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Updated for Issue 26: October - November 2006

Hundreds of PR, marketing and web media articles from February 2001 to the latest issue.

Are you a Winner?
2006 Corporate Social Responsibility Summit
Professional Services Marketing Masterclass
Celebrity
Opinion: While the media moguls rearrange their empires, consider this….
Book Review:Ethics in Public Relations: Responsible Advocacy
OOPS - PR Nightmares
New Media:From Monologue to Dialogue: What’s all the fuss about Web 2.0?
Fresh Thinking
Consumer marketing: What it takes to use celebrities to leverage a brand
Measurement: Communication Dashboards
The Web is a media channel where marketers can get 'editorial' coverage
10 Tips for Media Conference Success
2006 Silver Anvil Award Winners
Fresh Thinking: How marketers are thinking outside the square
Book Review: Unleashing the Power of PR: A Contrarian’s Guide to Marketing and Communication
Book Review: PR News’ Guide to Best Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility 2006 Edition
New Media: How to achieve higher rankings in search engine listings
Measurement: Key Research and Measurement Terms
Corporate Social Responsibility - Where are we now?
Have your say on Australian PR and win!
Consumer: Unilever opens up to deliver smart PR for consumer brands.
Opinion: The Power of PR and Reputation on Brands
Media: Top 5 Tips for Public Speaking Excellence
Brands: Proctor & Gamble proves PR produces strong consumer brand ROI
Strategic Marketing for Professional Services
7th National Public Affairs Convention
Marketing & PR: The Brave New Man
Media: Pitching - Approach with caution
Measurement: We answer the most common questions
New Media: Are you blogging yet?
First time user of Agency PR? Read on
Trends: Survey reveals pressure to stay up to date with technologies
Book Review: Naked Conversations - How blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers
Opinion: Avian Flu: Panic or Pandemic? Getting the balance right in risk communication
Corporate PR: Insights into corporate communication trends
Canadin Brewery under fire
PR and Branding: Using Psychographics to target your audience
Seminar: 360 Degrees PR in 3.6 Hours
New Media: Staying visible in the Internet Age
Media and PR: 10 common gripes that PR people face
Opinion: P&O brand undermined by extensive adverse media coverage
Communication Planning: The importance of Message Maps
Crisis Management: Sink Or Swim? Could your company cope with a crisis today?
Building Buzz: How to reach and impress your target audience
Prinfluces test 2
PR Influences Test Title - News vs Media
Test story
PR in Action - You decide
BOOK REVIEW: Steal These Ideas! Marketing Secrets That Will Make You a Star
PR & Media: Options for distributing media materials
PR & Brand Marketing: Is your advertising and PR in sync?
Managing PR: Considerations in outsourcing your public relations
PR & the Web: New strategies achieve higher rankings on search engines
PR & Marketing: Media issue impacts Fords reputation and brand values
PR Trends: Challenges for communicators in 2006
Opinion: Current events show good & bad PR
Books: PR’s role in helping CEO meet changing expectations
Guide to media release distribution
New forum brings IT media and vendors together
IT and e-commerce - time to start talking about technology benefits not features
Permanent: PR Influences wins Web Marketing Award
Strategic Internal Communication Conference 22-24 February 2006
Australian CEOs - brand enhancers or brand wreckers?
OPINION: An uneasy alliance - media, PR, companies
Marketing: The potential PR branding power of the CEO
Managing PR: 10 steps to creating a PR capability within your organisation
Media Relations: What type of spokesperson works best?
Marketing: Is consumer brand advertising and PR reaching real men?
PR Measurement: 10 things you should know about Share of Discussion
Media Training: Messaging a key PR benefit for senior management
Managing PR: The approval process for media releases
BOOK REVIEW: Christmas Reading List
Crisis and Issues Management - three recent examples show its impact on perception and reputation
Marketing and PR: Challenges of marketing to women exposed
Managing PR: Tips for getting communications and yourself to the boardroom table
Media and PR: Online Newsrooms - ten tips on how PR should present the company to the media
B2B and IT: Need for a different approach to marketing, PR and communication
Only 2 receive 100% in PR IQ test!
