Recently, a renowned scientist commended on LinkedIn on issues of employee retention, and that she used the word “Zoom” exclusively for videoconferencing in her post.
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Seamus Phan writes on everything related to marketing, including public relations (PR), publicity, branding, direct marketing, sales, event management, market research, and so on. Social media is included here, in so far as it is related to the practice of it.
Crisis management and communication used to affect only certain industries such as petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. But increasingly, with cybersecurity breaches and disease outbreaks, every organization needs to understand, communicate and manage crises well, just as pilots use CRM (crew resource management) to prevent and mitigate crises.
Before the COVID-19 saga started, even in the early part of 2020, the so-called “influencer” arena is abuzz with luxury, travel, enjoyment, and lifestyle. Then the global lockdown and shutdown began, and the whole notion of “influencers” changed.
These days, top and middle management crave, yes, crave for data and reports. For publicists, the measure of their success seems to be drilled down to reports – the prettier, the thicker, the better.
Once upon a time, in a planet right where we are standing and breathing, we believed that all journalists wrote exceedingly well. And it might have been true, once upon a time.
If you ask me, 99% of the so-called “influencers” aren’t really that at all, as they are self-created or agency-created entities, rather than community-endorsed individuals who move mountains. Let me give you who I would use as examples of true influencers – Jesus Christ, Apostle John the Beloved, President Vladimir Putin, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc. You get the drift.