Ragan Insider Robby Brumberg
How to engage anxious employees and forge a fresh culture amid COVID-19
New research from McKinsey can help communicators keep workers feeling hopeful, valued, united and motivated.
Ragan Insider Ted Kitterman
What makes a perfect product video?
As more and more shopping moves online during the pandemic, being able to feature your offerings with online video is a crucial tool for your organization.
Ragan Insider PR Daily Staff
Showcase your engaging videos, visuals and virtual events
Ragan’s Video, Visual & Virtual Awards will recognize the best virtual experiences and visual storytelling work from the past year. Don’t miss the Friday, Aug. 21, entry deadline.
Ragan Insider Beki Winchel
Mattel’s Black Barbie runs for president, 60% of COVID-19 restaurant closings are permanent, and Post partners with Dunkin’ on caffeinated cereal
Also: Consumer Electronics Show 2021 will be entirely online, the NFL shares a conversation about allyship and workplace culture, Twitter to remove links to hateful content, and more.
Ragan Insider Ted Kitterman
Report: How 10 brands succeeded—and failed—to respond to Black Lives Matter
In the wake of George Floyd’s death and a renewed conversation around racial justice in the U.S., the business community has tried to come to terms with its role in fighting systemic racism.
Ragan Insider Charles Hartley
How PR should vie for the prestige of the CMO
By proving value and learning the business strategy believed to be the domain of the chief marketing officer, PR execs can be powerful leaders for the organization.
Ragan Insider Bryant Hilton
5 ways to improve, refine and streamline your business right now
Ongoing COVID-19 disruptions offer an opportunity to revisit areas of your company that need improvement. Focus on these crucial yet often overlooked aspects of success.
Ragan Insider Ted Kitterman
FiComm Partners’ Megan Carpenter on Zoom, WFH and what’s next
Here’s what this agency leader has to say about what to expect as we hurtle toward the end of a chaotic year in communications.
Ragan Insider PR Daily Staff
Don’t miss this Friday’s Content Marketing Awards late-entry deadline
This is your last opportunity to submit your impressive content marketing assets, campaigns and projects. All entries must be received by this Friday, July 31, at 11:59 p.m. Central time.
Ragan Insider Ted Kitterman
Employee engagement takes a hit after months of crisis
The metric, seen as a good indicator of morale, productivity and whether your workers are looking for new jobs, had taken a historic rise. What’s behind the drop?
Ragan Insider Beki Winchel
Google employees to WFH until July 2021, Target to close for Thanksgiving, and social media channels remove viral video for misinformation
Also: Many consumers won’t feel comfortable traveling for nearly another year, Instagram attempts to lure TikTok creators to its new service, a social media pun, and more.
Ragan Insider Diane Schwartz
How Home Depot’s comms director is building for the unknown
To manage her team through disruption from COVID-19 and important conversations around structural inequality in the workplace, Yanique Woodall is discarding the rulebook.
Ragan Insider Robby Brumberg
Writing for a weary, worn-down workforce
COVID-19 continues to put communicators in a tough spot. Here’s how to maximize your output and creative energy during this anxious, stressful time of life.
Ragan Insider Meghan Hui & Mary dela Cruz
How Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Fire embraced the ‘mukbang’
To celebrate Pride during the COVID-19 crisis, the whiskey maker turned to internet personalities to help create online community.
Ragan Insider Ray Day
How to move from communications firefighting to futuring
Stagwell’s Ray Day reflects on his time in the auto industry during the Great Recession of 2008 and how that experience taught him to make bold moves in the face of adversity.
