Ragan Insider Nick Morgan
What to wear for your next presentation
In preparing your wardrobe for that upcoming talk, consider your audience and the location—and for everyone’s sake, don’t constrict yourself.
Archive for May, 2015
Ragan Insider Kevin Allen
Bitly offers marketers more analytics
Marketing professionals using the enterprise version of the link-shortening tool now have access to insights on when, where and how links are shared.
Ragan Insider Laura Hale Brockway
10 distractions corporate communicators face
Are these tasks keeping you from getting to your top writing and editing priorities?
Ragan Insider Dave Manzer
8 reasons PR firms get fired
Sometimes it’s not an agency’s fault when it gets dumped by a client. Sometimes it is. Often, both parties are to blame. These are sure signs of trouble.
Ragan Insider Matt Wilson
Charter announces plan to buy Time Warner Cable for $78.7 billion
The move follows Comcast’s failed bid to take over Time Warner after regulators seemed primed to stop it. Charter didn’t address that history.
Ragan Insider Tressa Robbins
Why your PR career may start with a post-grad internship
It can be hard for fresh graduates to earn entry-level jobs. An internship after graduation can be the link between being a student and full-time employment.
Ragan Insider Kevin Allen
Tips for creating brand ambassadors
It’s not just about recruiting them. It’s about maintaining their enthusiasm and rewarding them.
Ragan Insider Kevin Allen
KFC makes its tray liners into keyboards, but only in Germany
The keyboards are designed to prevent diners from getting grease on their phones if they eat while they work.
Ragan Insider Drew Hubbard
5 marketing lessons from Disney to emulate
Walt Disney evokes powerful memories and is adept in social media, listening, conversing and taking action to create new memories and new fans.
Ragan Insider Brian Pittman
3 tips for writing unforgettable PR messages
Unfocused messages can hurt your brand and career. Here are a few easy methods for crafting—and delivering—memorable messages in any medium.
Ragan Insider Beki Winchel
Boy Scouts president urges lifting ban on gay troop leaders
‘We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be,’ Robert Gates said to the organization’s leaders at its national meeting Thursday.
Ragan Insider Liane O'Neill
How Lucky Brand wisely used social media to win customers
The fashion brand’s rewards program helped amplify content and encouraged fans to create their own content.
Ragan Insider Kevin Allen
Google apologizes after racist searches appear on Maps feature
A company spokesman said the team was working to take down offensive search terms that lead users to the White House.
Ragan Insider Danielle Capriato
8 features your media room needs right now
Media and IR newsrooms often are the step-children of organizational communications. Does your newsroom barely cling to life, neglected and forgotten? Here’s a remedy.
Ragan Insider Susan Young
CareFirst discloses cyberattack with statement and video on its website
Some 1.1 million past and present customers of the health insurer are affected by the breach, which occurred last June. The Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate’s Twitter feed, however, offers no mention of the hack.
