Today, Mynewsdesk announces the appointment of Tina Sörqvist, currently the Global HR Director at Tobii Dynavox, as new Chief People Officer. Tina will start her new position by the end of June, 2018.
World PR Forum, the world’s number one international PR and communications conference, is now happening in Oslo, Norway. Global Alliance is in charge of running the event and chooses a local host county each year. For this year’s occasion, Norway and the communications association Kommunikasjonsforeningen will welcome delegates from more than 30 countries.
Most organizations today should be GDPR compliant already. And hopefully, most organizations will avoid the fines and embrace the opportunities that GDPR will bring to the PR industry. However, only time will reveal the actual impact these regulations will have on businesses.
“So we know that across the industry, definite answers are quite rare. Answers directly related to how do we interpret GDPR and what we need to do to be compliant are hard to find,” Daniel Jonsson, head of data analysis and project manager of the GDPR compliance project at Mynewsdesk.
May 25th is just around the corner. Although there’s a lot of content about GDPR out there, few of them address the implications of what GDPR means to the PR and communications industry.
Only one out of five journalists are open to working for brands, according to a report that Mynewsdesk releases today. It’s the fourth report from the annual journalist survey, and it explores journalists views on brand journalism and what companies need to do to attract new talent.
PR SaaS company Mynewsdesk and Ragan Communications partner to make digital PR and communications easy for brand communicators across the U.S. The partnership is announced by Mark Ragan, Ragan Communications CEO, at the Social Media Conference in Orlando later today.
Journalists worry about the consolidation of power in giant social media companies - a concern that has become more apparent during the last couple of years, Mynewsdesk’s latest report reveals. Of the journalists surveyed, 71% believe Facebook has too much power as a source of information, and 61% cited they think Google/YouTube has too much power.
Mynewsdesk can confirm a strong year in 2017. According CEO Mattias Malmström, the success is due to continued international growth - and Mynewsdesk currently have users in over 100 countries.
Today, Mynewsdesk is releasing the second part of this year’s journalist survey - “A Case of Overconfidence”. And the message is clear - journalists are far from satisfied with the quality of the content they receive from PR professionals.
It’s that time again - ‘New Year, New You’. We all wake up on January 1st with a determination to be ‘better’; we set ourselves resolutions to improve fitness, eat healthier and generally get on top of things. But sometimes these promises are tough to stick to. And that can be the same in an industry like PR and Communications. This is why it’s important to set yourself SMART goals:
With the New Year now in full swing, we asked a handful of experts to share their PR predictions for 2018. Common themes that emerged included automation, artificial intelligence and the lethal combination of art and science. Here's what Ali Maynard, Stephen Waddington, Jonathan Bean and Laura Richards had to say:
