An A to Z of Public Relations

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πŸ“– Attention. Hard to get nowadays. Even harder to keep. Don’t scroll away so soon!

πŸ“– Broadsheet. A term for more serious newspapers, but are any printed in that large size anymore?

πŸ“– Channel. Not the prime consideration when planning content. Purpose, audience, then channel.Β 

πŸ“– Disinformation, the new term for propaganda.

πŸ“– Engagement rate, the prized analytic in social media.

πŸ“– Framework. As in the AMEC Integrated Framework, the best tool for measuring and evaluating campaigns.

πŸ“– Generative AI. The future of PR. Maybe.

πŸ“– Hallucination. Such a pleasant term for lies. Must have been originated by Gen AI.

πŸ“– Involve. What internal communication can do, together with inform and influence.

πŸ“– Journalists. Fellow communications professionals that PR practitioners can work with. If you call them hacks, they will call you flacks.

πŸ“– Kind of really important: outputs, out-takes and outcomes, with their cousin, objectives.

πŸ“– Long-form. The evolution of the press release. The days when these were short-form constructs of who, what, where, why and when plus a quote are from the age of telex and fax.

πŸ“– Mental health. We need to get better at recognising and helping fellow practitioners (and ourselves) with mental health issues.

πŸ“– Networks. What social media was initially called before they smelled the money.

πŸ“– Owned. Our created assets. Part of the content planning model, PESO. Which is not an Italian sauce.

πŸ“– Publicity. The BBC’s old-fashioned way of describing PR.

πŸ“– Quick. Speed is essential when responding to a crisis.

πŸ“– Relationship building. Has overtaken reputation as the foundation of PR.

πŸ“– Social Responsibility. Part of an organisation’s licence to operate.

πŸ“– Topical or timely. Is your press release that?

πŸ“– Universal. I am happy to see public relations associations in so many countries in all of the continents.

πŸ“– Values. Often incorporated into a purpose statement together with vision. Part of an organisation’s reason for being.

πŸ“– Wiki, a technique to aid collaboration.

πŸ“– X, much loved as Twitter. Now largely forgotten.

πŸ“– Yawn. Nearly there.

πŸ“– Zzzzzz. Well done if you got this far!

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