In The News

• Don’t miss Friday’s Employee Communications Awards deadline October 23, 2020
  Ragan will showcase the best internal communications and remote work—and the Top Places to Work. Complete your entry by this Friday, Oct. 23, at 11:59 p.m. Central time. The post Don’t miss Friday’s Employee Communications Awards deadline appeared first on PR Daily.
• How isolation could be affecting your employees during the COVID-19 pandemic October 23, 2020
  Experts from Virgin Pulse explored how social distancing and WFH could be affecting well-being—and what you can do to help. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone differently, but there’s one common experience being shared worldwide: isolation. With ongoing remote work, widespread school closures and continued restrictions, individuals are finding themselves removed from the social relationships […]
• Why you must prepare for crises beyond COVID-19 October 23, 2020
  Things can always get worse, right? It’s unpleasant to consider, but comms pros must be vigilant to mitigate the damage done by unforeseen events. Never in my almost 40 years of crisis management experience have I ever I have seen an America more prone to erupt in new crises than right now. No one likes […]
• Gap to shut 350 stores by 2024, Burger King tests resuable packaging, and Girl Scouts chapter launches ‘anti-racism’ patch October 23, 2020
  Also: Twitter conversations about mental wellness and wellbeing are rising, UK resort looks to save the hedgehogs, KFC UK and Ireland makes royal puns, and more. Hello, communicators: United Kingdom-based Parkdean Resorts boosted buzz by introducing a sustainability initiative: It’s protecting hedgehogs with a special “Hibernation Holiday Park”: Though the resort’s message carries a serious […]
• How one podcast anchors a community-building campaign for nurses October 23, 2020
  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation created an engagement program to help address the everyday lives of nurses and help tell their stories. At its heart is a podcast featuring real stories from the front lines. If you want to change health care in the U.S., then helping the men and women who work in health […]
• How GreenRoom’s Emily Bertioli has adapted during COVID-19 October 23, 2020
  After a jump across the Atlantic Ocean, this PR had to quickly adjust to the realities of the global pandemic while finding her feet. Starting a job in a new country is always an adjustment, but that move came with an added wrinkle for Emily Bertioli. Originally from the U.K., she moved from London to […]
• Quibi calls it quits, Hotels.com offers ‘Friendsgiving’ retreat, and Innocent Drinks tweets its DE&I accountability October 22, 2020
  Also: The Hershey Co. offers Reeses Halloween treat machine, Bark Box live-tweets during ‘The Bachelorette,’ Facebook provides the most content engagement, and more. Hello, communicators:        As organizations are shifting their Black Friday strategies, Hotels.com is offering a “socially distant Friendsgiving” that allows the winning consumer a week-long “escape from election week”: Friendsgiving on Zoom […]