In the B2B field relationships are everything. Without a strong connection between partners, cooperation cannot happen. This stands in the way of success. Companies need to know how to improve relationships with clients, otherwise, they will not have any. ...
Telling Stories in B2B Communication
It is a common concept in the B2B market that the dialogue needs to be serious, messages must be brief and effective without nonsense. However, decision makers are still human, and in order to earn their trust, we need to start telling stories in B2B...
Public Relations Can Influence the Government
It is hard to imagine that public relations can influence the government. However, when we talk about thought leadership, influencing government policies is the greatest achievement. Especially when a regional business from Cambridge does it, in spite of the...
Information Availability and Ethics
Big Data and Ethics It is essential for PR professionals to understand the impact of Big Data and ethics on communication practices. The evolution of the web's structure is rapidly accelerating, which makes the process even more challenging. Metadata and...
An Opportunity for Reciprocity
Opportunity for reciprocity Today, we are witnessing the greatest evolution in the history of PR. New forms of digital media are developing, and PR professionals have the opportunity to cultivate practices that take advantage of social media, as well as digital...
The Structure of Social Media: Problems, Like Cyberbullying
Despite the ‘self-correcting adhocracy' of social media through the work of vigilant peers, there are still, and there always will be, major concerns in relation to the spread of misinformation. Breaches of privacy and security; attacks by trolls and...
The Structure of Social Media: Web Evolution
Web evolution When companies analyse, develop, and use social media, they have to take some factors into account that are instrumental in these processes. Digital Audiences First of all, the ‘digital divide’ is very much real. It is the lack of access to...
PR and the Media: Setting and Framing the Agenda
By setting and/or framing the agenda, PR professionals have to ability shift the public's attention. Not only that, but they can also use these strategies to entrench various topics into the public conscientiousness. In some regard this is how successful public...
PR and the Media: Different Goals, Different Strategies
Public Relations subsidised information and news became an indirect benefit for the influential, political, and policy-making elite. As they often rely on information provided by the media in their decision-making. But the information benefit of PR also helps...
PR and the Media: The Information Benefit
Public Relations (PR) has a close relationship with journalism, and more widely, the media. With PR, organisations and institutions are integral sources of information for journalists. This process of sharing information is what we call 'information benefit'....