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April 5, 2012 PMBA Toolkit: Marketing and Social Media: Policies and Procedures WebinarJoin us on Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 2:00 PM ET for a robust discussion on how to make Twitter and Facebook an effective marketing tool for your station. During this webinar, Constance Crawford and Al Gibes of Capital Public Radio will walk you through the who, what and with what rules. They will also share some “lessons learned the hard way” about protecting your brand when using social media. You will see examples of how social media drove traffic to content. |
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April 2, 2012 April is Public Radio Music Month! |
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March 31, 2012 Early Registration Expires!Save $50 per attendee by registering with the Early Bird rate! |
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March 27, 2012 Memo to CEOs: Stop Blathering About Innovation and Do SomethingWe wanted to get behind the catchword “innovation” and learn more about the best practices of companies that are successful innovators and find out why others consistently come up short. |
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March 22, 2012 Want to Improve Customer Service? Treat Your Employees BetterTo do customer service well requires investment, observers say, while also acknowledging that, in an era of budget cuts and downsizing, it is an investment not every company can afford to make. For those firms, there are lower cost ways to enhance service such as adopting human resource policies to make sure employees are satisfied in their jobs and convey that satisfaction to customers. |
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March 20, 2012 The Magic of Doing One Thing at a TimeTell the truth: Do you answer email during conference calls (and sometimes even during calls with one other person)? Do you bring your laptop to meetings and then pretend you're taking notes while you surf the net? Do you eat lunch at your desk? Do you make calls while you're driving, and even send the occasional text, even though you know you shouldn't? The biggest cost — assuming you don't crash — is to your productivity. |
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March 19, 2012 Pubmedia Partners Give Reporters a Map to States That are Hard, and Soft, on CorruptionThe results of an accountability journalism project, released this morning by Public Radio International and two nonprofit news partners, pairs a data-rich website with public radio news coverage to report on the strength of state governments’ anti-corruption safeguards. |
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March 14, 2012 Tying It All TogetherNPR’s new leadership team places a heavy emphasis on a multiplatform approach. |
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March 12, 2012 Alvarado: Change cannot be a complaintOne of pubcasting’s most vocal advocates for a digital-era overhaul of the field. |
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March 8, 2012 Small Businesses Staying Lean, Wary Of HiringAppearing on NPR, CFO Magazines's Kate O'Sullivan said the recession taught small businesses to do more with less. The latest Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook Survey shows that 25% of small businesses never expect to return to pre-recession payrolls, NPR noted. |
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