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New Zenler
New Zenler is the First Ever Course Platform built around Sales & Marketing. Everything you need from Course Creation, Marketing Funnels, Email Automation to Community Building without needing to hire designers, developers or marketers.
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Articles
A Collection of Public Relations Automation Tools
Last week I gave a webinar about PR Hacking or how to automate boring communication tasks. I covered several tools and published a list here for easy reference.
onlineprtraining.com
The Reincarnation of Blogs via Commpro.biz
Although there may be disagreement about when blogging was born, one thing is clear. Blogging has been reincarnated and the pandemic deserves a lot of credit for it. The best guess is that blogging got its name in the early to mid-1990s.
commpro.biz
Diversity communications: a cultural obligation to educate society - via IPRA
Communication has a critical role in helping to eliminate stigmas and misinterpretations. By Gabrielle Gambrell.
ipra.org
Podcasts
The Comms Chat with Kerry Sheehan on Artificial Intelligence via The Comms Chat
Listen to this episode from The Comms Chat on Spotify. Kerry Sheehan has extensive experience in the world of PR, data and artificial intelligence. She has been a leading industry voice on how artificial intelligence and data is used in the PR industry, the pitfalls and opportunities it brings, and how we need to navigate the ethics of communicating in our ever-changing world.
spotify.com
Conferences
Managing Pan-African PR Campaigns - via AfricaCommsWeek
Best Practices for Managing Pan-African PR Campaigns. On 8 April the next edition of the webinar series with CIPR International Group will cover an insightful and practical session on managing pan-African PR campaigns with Dana Al Mubaidin ADNANI, Samuel Bekele, and Steven Shepperson-Smith.
zoom.us
Reports
Reuters Institute Digital News Report
This year's report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 80,000 online news consumers in 40 markets including Kenya and the Philippines for the first time.
The report looks at the impact of coronavirus on news consumption and on the economic prospects for publishers. It looks at progress on new paid online business models, trust and misinformation, partisanship and populism, and the popularity of curated editorial products like podcasts and email newsletters.
digitalnewsreport.org
2021 Tech Trends Report via The Future Today Institute
The cataclysmic events of the past year resulted in a significant number of new signals. As a result, we've analyzed nearly 500 tech and science trends across multiple industry sectors. In our 14th annual Tech Trends Report, we have published 12 separate reports with trends grouped by subject. We are including what we've called Book Zero, which details our method and shows how we did our work. Discover critical insights for business, strategy, government and strategy leaders. See what strategic action you can take on the future, today.
futuretodayinstitute.com
Tools
LinkedIn Adds New Profile Features via Social Media Today and Andrew Bruce Smith
LinkedIn has added some new options to help users share more of their personal story via their profiles. LinkedIn Adds New Profile Features, Including Video Cover Stories and 'Creator Mode'
socialmediatoday.com