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COVID-19 Communication For Transitioning Employees Back Into The Workplace
Katie Hickman, Senior Account Executive at Maccabee In the wake of COVID-19, your employees are experiencing a wide range of emotions: fear, angst, stress, anxiety and even anger. As employers explore what it looks like to bring its workforce back on site, it’s important to note that 70% of employees surveyed said that several factors…
Read MoreTelos Blockchain Launches The Epios Project for Anonymous COVID-19 Testing
CommPRO Editorial Staff The Telos blockchain has just launched The Epios Project to facilitate anonymous disease testing, starting with COVID-19. Epios uses a new, patent-pending method for recording anonymous information within a system requiring disclosure of personally identifiable information. Its mobile app, which will be released later this month, will connect people seeking anonymous testing…
Read MoreHow Do Employees Rate Their Company’s Communication in COVID-19?
Tina McCorkindale, Ph.D., APR, President and CEO, Institute for Public Relations Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Institute for Public Relations has conducted four studies, with partners such as Peppercomm, Harris Insights, and Leger, to determine how communication departments and agencies are handling the COVID-19 pandemic internally. The fifth study, an e-book featuring exclusive in-depth…
Read MoreGlobal Citizen And The European Commission Mobilize $1.5 Billion In Cash Grants, And $5.4 Billion In Loans And Guarantees–For A Total Of $6.9 Billion Pledged–To Combat The Disproportionate Impact Of COVID-19 On Vulnerable And Disadvantaged Communities
CommPRO Editorial Staff International advocacy organization Global Citizen and the European Commission (EC) today hosted Global Goal: Unite for Our Future – The Summit and The Concert, as part of a global campaign to coordinate the development of COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines, and to ensure equitable access to everyone, everywhere. Building on the success of the European Union’s May 4th pledging conference, the Global Goal:…
Read MoreKearney Research: LGBTQ+ Community Marches on Despite COVID-19 Halt to Pride Month Parades
CommPRO Editorial Staff You can cancel a parade, but you can’t keep a powerful community from marching forward, new research from global strategy and management consulting firm Kearney, finds. Unstoppable for 50 years: LGBTQ+ Pride marches forward, a report released today, notes that this year’s Pride Month, the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, comes during an…
Read MoreCommunication in the Time of COVID-19: Let Data Guide Your Plan
Brian Cluster, Director of Industry Strategy – CPG & Retail, Stibo Systems In the wake of COVID-19 stay-in-place measures, today’s shoppers rely more heavily on e-commerce than ever. Many would like to go back to the way things were pre-pandemic – but even if a vaccine were found today, a return to crowded malls is…
Read MoreBinance Charity Pioneers COVID-19 Relief With First-Ever Fully-Transparent Campaign
CommPRO Editorial Staff After providing aid to hospitals in China, Italy, and Spain, among other countries ravaged by COVID-19, Binance Charity, the blockchain-powered non-profit transforming charitable giving, has furthered its relief efforts providing thousands of personal protective equipment (PPE) materials to one of the regions most affected by coronavirus in the world: New York City.…
Read MoreComputing for a Cause: CPUcoin and BOINC to Power COVID-19 Research through IBM World Community Grid and Rosetta@home
CommPRO Editorial Staff CPUcoin (cpucoin.io), developers of the sharing economy for computing power, today announced a new program that incentivizes social responsibility to support COVID-19 research, by simply providing access to unused computing power. The process is straightforward: Download and install CPUcoin’s CGN Miner and BOINC, then select from two COVID-19 research projects, IBM World…
Read MoreCenter for Disaster Philanthropy Awards $500,000 to Action Against Hunger for COVID-19 Relief in East Africa
Source: NGO Wire Action Against Hunger, a global humanitarian and development organization, has been awarded $500,000 from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s (CDP) COVID-19 Response Fund to provide immediate relief for nearly 300,000 people in East Africa affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant prioritizes Somalia, where Action Against Hunger is one of the few…
Read MoreThe Effects of COVID-19 on U.S Marijuana and Cannabis Product Consumers (INFOGRAPHIC)
Alan Wood, Founder, Weekend Gardner We’ve come a long way since marijuana was first decriminalized in 1973 in Oregon. Since medical marijuana was first legalized in California, the popularity of cannabis and marijuana products has grown significantly. In 2016, the global legal cannabis market was valued at $14.3 billion U.S. dollars and is forecast to…
Read MoreAdvertising’s Great Reset: COVID-19 and Purchasing Behaviors
Jon Waterman, Founder and CEO of Ad.net As COVID-19 continues to permeate the United States, it’s shuttered businesses, disrupted supply chains, caused skyrocketing unemployment, and changed how people perceive cleanliness and health. Similar to the 2008 market crash, the pandemic’s economic impact has reset consumer behavior and expectations. It’s changing how we value and spend…
Read MoreThe COVID-19 Reset: Behavioral Change – A Growth Opportunity
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Read MoreThe National Press Club: Educating Through The COVID-19 Crisis
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Read MoreIdeko and Finn Partners Tapped By Hip Hop Public Health To Elevate Awareness of Critical Covid-19 Safety Protocols Through “20 Seconds or More”
CommPRO Editorial Staff From the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in New York, an inspirational spark has ignited a national movement – 20 Seconds or More – galvanizing urban communities to comply with the safety protocols necessary to stop the spread of the disease. New York-based, global marketing communications firm Finn Partners and experiential production…
Read MoreBounceX Launches SMS to Help Retailers Recover Lost COVID-19 Revenue
Company aims to drive additional 10% of online revenue with new channel through focus on one-to-one messaging CommPRO Editorial Staff BounceX (soon to be Wunderkind), a performance marketing technology, announced today that it is making its SMS marketing product available to new clients. The product opens a new channel for retailers looking to boost e-commerce…
Read MoreThe COVID-19 Reset: Strategy, Marketing & Communications for a New World (Complimentary Webinar)
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Read MoreCOVID-19’s Impact on Sustainability: 3 Trends in Media Coverage
Ellen Mallernee Barnes, Vice President of Content; Stephanie Clarke, Vice President; Lesley Sillaman, Senior Vice President; Linda Descano, Executive Vice President; Deanna Tomaselli, Account Supervisor; and Audrey Arbogast, Senior Account Executive at Red Havas Had this past April been an ordinary April, the news media would have likely done its usual flurry of Earth Month—and…
Read MoreCracking the Coverage Code Amidst COVID-19
Gregg Castano, Founder and CEO of News Direct With the COVID-19 pandemic unleashing an avalanche of news releases and story pitches onto already time and resource strapped journalists, it has become an almost herculean task for PR practitioners to flag their attention, much less earn coverage for their client or employer. The least effective way…
Read MoreFive Things Every Business Owner Should Be Doing to Prepare for a Post-COVID-19 World
Melody Wolff What am I going to do to recoup lost revenue? What should I be doing today in order to prepare for tomorrow? These are the questions currently keeping business owners up at night. While most areas of the United States and elsewhere are starting to think about re-opening, countries that were hit first…
Read MoreLeadership During COVID-19 – Perspective from Ken Jacobs, Communications Industry Executive Coach (VIDEO)
Communications industry coach Ken Jacobs shares perspective on leading during the pandemic, in the latest of our 3-minute Communicators-to-Communicators videos. Principal of Jacobs Consulting & Executive Coaching, Jacobs is a CommunicationsMatch™ partner. In response to the question: What does it take to be a successful leader during the pandemic and has this changed? he notes that…
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