Corporate Reputation: Media still an important foundation
PR in Practice: How Sensis uses communication to drive and protect brand and reputation
Communication Technology Terms - RSS, Blogs, Podcasts & more
Jim Macnamara's Public Relations Handbook
New Media: Importance of blogs for marketers and communicators
Advertising only approach for kids' obesity campaign
Marketing: Communication is key for reaching confused consumers
Media Relations: Rate how equipped and proactive you are
B2B PR: A key tool for branding
PR measurement: Assessing media coverage
Corporate Communication: New research shows value of Corporate Citizenship and CSR
New Product Launch: 10 Proven Strategies
Word-of-Mouth marketing puts onus on users
Marketing: Rise of word-of-mouth marketing gives PR fresh impetus
Media: 10 tips to increase coverage in industry articles
B2B: Sales staff recognise PR role in lead generation
Crisis and Issues Management: Issues - are you managing them or praying?
Managing PR: Gaining media coverage for visiting executives
Managing PR: A guide for marketing, brand and product managers
In The Court Of Public Opinion: winning your case with public relations
Asian Tsunami and Earthquake tests CSR approaches
How to assess your organisation's PR capabilities
25 commandments of media relations to memorise and live by
Senior marketers value Public Relations
A strong reputation is increasingly a PR responsibility
Thought Leadership - more than just a catchy phrase for PR professionals
New measurement techniques link sales directly to PR
Blogs: check out the latest corporate attempts
Guerilla P.R. Wired: Waging a successful publicity campaign - online, offline, and everywhere in between
Morgan Poll
Check out our Christmas Reading Recommendations
Australians believe media is biased
Lack of Trust in Business - new report shows how it is impacting with customers
Introducing Blogs
Assessing PR Models Within Organisations - delivery, positioning, strategy
Top Ten Tips for Tech Media Success
Corporate Social Responsibility - an important tool for most businesses
Letter from the Editor: Merry Christmas
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT PR INFLUENCES
Morgan Polls (the Reader)
Survey confirms PR role within Australian E-Suite
Knowing who to influence - a key tool for both marketers and corporates
PR takes the rap in James Hardie case but more needs to be known
Selecting a new PR Agency - Best and Worst Practices
Media rate companies and their spokespersons
Lawyers and PR - an historical antithesis is starting to thaw
Pitching Media - An Overview
Clued In - How to keep customers coming back again and again
How to cope with recession
10 AWARD WINNING PR CAMPAIGNS
A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY:
Issues test fortitude
Clients and their agencies give perspective on PR priorities
Style Manual
Acronym Builder
Buzzkiller.net
Plain English
Don Watson’s ‘Death Sentence’
Deloittes Bullfighter
When Worlds and Words Collide - your resource guide to plain English
Brand Managers - using PR as a tool
Media - how equipped are you to handle this important area?
Measuring PR: Outcomes - what impact is the communication having?
White Papers - now seen as a key tool for IT and B2B marketers
The Origins of Brands and The 18 Immutable Laws of Corporate Reputation
Permanent: Privacy Policy
Permanent: Contact Us
Permanent: Legal
Permanent: About Us
Debunking myths about PR - the role of PR in marketing
Pressure applied to public companies likely to impact on others
Company and Agency Perspectives on PR in 04
Corporate Reputation and The CEO
Media interviewing - four principles to understand
UK Study Will Help Australian In-House PR Managers
A crisis management checklist
PR at Work - three international marketing examples
Invisible Advantage: How Intangibles are Driving Business Performance
Grow your leadership position with surveys - creating your own news stories
Gain the most from your clipping service expenditure
Moving from Enterprise to SME markets - the communication challenge for IT vendors
Guide on how to establish, maintain or restore trust
Media Kits, a top priority that often gets left to the last minute
Three Examples in 2003 show how Crucial PR is to Corporate Success
Insights into Marketing Communication Issues, Trends and Practices.
Conquering Consumerspace: Marketing Strategies for a Branded World
Newsroom Survey
The good, the bad and the ugly.
