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Participants of this Case in Point will learn how to set organizations up for success before they are faced with misinformation as well as help them navigate through a disinformation crisis.

Join a New York Times reporter, top communications executive and leading national PR agency for the release of a new survey about what journalists want in today’s new landscape.

Put down the fire hose and pick up your crystal ball. Change how we approach comms today, lest we die tomorrow.

This dynamic skills-based program will empower managers, team leaders and supervisors to achieve high-performance performance every day, through effective, consistent workplace communication based on emerging management best practices.

Content marketing is one of the most in-demand skill sets needed by today's successful communication professionals. PRSA’s Content Marketing Certificate Program is designed to teach and empower you to develop content strategies and tactics with quantifiable business outcomes.

Most PR pros send pitches that are destined to fail. If your pitch arrives like everyone else’s, it’ll be treated like everyone else’s — it’ll be ignored. In this course, you’ll see how to craft a pitch that gets noticed and gain tools to become a master of the cold email pitch. Discover skills that go beyond the reach of an average PR pro. Effectively measure what you do so your client/employer knows what they’re getting from your efforts.

This comprehensive e-learning course offers in-depth approaches to leveraging key components of marketing, media and advertising to accelerate PR campaign results. Divided into five learning modules, this course will position you to lead integrated marketing communications campaigns from start to finish.

This comprehensive e-learning course teaches communicators how to use integration as a powerful tool in any communications practice. This five-hour course provides a review of integrated marketing concepts, followed by ways to learn about your specific audiences, develop integrated strategies and tactics that work together to boost results, and effectively manage your work in a planned, synchronous fashion.

Effective crisis communication can help organizations maintain trust, inspire consumer confidence and build competitive advantage. Recent poorly handled crises in business, government and nonprofits show how ineffective crisis communication can set an organization back significantly.

Equip yourself with best practices within digital content strategy, personas, digital storytelling, writing for SEO and the web, digital innovation, and the measurement of digital communication.

In this webinar, we will come together to talk about how our workplaces and PRSA can achieve diversity and inclusion goals by uncovering our own implicit biases, building diverse teams and recognizing the value and strengths in cultures we consider different.

The Executive Communication Online Series, consisting of six sessions, will enable you to transition from a traditional communication pro to an expert strategic communicator aligning with specific business goals. Throughout the program, you’ll be learning skills you can start applying to your work immediately.

In this one-hour webinar, public relations pro Stephen Dupont, APR, vice president of public relations and branded content, Pocket Hercules, shares his insights about what’s around the corner for PR and communications professionals in 2022 as well as the years ahead.

In this webinar, PR and communications professionals will hear more about these communities and issues as they learn concrete steps to incorporate inclusiveness in critical business functions of their work and improve their own career competencies.

The PESO model takes the four media types — paid, earned, shared and owned — and merges them together for an integrated — and measurable — communications program. Most of the industry had adopted the model, but not many truly know how it all works together and drives business results. Join Gini Dietrich, the founder and author of Spin Sucks and creator of the PESO model, to learn how to implement it within your organization. In this three-module course, you will learn: What the PESO model i

Learn how strategic storytelling can shape our organizations, build connection, and bring about change. Using as a framework the principles of strategic communication outlined by PRSA (research, planning, implementation and evaluation), you will learn how to: Identify stories within your organization that may be overlooked. Analyze stories for common themes that tie back into your organization's goals. Repurpose content to amplify stories with the right audiences.

Learn how to incorporate appropriate language and imagery with a human lens in public relations campaigns. Strategy and tactical inclusion tips covered during the webinar are centered on person-first, multicultural, LGBTQ+ and economically disenfranchised communities.

Inclusion is part of the employee experience as our industry continues to tackle the lack of diversity among our organizations and teams. This webinar addresses the topic of covering and why inclusion is about bringing your whole authentic self to the workplace.

Strategic integrated communication can help organizations streamline efforts and significantly boost results by focusing on synergy, alignment and measurement. Learn how to identify best practices within integrated marketing concepts for specific audiences in order to develop strategies and tactics that work together to boost results.

How do you ensure the continuity of your organization during COVID-19? How can you demonstrate to your staff the same care you would deliver to your best customer? These days, your employees feel unsettled — even scared. Sharing information quickly and clearly is essential to their well-being.