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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

in 2013, compared to 2.5% ” Effective communication Research from the EU’s OpenUP project highlights the crucial role effective communication of science and innovation plays in helping spread it more widely across society. technologies.”

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How Much Does Customer Social Media Angst Really Matter?

Harvard Business Review

Most brands are playing catch-up : in 2013 only 30% of brands had a dedicated customer service handle on Twitter, and only 10% of those brands with customer service handles reply to more than 70% of their mentions. Public relations aside, why wouldn’t an organization take advantage of the world’s greatest free focus group?

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Get Your Pitch Noticed by a Major Publisher

Harvard Business Review

Today, editorial voices are outnumbered by public relations professionals by almost 5:1 – something most publishers lament. The problem with this plague of pitches is that publishers have had enough, and they’re beginning to implement strict spam filters to keep public relations pitches out of their inboxes.

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Narrowing the Chasm Between PR Professionals and Wikipedia

Harvard Business Review

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. As Emily Yellin describes in her book Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us , “public relations” was the phrase initially used to describe customer service.

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