Controlled Chaos: 86 Comms Pros Explain How Communications Work Has Changed
90% of comms pros surveyed say their work has changed some, and of those, 50% say communications work has changed significantly Most communicators say the volume of work has grown, but so too has the variety of work. Nine in...Read More
3 Keys to Running Successful Internal M&A Comms Campaigns [Guest Post]
Leaders should plan and execute comms around M&A with the same level of detail as any other marketing campaign or business initiative writes Dwayne Alicie in this guest post Communicating during mergers and acquisitions can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t...Read More
Want the Fastest Growth in Business? Take Care of Your Employees First, Study Says
Brands that emphasize employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) achieve business growth nearly 2x faster If you take care of your employees, they’ll take care of your customers, and everything else will fall in place. That was one CEO’s...Read More
$100 Million M&A for Internal Comms Tool: What’s Older is Still News in Marchlyjunetember [PR Tech Sum No. 16]
Internal comms tool SocialChorus acquired by a PE firm; Burton-Taylor digs up revenue numbers; Nexis Newsdesk Simplifies news search; Propel adds broadcast monitoring Welcome to the beginning of September. That’s hard to believe – that we are somehow closer to...Read More
Advocating for a Better Workplace; Off Script No. 42: Tina McCormack Beaty of SHRM
In high school, she landed an internship with a local radio station and started a club for kids trying to pursue a career in broadcasting. She says her career aspiration, at the time, was to be a video jockey for...Read More
3 Creative Ways Public Relations can Partner with Human Resources and Recruiting to Attract Talent
He was walking my way and I saw him before he saw me. While I don’t think he was looking for me, I knew if we cross paths, he would stop me for 15 minutes. I’d be stuck listening to...Read More
Crisis Comms: No one More Reliable than an Employee
If there was an overlooked crisis comms story to bruising expose The New York Times published on Amazon, it was the impact Nick Ciubotariu’s rebuttal on LinkedIn had on the story. In a contributed article for PRNewser – Amazon Case...Read More
Engineering the Enterprise for Content Marketing
Recently a puzzle like the one nearby made rounds on the web. Fifth-grade students allegedly can solve this problem in 20 seconds or less. If you tried and failed, you are not alone and we are together in this one. ...Read More
Internal Communications Lessons from a PayPal Fiasco
Good initiative, bad judgment. That’s how I’d characterize PayPal President David Marcus’ message to PayPal employees leaked to VentureBeat. His note can be summarized by his final paragraph as posted by the same publication: “In closing, if you are one...Read More
10 Leadership Tips for 1:1 Meetings with Employees
The military places an enormous emphasis on “counseling” — 1:1 meetings between leaders and subordinates that define the tasks, conditions and standards. That is to say, clearly defining the job to be done, the conditions in which those tasks will...Read More
