Bizcommunity.com

Create/update your MyBiz Profile on Bizcommunity and win!

[Issued by Bizcommunity.com] Create or update your MyBiz Profile on Bizcommunity.com before 30 June 2013 and stand a chance to WIN an awesome GoPro camera and accessories worth over R6000! 18 Jun 2013 12:09

Volcano

Volcano PR opens up internship applications... via Twitter only!

[Issued by Volcano] This week, twitter-savvy aspiring PR professionals will have the opportunity to out-tweet each other for an internship or experiential training spot at the Volcano PR offices. Spurred by the influx of internship requests ahead of the university holidays, the team at Volcano PR decided to up the ante and allow prospective junior applicants to apply using only 280 characters - or two tweets - to grab the team's attention. 12 Jun 2013 11:38

The power of words

[James Hurford] In South Africa, there are over 4.7 million people who are completely illiterate as they've never had a day's school in their lives. A further 4.9 million are semiliterate to the point that the written word has no benefit to their quality of life. That means 9.6 million people are technically illiterate in South Africa - nearly 20% of the population. 11 Jun 2013 10:33

Culture via language

[Sanele Mgaga] One of the most overused but still very relevant quotes by former RSA president Nelson Mandela is "if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." 16 Jun 2013 08:18

How do you know you are made for the industry?

[Katlego Ledimo] You are a young, go-getting, want-to-know-it-all marketing and communications employee, but you are not sure if this is it... The main reason being that you are young and you have a 'lot of years ahead of you' as your boss always reminds you. 9 Jun 2013 06:09

The Role of Public Relations in the Marketing Mix

[Keith Schorah] Advertising is so often "in your face" and those of us that are interested are normally aware of a company's advertising campaigns, but how often are we familiar with the associated public relations activities? 8 May 2002 21:40

Ornico

Slaying the AVE dragon

[Francois van Dyk, Issued by Ornico] In preparation for the PR Measurement Summit held in March 2013 in Washington, DC, Ragan Communications and Nasdaq OMX did a global survey among 1500 public relations professionals on measurement with very interesting results. Such interesting results that I was compelled to go on a very long, and mostly cold, quest to dig a bit deeper in search of the magic formula that will defeat the dreaded AVE which is the bane of my life. 19 Jun 2013 10:56

Eight guidelines for report writing

[Tiffany Markman] You'll agree that what I'm about to say is not rocket science. Here goes: a report is written to be read by someone else. Now, if this is the central goal, a lot of your focus should fall on that 'someone else', and on giving them what they need, in a format that'll work for them, so that they read what you've written and rapidly agree with it. 7 Oct 2011 11:18

[2013 trends] The year ahead for experiential marketing

[Mike Silver] First of all, mazeltov on surviving the Mayan apocalypse - it was touch-and-go for a second there. Now that we have staved off global obliteration and picked up a coastal tan (and a few kilos in the process), it's that time of the year where agencies are asked to haul out the old crystal ball and provide pearls of thumb-sucking wisdom. 29 Jan 2013 11:18

Bizcommunity.com

How to contribute to Bizcommunity, from op-ed pieces to news

[Issued by Bizcommunity.com] Bizcommunity.com has now expanded its operations into 16 new sectors and will soon venture into another 17, providing a whole new range of target audiences for advertisers. The most critical aspect of this is the quality of content and this is a formal invitation to you to become a recognised contributor on Bizcommunity. 3 Oct 2011 14:57

[Cannes Lions 2011] SA's winning work: Film Lions

CANNES, FRANCE: The Film, Film Craft, Creative Effectiveness and Titanium and Integrated Lions awards ceremony took place on Saturday night, 25 June 2011. Ogilvy Johannesburg scooped a Silver Film Lion and a Bronze Film Lion, FoxP2 a Silver Film Lion and JWT Johannesburg a Bronze Film Lion, too. Here is their winning work [showcase] 27 Jun 2011 14:32

[Cannes Lions 2013] Cannes Lions introduces Lions Health

CANNES, FRANCE: The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is set to launch Lions Health next year, a new two-day independent festival and awards celebrating creative communications in healthcare, wellness and sustainability. 13 Jun 2013 16:13

Content is at the heart of great PR

[Janine Lloyd] At the heart of any great public relations and communications strategy is the creation of great content and loads of it. 3 Jun 2013 16:15