Digital & Technology

Content marketing is an element of many communicators’ daily work. But it can be challenging to tie back content marketing efforts to overall communications and business goals, from audience growth to fundraising. And while there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to successful content marketing, it’s most important to play to your strengths, sourcing content that’s close to home, according to Indiegogo’s director of integrated marketing, Kira Sparks.

Though VR and AR have become much more ubiquitous over the last three years, most businesses are still reticent to dive in. Last week, eMarketer shared infographics culled from a Harvard Business Review study in March 2018 that found while roughly two-thirds of U.S. executives polled claimed to be exploring the use of mixed reality (MR) technology, only 20% said they are “currently in production or deploying MR.”

Each month we ask communicators to turn over their toolkits and tell us what falls out. In other words, What tools and technologies are you using to do your job? We know few better to talk to about digital tools than than Michael Lamp, SVP, social & digital media at Hunter Public Relations and Brooks Wallace, the West Coast lead at Hollywood Agency.

Each month we ask communicators to unload their toolkits and tell us what falls out. In other words, What do you use to do your job? There are few better to talk about Facebook marketing than Ryder Meehan, principal & strategist, Meehan Digital, and a former social marketer at Fossil and Samsung, among others, and James Nickerson, lead instructor, digital marketing at General Assembly.

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At the IABC Conference in Montreal, a cross-industry panel of three senior business leaders opened up about the value of communications at their organizations. (Spoiler alert: Their comments were overwhelmingly positive.)

Each month we’ll be asking communicators to unload their toolkits and tell us what falls out. In other words, What do you use to do your job? There’s no better duo to begin this feature than Manu Muraro, founder of Your Social Team, and Danielle Brigida, national social media manager, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We asked them what tools they use to bolster their Instagram feeds.

In a world constantly disrupted by technological advances, how can we make sure we’re the ones making change, and that change isn’t making us? That was a question posited by keynote speaker and futurist Anab Jain at the International Association of Business Communicators’ World Conference in Montréal.

The digital in digital PR shouldn’t be reserved for promoting content, it should be the starting point for how we create content. Besides seeking trending topics and content gaps, digital tools can help analyze your competitors’ backlink profiles to establish opportunities. More than that, measuring digital data should inform your next steps, argues Kerry Sheahan, who heads content and PR at Britain’s Better. agency.

With Instagram boasting 800 million active monthly users and 80% of them following brands on the platform, we asked communicators for best practices for being successful on the graphic-based platform. They told us carefully picked influencers and attention to creating consistent visuals are critical.