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This is a series of posts about how to set up an international PR strategy. Read the previous posts about culture and market, resources and connections, crisis management, timing and relevance and some tips from the International PR manager Alexandra Aguirre.

Losing your job is extremely difficult. Being unemployed for over a year can feel hopeless. Psychologist Art Markman Answers.

A station reporter emailed me yesterday and mentioned that he was always looking for free or no cost tools for his newsroom. Recently these two resources were mentioned on the NICAR listserv:

Free Tools for Digital Journalism Storytelling

Google Doc full of Free Storytelling/Journalism Tools

5 Reasons Why Employers Don’t Respond After a Job Interview | Mashable (via nycworkforce1)

Putting a person at the controls increased traffic and engagement by just about every measure. Now the question becomes: Is that boost worth the extra human effort?

The Hell of Networking

"All the career manuals say it: to get ahead on the work front, you have to keep expanding your network. But for a lot of women, there’s something about networking that doesn’t appeal. Actually there are a lot of things that don’t appeal, from the difficulty of walking up to total strangers and introducing yourself to the feeling of fakeness networking can sometimes induce - not to mention that many networking opportunities are focused around male interests. That said, there are probably men who also dread networking. But women aren’t doing it to the same degree men are, and when they try, they hit barriers. Women’s careers are suffering as a result.

In this show, I talk to three guests about how to get over the horror of networking, why it’s important, and how a huge network - and a dash of daring - have helped one woman’s career.”

***I haven’t listened yet. I loathe networking but I assumed everyone did.

An Interview with publicist Alyson Roy and fashion & beauty writer Kristin Booker, written by Alyson Roy

By Alyson Roy

Sometimes you want to share the report page for a press release with coworkers, your client, your manager or your mom. We just added the option to easily share a press release report by sharing a secret link.

You can find the share option at the bottom of the report page.

You just published a press release. Big ups! Now it’s time to share it with the world. How can you make your press release interesting for your Twitter followers? How can you maximize the exposure of your nicely crafted content?

It’s getting harder everyday for companies and startups to share their news with the world. While the newsworthiness criteria have not changed much in the last few years, the markets we work in are getting more and more crowded. The attention of potential customers is getting harder to gain.

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