My response to A Good PR Consultant Needs to Understand Business bySara Benwell, originally posted on the Huffington Post. In recent years, there has been a large amount of discussion about the future of public relations. Ask anyone outside of the communications function what “PR is” and they will likely give you a vague definition of media relations: … Continue reading
The new trend in hiring and recruiting: requesting social media passwords. It seems there’s a new trend in the job hunting world. Or maybe it is all a nasty rumor. (Recent news articles have me thinking otherwise.) After a recent conversation with peers, I decided to further investigate the issue of social media in the … Continue reading
Myth #1: PR equals press releases Myth #2: Effective PR can replace the efforts of a sales team Myth #3: Using PR, my company will become famous overnight Myth #4: PR is cheap Myth #5: PR is easy so I’ll just do it myself* The bottom line? Public relations professionals will face far more challenging … Continue reading
Defining CSR Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the continued commitment of a business to perform ethically and to contribute to their development while also improving quality of life for the community and society. This is an initiative to hold corporations to standards that necessitate that they pursue not only profitable objectives, but also objectives that … Continue reading