
Brian Solis and the Modern Analyst Relations Playbook
Brian Solis, Gartner, Forrester, IDC, 451 Research, Constellation. The analyst relations playbook — what AR is, who runs it, what it costs.

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Brian Solis, Gartner, Forrester, IDC, 451 Research, Constellation. The analyst relations playbook — what AR is, who runs it, what it costs.

Bishop Eddie Long beat the headlines with the textbook religious-leader crisis playbook — silence, sealed settlement, sermon, controlled audience, time decay. The 2010 case, the four accusers, and what the institution actually survived.

Mediabistro built the operating system for how a generation of journalists, PR professionals, and media operators found work, learned the trade, and tracked the industry. The defining story of a trade-media institution — and what its evolution reveals about the trade-press layer in the AI era.

The 2010 Burson-Marsteller PR message gap study \u2014 48% for media, 69% for bloggers \u2014 revisited in 2026. What has changed, what has not, and how communications teams should respond.

Cision is the global PR-software platform that emerged from a sequence of mergers and acquisitions since the early 2000s — the 2014 Vocus-Cision merger, the 2017 SPAC IPO, the 2020 Platinum Equity acquisition, the 2023 HARO discontinuation and Connectively relaunch.

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology: a STEM-focused Pennsylvania institution, MSCHE-accredited, ranked #16 Most Innovative by US News 2025, with Learning Tech and Applied Behavioral Science pipelines and the 2010 social-media blackout case file.

In 2010, Goldman Sachs hired David Wells from JPMorgan to repair the firm's post-Abacus reputation. Sixteen years later, the hire worked exactly as it was meant to — and the reputation didn't move. What the arc shows about how reputation discipline changed.

FDA reputation management — how Dr Pepper Snapple, Unilever, JUUL, and Celsius handled warning letters, and what their cases teach modern brands.

Meme marketing has evolved from cultural curiosity into one of the primary engines of brand visibility — the 2010 era to 2026, the modern playbook, the case studies (Old Spice, Wendy's, Duolingo, RyanAir), and the AI Communications dimension.

Top-tier American malls post record sales while Class C properties close — the bifurcation is real, and PR (tenant announcements, crisis response, civic positioning, AI-search visibility) is one of the few levers separating winners from dead malls.
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