of course we hope you will) (because it’s good) and also because [...]

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Social Media: Making Life Easier for PR Pros

Posted by Penelope on September 24, 2010 · 2 Comments

ShareAside from techies, PR professionals have been some of the earliest adopters of social media. With newsrooms shrinking, the old mainstays of pitching (i.e. the dreaded press release, VNRs, e-mail pitches, phone calls etc.), have become increasingly less effective as stand alone tactics. Although tools like Cision and Vocus have proven to be great resources [...]

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Marketing and PR Pros- Would YOU Work for BP?

Posted by Shelly Kramer on June 4, 2010 · 11 Comments

Share As the BP oil spill and environmental disaster continues, I find myself having almost daily conversations with friends and colleagues involved in the intertwined worlds of marketing, PR and social media about BP. Their strategy (or apparent lack thereof) in dealing with the crises (both the environmental one and the public relations one) is [...]

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BP-Top Kill Failed: Every Day, More of a PR Disaster

Posted by Shelly Kramer on May 30, 2010 · 8 Comments

Share You’d have to live under a rock to not be aware of the massive oil spill in the gulf and BP’s as yet unsuccessful efforts to stop it. The spill is now larger than the Exxon Valdez and the worst environmental disaster in American history. MSNBC reported just this morning that the top kill [...]

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