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Can you believe it's mid-December and another year is almost done? That can only mean one thing ... it's time for our annual episode where we gaze into the proverbial communications crystal ball ...
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On this episode of Inside PR, Martin Waxman, Joe Thornley, and Gini Dietrich discuss the importance of protecting your intellectual property, even for new business decks and website verbiage.
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Gini, Martin and Joe talk about mistakes that employers are making in the post-lockdown period. Success in bringing employees back to the office will turn on effective communications. And effective communications starts with listening, understanding others' interests and objectives. And then speaking to their concerns, not just blustering forward with what you want and care about.
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We're happy to report that after a hiatus of around 20 months and all the things that have happened between then and now, Gini Dietrich, Joe Thornley and I are back recording Inside PR.
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Yes, it's been a long time coming, a long time behind episodes. But we're back with Inside PR for another year. And we're getting back into the groove by discussing the things that we are looking at in the waning months of 2019.
info_outlineThis week, we cover a new Stories feature that LinkedIn is testing, the launch of another daily news podcast, this time from the Washington Post, and Facebook meets it match in the United Kingdom Parliament.
LinkedIn Stories -- Putting wings on an elephant?
LinkedIn is beta testing a Stories feature called Student Voices. On one level, it sounds like a good idea. However, if aimed at younger users who have seen Snapchat Stories as ephemeral content that enabled them to be spontaneous and genuine without fear of their mistakes showing up in a data cache. When they use LinkedIn Student voices, will they bring this expectation only to discover that the information lingers on their profile and is being viewed by prospective recruiters? Maybe there is an argument for keeping different social networks separate according to use and audience.
The Washington Post enters the daily news podcast game with Post Reports
The Washington Post has launched Post Reports, an afternoon news podcast. It is the latest in a series of high quality news podcasts, including The Daily, Up First, and Front Burner, that collectively signal a significant shift in the news diet of an increasing number of people.
They also represent a challenge for PR Pros. The one thing these new podcasts all seem to have in common is that they are highly curated. There are limited slots for stories in the short format adopted by all of the news podcasts - and they are cherry picking for their line up from the stories covered on their companion traditional news outlet. So, getting a story placed and covered on the news podcasts is not a linear extension of the traditional pitch. PR pros will have to watch closely to understand the unique perspective and focus of each of the new podcasts in order to find a way to ease a story's coverage. But a straight up pitch? Probably not.
Damian Collins shows Facebook that it's dangerous to thumb your nose at Parliament
Facebook may have more members than any country has population. And Mark Zuckerberg may feel he's too important to accept an invitation from legislators representing eight countries to testify before them. But Mark Zuckerberg definitely isn't bigger than Damian Collins, MP. Last week, Collins made good on his promise to release the documents from Facebook vs Six4Three court case. And the picture they painted of Facebook's competitive behaviour and Mark Zuckerberg's role in decisions that would exploit Facebook user data to advantage Facebook and disadvantage its competitors was .... ugly.
Linkworthy
- LinkedIn launches its own Snapchat Stories. Here's why it shouldn't have, Josh Constine
- Jameson Hsu's LinkedIn story example
- The Washington Post announces programming details for its new evening podcast, "Post Reports"
- The Washington Post has launched a new 20-minute daily news podcast, Max Willens
- News podcasts we love
- The Daily, NY Times
- Up First, NPR
- Front Burner, CBC
- Post Reports, Washington Post
- Summary of key issues from the Six4Three files, Note by Damian Collins, MP
- Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers, Carole Cadwalladr
- Facebook Emails Show Its Real Mission: Making Money and Crushing Competition, Kevin Roose
- Facebook Used People's Data to Favor Certain Partners and Punish Rivals, Documents Show, Adam Satariano and Mike Isaac
- Now eight parliaments are demanding that Zuckerberg answers for the Facebook scandals, Natasha Lomas
- Delay, Deny and Deflect How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis, Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg andJack Nicas
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