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and keywords/keyphrases for public relations efforts. To refresh your memory, we strategically included often used words and phrases in the post to attempt to attract more visitors to our blog and Web site. The LT Public Relations blog had a staggering 148% increase in taffic over the course of three days. The LT Public Relations Web site received a 30% jump in traffic over that same timeframe. Some of the keywords and keyphrases used, included: Those are numbers we can live with and further helps us to 1) continue to diligently think about what words to use in our posts 2) how we can further help our clients with their ...
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The consumption of media, and really the consumption of all information, has changed dramatically over the past 10 years. In a talk at the Newhouse School’s M.O.B. (“Monetizing Online Business”) Conference , Pew's director Lee Rainie gave a presentation on the latest data and trends in regards to that change. Here are some of the highlights: There is one main change agent: the Internet. Some of the attributing factors include: - 79% of adults use the Internet (opposed to 46% in 2000). - 59% connect wirelessly (0% in 2000) - The Internet was slow, stationary, and relied on the connections built around the ...
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and South Georgia, and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982. The war lasted 74 days, and resulted in the deaths of 257 British and 649 Argentine soldiers, sailors, and airmen, and three civilian Falklanders. It is the most recent conflict to be fought by the UK without any allied states and the only external Argentine war since the 1880s. The conflict was the result of a protracted diplomatic confrontation regarding the sovereignty of the islands. Neither state officially declared war and the fighting was largely limited to the territories under dispute and the South Atlantic. The initial invasion was ...
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A successful public relations effort takes time. Time to gain traction (keeping with the running theme) with the target audience (e.g. the public). Also, it’s important to know your pace before starting this ambitious run. A steady pace of communications with a few spurts of adrenaline (e.g. larger PR campaigns) will get you to where you need to go. COMMITTMENT. Like any good relationship (e.g. spouse, children, family, friends), the “relationship” with the “public” is a commitment . It takes nurturing, constant communications, understanding and some hard ... Read More
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Recently, The Financial Brand sat down with two PR pros in the financial industry to chat about public relations and some of the things financial institutions should know. Here’s a Q&A interview with Casey Boggs, President of LT Public Relations in Portland (OR), and Dan Barron, President of Conroy Barron Public Relations in New York, a PR firm that helps ad agencies with financial clients. Casey: On the whole, every financial institution is faced with the scrutiny of their safety, soundness, trustworthiness and longevity. These are critical issues that need to be addressed. If a financial institution is indeed safe, sound ...
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Springtime is on the way, just in time to help your business reach full bloom. Maybe your marketing efforts need a little spring cleaning? You will surely discover some new tricks at TMMPDX.COM’s top Portland marketing events for March. 1) Searchfest - Tuesday March 09, 2010, 7:30am-6:00pm, Governor Hotel 614 SW 11th Ave. Portland Searchfest is a wonderful way for you to learn more or enhance your skills at Portland’s largest search engine marketing conference. This year’s keynote speaker is Stefan Weitz, Director of Bing. The conference has three different tracks: social media, PPC, and SEO. Searchfest is ...
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A major credit union publication featured some interesting news on its front page this week. No, not breaking news on the interchange amendment, it was instead news on a credit union hiring a full-time social media specialist. Social media positions are certainly not new, by now a good portion of companies, not to mention government agencies have full-time employees that are responsible for generating and monitoring Tweets , Facebook and blog postings. Credit unions however, have been late to adopt social media as a way to communicate with members and the community. Slowly, some are beginning to abandon their conservative ...
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Editor's Note: Last month, our Thinking Outside the Box column
discussed the background of the Council for Biotechnology Information
(CBI) and the early efforts by the group to inform consumers about the
benefits of biotechnology. This month we delve into the tactics
scheduled for this year and which audiences will be targeted. Heading up Washington, D.C.-based CBI is Linda Thrane, longtime
Cargill public affairs expert. Thrane was only on the job a few months
when this interview was conducted at her home in Independence, Minn. She
speaks candidly about what CBI hopes to accomplish for its member
companies (Dow ...
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From a safe distance of a walled, guard-dogged and alarm-fenced home whose security has been breached yet, the story of violent and or intrusive crime in Botswana is torrid, dangerous and ambiguous. Issues of crime are often spoken about in general and personal terms, invoking wild xenophobic sentiments and in anger and dismay at alleged police inefficiencies. Feeding into this fear are the all too familiar stories about someone who knows someone who�s been a victim of crime at work and at play: Botswana is no longer as safe as it used to be. The police�s public relations office churns out statistical data every week to ...
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"Residents of Ward 7 and the City of Laurel should be proud of all of the hard work that has been put in at the Oak Park pool," said Wanda Benson with the City of Laurel's Public Relations Office. The pool improvements included a pool filtration system at the city swimming pool that had not been replaced in more than 50 years. In April, city officials differentiated on whether a new filtration system was needed for the pool. During the council's April 21st meeting Councilmen George Carmichael and Manuel Jones introduced an order rescinding the April 6th order approving the purchase of a filtration system at ...
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King of Spain to bestow
Spanish knighthood on Lt. Governor Owen Updated March 28. The Spanish
ambassador is no longer able to attend the ceremony as was stated in the
original version of this release. OLYMPIA – More than 15 years working with
the Spanish government on projects from arts to trains and even
recognition of a historical fort in a far corner of Washington state has
earned Lt. Gov. Brad Owen ...
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Fall, L.T. (2004). A public relations segmentation study: Using grunig's nested segmentation model and yankelovich's generational influences model to ...
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I think this depends on the type of program. For example, an Executive MBA Program will look for quality work experience while a full-time MBA Program whose focus in on recruiting directly from an undergraduate program is less concerned about work experience. I suggest that you select your top programs of interest, visit their web site and see what they say are the attributes of a good applicant. I think the important thing to remember is to identify the unique attirbutes that a program wants and how they define the more standard attributes. Most of the top MBA programs use social media to interact with potential applicants. ...
That is the reason US Defence Secretary Robert Gates gave for removing Gen David McKiernan as America's military commander in Afghanistan and replacing him with Gen Stanley McChrystal. Gen McChrystal, with his background in special forces, represents the future of warfare as envisaged by Mr Gates and President Barack Obama - away from conventional military planning, towards modern, asymmetric war fighting. He is currently the director of the joint staff - one of the most senior military leadership positions in Washington. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8044899.stm Here is his long and distinguished ...
