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June 22, 2012

In the Mix…LCWA Announces 2012 Work-Related Email Perception Study

“Email overload” is taxing companies around the globe and driving major organizations to ban afterhours – and even work time – emails completely. As internal communication and research experts, we wanted to know: is email indispensible, irritating or detrimental to today’s business communications? In a comprehensive, quantitative study, the LCWA Research Team surveyed employees at various organizational levels – from
June 15, 2012

Favorite Finds

If you are following our Twitter feed then you already know it’s been a whirlwind week for Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms. As always, we’ve been keeping our eyes out for great stories: Only 140 Characters?: Twitter’s expanded tweets will display the first few lines of articles text of an article and even video right on the Twitter
June 8, 2012

Favorite Finds

You really do learn something new every day – especially if you’re keeping an eye on your Twitter feed!  Here are some stories that made us stop and think this week: Where’s the News?  A PR News/PRWeb survey finds that 19 percent of press releases don’t have a specific objective.   Twitter Knows When You Sleep:  The New York Times reports
June 1, 2012

Favorite Finds

It may have been a short week work-wise, but the world of public relations is always buzzing!  Here are some of the interesting headlines we found this week related to social media and the PR industry: Tweaking Twitter: Some suggestions from Social Media Today on how to improve the popular social media site #Hashtag 101: Handy guidelines for using that