The New PR Toolkit: Strategies for Successful Media Relations (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books) - Softcover

Breakenridge, Deirdre K.; DeLoughry, Thomas J.

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9780130090256: The New PR Toolkit: Strategies for Successful Media Relations (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)

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ISBN 10: 0130090255 ISBN 13: 9780130090256

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2003

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The New PR Toolkit delivers proven strategies and tactics for using today's most powerful new online communications tools to strengthen any brand and every stakeholder relationship. Drawing on detailed case studies, the authors offer no-holds-barred assessments and practical guidelines for using e-mail, online newsletters, chat, Web newsrooms, online brand monitoring, and other new tools. Contains a complete blueprint for maximizing the strategic value of communications in your organization.

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About the Author:

Deirdre Breakenridge is an author, entrepreneur and CEO of Pure Performance Communications. A 20 + year veteran in PR and marketing, she is the author of five FT Press books including her latest titles, Social Media and Public Relations: Eight New Practices for the PR Professional, Putting the Public Back in Public Relations, and PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences.

Deirdre speaks both nationally and internationally on the topics of PR, social media and marketing. She is a recognized PR blogger at PR 2.0 strategies, and also the co-founder of #PRStudChat, a dynamic twitter chat with PR professionals, educators and students.

THOMAS J. DeLOUGHRY is a freelance writer with more than 15 years of experience in journalism. He is a former Executive Editor of Internet World magazine, where he had a front-row seat for the dot-com craze. He began writing about information technology for The Chronicle of Higher Education, a Washington, D.C.-based weekly, in 1987 when the Internet was primarily the domain of professors and researchers. He's also been a Contributing Editor to InternetWeek magazine and has written for several other magazines and newspapers.

Synopsis:

By now, PR professionals are well aware that a host of new tools have been created to transform their profession, presenting new opportunities and challenges for anyone using PR to strengthen brands and stakeholder relationships. The New PR Toolkit takes PR to the next level, offering a complete blueprint for PR strategy and execution that draws on up-to-the-minute case studies and today's most creative public relations work. From opt-in newsletters to Internet-based brand monitoring tools, Webcasts to self-service press Web sites, this is the first book to show professional communicators how to make the most of all the new tools available to them. Deirdre Breakenridge and Thomas J. DeLoughry place the new PR tools in perspective, showing how to effectively integrate online and offline marketing, address privacy issues, and use the Net as a proactive crisis management tool. They conclude with a compelling preview of the future of PR, and a practical roadmap for becoming a strategic communicator.

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