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What role does Facebook play in workplace friendships?
Are you friends with your coworkers or employees on Facebook? A recent study by the Institute for Public Relations found that being friends on Facebook helps strengthen relationships at work. Read more!
READ MOREWhat is a contact report?
Alison shares her PR expertise by taking us through the PR Toolbox, this time explaining the contact report.
READ MOREWhat is a boilerplate?
For the past several months, we have been exploring the PR Toolbox, full of tactics that make up a public relations campaign. Now, meet the boilerplate.
READ MOREWhat is Media Training?
Join us as we delve into another “tool” in the PR toolbox – media training. Is your business in need? We're happy to share our expertise... learn more.
READ MORERepurposing Content – déjà vu all over again
For writers, déjà vu is translated as repurposing content. Check out the variety of ways to take information you’ve created and find new uses for it.
READ MORETips on pitching the media, part two
After sharing tips she learned as both a PR pro and member of the media, Alison is back sharing more tips she has picked up on how to pitch the media.
READ MOREDare to be Deliberate
This week, I went to another monthly meeting for the PRSA Phoenix New Pros Mentorship Program. While the last meeting discussed PR as a lifestyle, this week we focused on how to streamline career choices to help meet professional goals, with the help of Linsey Careers’ Dare to be Deliberate Career Action Plan. The group […]
READ MORETips on pitching the media
In addition to working in public relations, Alison writes for about two dozen media outlets across Arizona. Here are pitching tips she has for PR pros, directly from a member of the media.
READ MOREEmbracing a Cult Following
As Game of Thrones excitement dies down just days after the series finale, I can’t help but notice that references have been popping up everywhere – even at my favorite coffee shop. People far and wide have been taking advantage of Game of Thrones’ outrageous fandom. Starting with 2.5 million viewers in season one, the […]
READ MOREResults of 2019 Global Communication Survey Released
Michael Lasky, an attorney who heads up Davis & Gilbert, LLP’s Public Relations Law practice and has spoken at numerous Public Relations Global Network and Public Relations Society of America events that I’ve attended, sent me a note recently that the 2019 Global Communications Survey from the USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations has been released.
READ MOREHappy National Columnists Day
Happy National Columnists Day! This day is dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance and contributions made by writers.
READ MOREWhat is a media list?
In an effort to help folks understand the “secret sauce” of how we PR people do our jobs effectively, we’ve been writing posts on some of our favorite public relations tactics. (If you missed any, all are available below.) Today, we explore the media list. A media list is essentially a database. Today, it is […]
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