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Ditch the content treadmill
We need to ditch the content treadmill. We shouldn’t create content for the sake of creating content. To keep up with our self-imposed content calendar.
Rather content creation should always begin with the end in mind. What are we trying to achieve? What actions are we trying to encourage from those reading, listening, watching our content?
BUILDING PURPOSE & PRINCIPLE WITHIN BUSINESS
A firm’s values go beyond their statements of mission and vision. Values and principles shouldn’t be instruments of external image management. Rather they are ethical commitments to different stakeholder interests. Modern PR helps firms lift these promises off the ‘About Us’ section of the corporate website and bed them down as part of the firm’s DNA. Over time these principles become the base upon which the decisions and actions of employees are made.
Public relations professionals should help organisational leaders articulate what the company stands for and how it can live up to what it says it is. In other words public relations professionals should play a major part in developing the organisation’s corporate values and ethics from which positive action is driven.
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