We Want to Know: What Makes You Work Passionately?
This guest post is by Liz Corcoran, Director Organizational Development and Jenna Hunke, Internal Communications Specialist, Cision Human Resources. Here at Cision, we’re nearing the one-year mark of...
View Article30 day challenge: Chromebook Pixel
For May 2013 I decided to try making a Chromebook Pixel my primary laptop. So how did it go? Well, the short version is that I’m still a happy Pixel user, almost three months after my one month...
View ArticleWeekly Feature for Fashion & Beauty Fanatics: Q&A with Domenic...
Image courtesy of Dominic Bartlett-Roylance As a male fashion blogger in a female-dominated industry, Australian Dominic Bartlett-Roylance has experienced his fair share of challenges. Although he...
View ArticleQUART – The 5 SEO Super-Signals by @alanbleiweiss
The overwhelming majority of sites that I audit have been hammered by either Panda, Penguin, or both. Sure, there are some sites where the drop in rankings can’t even correlate to a known Panda or...
View Article7 PR Pitches That Will Get My Attention Every Time
#8: Oh, and Matt Harvey’s pitches get my attention every time too. Photo courtesy of slgckgc via Flickr. Like many content creators, I lead a double life. Triple life, even. I do marketing and social...
View ArticleWeekly Feature for Fashion & Beauty Fanatics: Q&A with Brooke Pakulski of...
Photo courtesy of Brooke Pakulski This week we heard from Brooke Pakulski, whose blog, Blushing Noir, started out as a way to chronicle her day-to-day life but eventually turned into a tribute to her...
View Article30 day challenge: record a second of video every day
For June 2013, my 30 day challenge was to record a second of video every day. I was inspired by Cesar Kuriyama’s wonderful TED talk about how he records a second of video every day. There’s a couple...
View ArticleWeekly Feature for Fashion & Beauty Fanatics: Q&A with Kat Chang of Love & Ace
Courtesy of Kat Chang Los Angeles fashion blogger Kat Chang is relatively new to the blogging scene, but has plenty of experience working with the designers behind the looks. When she decided to share...
View Article5 Do’s and Don’ts for Social Media Week
Photo courtesy of br1dotcom via Flickr For those who live in Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Mumbai, São Paulo, Berlin, Bogotá or Torino—huzzah, the day is here! Registration is now open for...
View ArticleWeekly Feature for Fashion & Beauty Fanatics: Q&A with Sarah Park of The...
Sarah Park of The Weekend Diary. As a PR professional and blogger, Sarah Park of The Weekend Diary is a double threat. She showcases her personal style, beauty tips and healthy recipes on her blog,...
View ArticleHow Big Data is Changing PR
This is a guest post by Michele Nemschoff, Vice President, Corporate Marketing, MapR TechnologiesResearch and measurement: the long standing bane of any PR pro with a limited budget and a tactically...
View ArticleWeekly Feature for Fashion & Beauty Fanatics: Q&A with Nancy Weinberg Simon...
Photo courtesy of Weinberg Simon Nancy Weinberg Simon is no rookie when it comes to all things beauty and fashion. After years working as a modeling agent and then as the beauty editor at Family...
View ArticleSecuring your Google Account after a possible hack
A couple friends have recently had security scares with their Gmail account where they were worried that their accounts might have been hacked. I was emailing one of them about how to make sure that...
View ArticleCision & nyc PR girls host #prchat
Tweet Pen it in and join us and nyc PR girls! We’ll be talking about content and how it has changed the industry, as well as the impact of social media, video and bloggers. Take a look at our resources...
View ArticleWhy Your Business Can’t Survive Without PR and SEO
This is a guest post by Chelsi Stenger, search media networker at DigitalRelevance. Historically, PR and SEO have worked in parallel as two separate practices. Now, the walls are coming down and each...
View ArticleInternational Fashion Magazine Talks Media Industry, Success
This is a guest post by Falk Rehkopf, Managing Director of Cision Germany. Image courtesy of Schön! Magazine. We invite you to take on a global mindset as we talk to Raoul Keil, editor in chief of...
View ArticleWeekly Feature for Fashion & Beauty Fanatics: Q&A with Teri Cosenzi of...
Photo courtesy of Teri Cosenzi As an early adopter of online beauty writing, Teri Cosenzi has turned her experiences into a full-time career, with a large and dedicated following for her blog,...
View Article4 Journalist Secrets Every PR Should Know
Illustration by Teresa Dankowski Last month I wrote a post, 7 PR Pitches That Will Get My Attention Every Time, wherein I listed my favorite pitching practices, backed by my not-so-secret triple...
View Article30 day challenge: better email handling
Some relatives were visiting this past week, so my inbox has a triple digit backlog. That’s after aggressive pruning of mailing lists and so on. Nearly all of those emails mention me in a “to:” or...
View ArticleWeekly Feature for Fashion & Beauty Fanatics: Q&A with Nancy Houlmont of...
Photo courtesy of Houlmont After working as a cosmetics department manager and fielding questions from friends and family on the hottest new beauty lines, Nancy Houlmont decided to take her love for...
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