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Edelman PR Makes Sense of Privacy Risks for Businesses
Edelman released the Edelman Privacy Risk Index℠ (ePRI) and an online benchmarking tool that help businesses and organizations make sense and address data security and privacy risks.
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All That's News About Media Outreach: Muck Rack Tested
Media outreach, the double edged sword that slices PRs and journalists to shreds at times, any communicator out there can surely use good tools for helping out. While everybody knows about Peter Shankman's (now Vocus') HARO ingenuity, but have you heard of Muck Rack?
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Christiaan Brown Joins Edelman as Senior Vice President
Christiaan Brown joined the world’s largest public relations firm, Edelman, as a senior vice president at the Seattle Technology practice, where he will report to leader Troy McCombs. Previous to this position, Brown was general manager of Hill+Knowlton Strategies Northwest and served as global client relationship manager of the Qualcomm account.
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Brian Maloney and Margie Fox Join Ogilvy PR
Ogilvy PR appointed Brian Maloney and Margie Fox as managing directors in its US consumer marketing practice, positions they will effectively occupy starting early 2013. Fox was also named US creative director for the consumer practice, while Maloney will be the leader of the New York consumer marketing group.
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UBS Cuts 10,000 Jobs, Stirs Social Media PR Crisis
On Wednesday, Sergio Ermotti, UBS chief executive, has finally announced a measure to cut the bank's losses: he fired nearly 10,000 people, worldwide. The problem however, is how.
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EverySignal App Sends Daily Alerts with Friends Updates
Given the number of social networks available, the number of friends on each of them, and the fact that you have to also work, not spend all day on social media, it is sometimes hard to keep up with news from friends. Newly launched EverySignal is a newly launched app that sends you daily alerts about interesting things happening in your friends’ lives, thus enabling you to get rid of embarrassing moments and replicas like “But I posted on Facebook/Twitter”.
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Should You Pay to Play? Evaluating Facebook's Latest Changes
Private Facebook users are given a 'Promote' button next to the ones for 'Share' and 'Like,' where they're given the option to pay $7 to make sure that a post reaches a higher percentage of their friends by bumping it up in news feeds and making it stick around longer. What does this mean for business, and how can you take advantage of this new Facebook advertising channel?
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Marketing Considered One of the Least Valued Professions
Probably any marketer will tell you how important what they do is for a business. And people would agree as a new study shows. 94% of consumers and 98% of marketers consider marketing as essential to businesses, and nine out of ten people see marketing as paramount to driving sales. Yet only 13% of the people interviewed consider that marketing benefits society, and 53% of them think that generally marketing is “a bunch of B.S.”.
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Cone Communications Launches Corporate Social Return Approach
Corporate Social Responsibility has become important for many companies, sometimes driven by the desire of doing something good, other times just as a means of gaining awareness. The public relations and marketing agency Cone Communications launches a new approach to CSR called Corporate Social ReturnSM based on their belief that corporate social responsibility should deliver measureable business, brand and social impacts thus meeting stakeholders' expectations.
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Ogilvy PR Rolls Out Analyst Community Engagement
Renowned public relations agency Ogilvy PR has launched a new and interesting service: Analyst Community Engagement (ACE), powered by a global team based in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore and Sydney. Its purpose is to give technology companies an informed, strategic and measurable approach to industry analyst relations, according to the official announcement.