Boiler plates - a good idea out of control
Making B2B Media Work
Internal and External PR - making it work
Media - what to do when the facts are wrong
Consumer electronics - a rich area for PR to play a role
Newsrooms… most companies have them, but who’s driving them?
Influentials - reaching the 10 percent who influence the other 90 percent
Australian Government back flips to a single branding strategy
How to help your CEO value PR
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Food industry off to a mixed start in its fight against obesity
Sick of industry buzzwords? Help is here - new jargon busting software
Debunking myths about PR : using consultancies
Image and Reputation - two misunderstood siblings that need better management
B2B marketing: maximising credibility
Measuring PR: Outputs - the first essential step
Media Training: delivers many benefits
Consumer marketing - priorities for PR in new year plans
Brand Child: insights into the minds of today's global kids and their relationship with brands
Organising an event - some do’s and don’ts
Seminars & Training
Opinion: PR - a key ingredient as the Complementary Medicines Recall issue unfolds
Consumers have difficulty recalling new products
US study shows how large organisations handle PR internally
Marketing & PR. Time for a fresh look?
External PR resources - not sure, considering, yes - but time to review
Company spokesperson - facilitator or buffer?
How prepared are you for a crisis?
Questions to ask a reporter
Marketing to Women: new book focuses on untapped marketplace
What does 2003 have in store for your communication function?
To speak or not to speak?
Better B2B releases - 10 top tips
What’s in your Marcom and Corporate media toolkit?
Selling PR internally - top 5 tips
10 ways NOT to handle your media relations
Keeping your product launch on the media timeline
Industrial and B2B marketing: now’s the time to fine-tune the tactics for FY03
Five ways to make communication more effective in your organisation
Is your web site communicating what you want?
Tips on writing media releases
Media interviews - the top 5 tips
A guide to VNRs
Reality check time for corporate reputations
Corporate reputation - what is it and how will my organisation benefit?
American survey reveals consumer insights into brand loyalty
First study of successful new product launch
Biotech experience reinforces the importance of public opinion
ROI link between PR and corporate reputation established
Advertorials: why you should consider them. And how to make them work even better!
Local vs international campaigns
Product attributes - the key to the whole campaign
Pressure on CEOs and Directors to meet public expectations
PR likely to join auditors in facing corporate fallout
Dick Smith gives multinationals a wake up call
Retailer becomes brand info source with (almost) a great idea
Credit to Telstra for its handling of a marketing crisis
Losing one brand is bad enough. Taking another one with you is just careless
Australian organisations failing to utilise websites as a media tool: we rate the sites of 10 major corporates
Media myths: we examine 10 common myths about media and how to work with them
The death of hyperbole?
Off the record: do you really know what it means?
Editor confirms PR opportunities increasing
If you think the media is there to do you a favour, think again
What makes the news? ABA survey reveals all
Studies show media use of PR
Media coverage: forget about the quantity - measure the quality
Consumer communication goals - without them you’re just making noise
Measuring PR success - AVEs rejected
Public relations: 10 roles it can fulfill in marketing
PR & marketing: the implications from Al Ries’ book
Consumer marketing: nutrition moves from ‘could have’ to ‘must have’ status
ERP: a difficult environment demands a bigger role for communication
The fall of advertising and the rise of PR
Brand marketers: a few points to think about
PR and Brand Marketing: different perspectives, same goal
PR and advertising - it works well together
Debunking myths about PR: PR and advertising
Gen Y Teens - wired but wary
Market your company - not just your brand
How important is the name behind the brand?
PR and marketing - thinking smart with existing brands
Using specialist external PR. Can you afford to, or not?
Internal communication departments: 10 reasons why communication effectiveness is often impeded
How to hire a PR firm
Crisis management - 10 things that can save you
Crisis vs issues - what is the difference?
Crisis management - where do I start?
‘Corporate attack sites’ a real threat
US Reputation Survey tells it how it is
Advertising guru spills secrets in new book
A new guide for corporate communications in the 21st century
The “Idea Virus”: learn the tricks of how to use this new ‘contagious’ marketing tactic
New book explores importance of brand
Third party techniques exposed in new book
'Positioning' - worth a read
A Changing of the Guard in Communication
Check your PR Inventory

 

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