Please enjoy Friday's Daily PR Brief - March 26, 2021

Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
Discord, the $10 billion dollar social media app that PR pros shouldn't sleep on (Muck Rack Blog - March 26, 2021)
Why The Most Memorable — And Powerful — PR Is Personal (Forbes - March 26, 2021)
PR's Top Pros Talk: Beth Monaghan (O'Dwyer's - March 25, 2021) [VIDEO]
Is brand purpose overblown? (PR Daily - March 26, 2021)
Setting Boundaries Can Help Social Media Managers Avoid Burnout (PR News - March 26, 2021)
PR Pioneer Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) (Institute for Public Relations - March 26, 2021)
AMA: Media Pitching, Tech Stack Expertise, and Reddit (Spin Sucks - March 26, 2021)
How the NRA Views Public Relations. Let's Listen in. (Ishmael's Corner - March 26, 2021)
Good and Bad PR: Cheers for Waitrose and BrewDog, boos for BT (PRmoment (UK) - March 25, 2021)
Why is blogging important? (Axia Public Relations - March 26, 2021)
Summary Section:
Discord, the $10 billion dollar social media app that PR pros shouldn't sleep on
By Stephen Karaolis
Muck Rack Blog - March 26, 2021
What is Discord and can it be leveraged by PR pros? This professional says yes, and explains why.
Why The Most Memorable — And Powerful — PR Is Personal
By Jodi Amendola, CEO of Amendola
Forbes - March 26, 2021
As the CEO of a healthcare, health IT and life sciences-focused public relations and marketing agency for the past 18 years, one thing I've learned is that the most impactful PR you can deliver is personal in some way.
PR's Top Pros Talk: Beth Monaghan [VIDEO]
By Steve Barnes
O'Dwyer's - March 25, 2021
Following a period of "intense crisis work," Inkhouse founder and CEO Beth Monaghan shares some of the secrets of effective crisis communications with Doug Simon in the latest "PR's Top Pros Talk" video interview.
Is brand purpose overblown?
By Maarten Albarda
PR Daily - March 26, 2021
Consumers say they want companies to act ethically, but not many are willing to alter their purchasing habits — or sacrifice comfort for convenience.
Setting Boundaries Can Help Social Media Managers Avoid Burnout
By Erika Bradbury
PR News - March 26, 2021
Instead of looking to others to give them help, social media managers should start by helping themselves with self-care tactics.
PR Pioneer Ida Tarbell (1857-1944)
Institute for Public Relations - March 26, 2021
IPR has partnered with The Museum of Public Relations to feature some of the many female PR Pioneers in celebration of Women's History Month. Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) was one of the leading muckrakers of the Gilded Age and was a pioneer of investigative journalism.
AMA: Media Pitching, Tech Stack Expertise, and Reddit
By Gini Dietrich, Founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich
Spin Sucks - March 26, 2021
On this week's Spin Sucks AMA, Gini Dietrich answers questions about media pitching, tech stack team members, AMAs on Reddit, and more.
How the NRA Views Public Relations. Let's Listen in.
By Lou Hoffman, CEO of the Hoffman Agency
Ishmael's Corner - March 26, 2021
Recent mass shootings have put gun control back in the public spotlight. It's instructive to go back in time to examine the NRA's PR effort.
Good and Bad PR: Cheers for Waitrose and BrewDog, boos for BT
By Andy Barr, Owner, 10 Yetis Digital
PRmoment (UK) - March 25, 2021
Hey hey media addicts, here I am again with the latest Good and Bad from the world of public relations. The weather is getting warmer which means that the journalists are getting friendlier, and the clients are loving everything that we all do… right?
Why is blogging important?
By Maria Gimeno
Axia Public Relations - March 26, 2021
Blogs are regularly updated websites or web pages that are used to inform the audience on a specific topic. For example, as a PR agency, we created our Axia Public Relations blog to provide knowledge, insight, and advice about PR that might attract people in the same industry or those who are looking for a PR agency.
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