About a decade ago, layoffs and lack of growth were rampant in the public relations industry. Seemingly overnight, canceled contracts and reduced budgets became a thing of the past. The pandemic has caused many professionals to switch their focus from a traditional...
Social media platforms are a great place for sharing content and communicating with others, but they’re also a great place for misinformation and conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, in the last few years, many consumers have lost a lot of trust in brands, and trust...
After several years of being a freelance reporter for a number of New York daily newspapers, I was offered a full-time job at one of them. But it wasn’t as a reporter. I was assigned to a news desk, where I had to read all of the competing newspapers to see if they...
The talent shortage is a huge problem for modern workplaces today—69 percent of the US employers are already struggling to fill job positions, and it's projected that human talent shortage will reach 85 million people by 2030. But this doesn't mean that the world...
The year 2021 has provided some important lessons for PR practitioners. Unfortunately, all of them are the result of sad events. In the order of the most recent, as of December 15, here are several that I consider provide PR lessons that relate to our business. ...
2021 saw companies adapting and evolving after the pandemic and extreme weather conditions in the U.S. Gearing up for 2022, 10Fold founder and CEO Susan Thomas prepared her top six predictions covering HR, marketing and tech for the year to come, which are listed...
If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s to brace ourselves for uncertainty. As 2021 comes to a close, the world continues to evolve, and PR is changing along with it. And while it’s impossible to predict all the new developments ahead, the PR industry has...
Planning a trip this year? Airports look different—and not only because of mask mandates. Traveling was a stressful adventure even before the pandemic. Now, health concerns, behavior expectations, increased travelers, labor shortages, and constantly changing policies...
Requiring my team at MediaSource, a public relations agency that works mainly in health care, to get vaccinated against COVID-19 was the right thing to do. That’s why I mandated that my team get the shot a full month before President Biden announced his vaccine...
The field of public relations is a constantly-evolving one that is influenced by changes in technology, television and radio. Social media is another major influence in the PR landscape, and one that has revolutionized the field, opening it up to new channels of...
Uncertainty still holds sway over the nation’s cultural zeitgeist, and has businesses and marketers unsure how to proceed in order to connect with consumers. New research from comms giant Ruder Finn takes a deep dive into how Americans think about the future and how...
Public relations has never been an easy job to handle. What’s worse, the internet and social media have made the role increasingly challenging in terms of getting the right story to the right people. In 2020 alone, PR executives got a taste of crisis management with...