Tag Archives: communications

Business Wire’s 50th Anniversary College Contest Highlight: Robert Brown

It’s too bad we’re not having a contest for the most nicknames because our next finalist Robert Brown would take the prize. Robert Brown, also known as Bob, Bobby, Bobert, Beebs, and Bawb is one of our top ten college video finalists for Business Wire’s college video contest. In celebration for our 50th anniversary, one student [...]

Business Wire’s 50th Anniversary College Contest Highlight: Scott Berman

In less than six weeks, one lucky student will meet Warren Buffett, chairman & CEO of Business Wire’s parent company, Berkshire Hathaway, at Business Wire’s NYSE Opening Bell luncheon on September 30th, 2011.  Business Wire’s college video contest invited students to answer the question “What is the future of public relations and communications?” We’ve managed [...]

Stakeholder engagement improves valuation: study

WHAT gets measured, matters. Measuring the effectiveness of stakeholder, investor and other corporate communication activities, however, has always been somewhat ambiguous. Until now. Wharton Professor of Management Witold Henisz has found a way of measuring the benefits of stakeholder engagement activities to public mining companies that operate in risky environments. Henisz and two co-authors researched [...]

Five Killer PR Tips for Staying Relevant in Public Relations from JDA Software’s Cindy Kim

Tips for staying relevant in the PR field from JDA Software’s Cindy Kim. Recap of a recent Business Wire event in Phoenix.

The Top 10 Marketing Sites for Social Media Marketing Trends

Recently, the Pivot Conference team set out to learn more about the state of social advertising and the future ahead by conducting an industry survey of 230 brand managers, executives, and marketing professionals. We will release the full report during the week of July 25th. Not all of the insights we learned will make it [...]

Calling All College Students: Enter Our 50th Anniversary Video Contest & Win a Trip to Meet Warren Buffett in New York

Business Wire is going back to school! In our 50 years in the industry, we’ve seen first-hand how the communications world has changed & played a pretty big role in many of those changes along the way. Looking to the future as part of our 50th Anniversary, we want the next generation of communicators to [...]

Government Social Media: Five Questions For 2011

Guest writer Dr. Mark Drapeau is the Director of U.S. Public Sector Social Engagement at Microsoft, and the editor of SECTOR: PUBLIC, a new online magazine about how science, technology, and innovation are affecting the public sector, public service, and civic improvement. You can follow him on Twitter at @cheeky_geeky. The Federal government has made a [...]

Designing investor presentations

Professional presentation designer Jan Schultink worked for almost a decade with McKinsey & Company advising Fortune 500 CEOs about strategy. In this guest post, he provides advice on how to design investor presentations that create a strong impact.

Discussion: How to push social media for IR forward?

Patrick Kiss, Head of Investor & Public Relations at Deutsche EuroShop AG, sees a lack of progress in the use of social media for investor relations. He wonders if the time has come for IROs to take the next step and move beyond monitoring to active engagement — or potentially even withdraw to the sidelines.

Should you send holiday cards to analysts and investors?

ONE of the hottest discussions over the past week in the Investor Relations Executives Group on Linkedin asks whether investor relations pros send out holiday cards to their covering analysts and biggest shareholders. Most of those contributing to the thread do send out holiday greetings cards, and offer various reasons for doing so. Those who [...]