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India Faces COVID-19 Crisis: Action Against Hunger Responds with Medical, Mental Health and Food Aid
CommPRO Editorial Staff India is facing an unprecedented public health crisis with the latest wave of COVID-19. The nonprofit Action Against Hunger is supporting COVID-19 prevention and treatment, while working to ensure this medical crisis doesn’t become a hunger crisis by delivering relief resources worth $1.5 million in the coming months. This includes 30,000 PPE…
Read MorePR in a Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on the News Cycle
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Read MoreThree Business Technology Trends to Prepare for in the Wake of COVID-19
Robert Castles, Principal and Chief Technology Officer, PMG 2020 was a pivotal year in so many ways, and global events stemming from the pandemic continue to affect businesses and the technology they use. Not only did formerly thriving organizations shut their doors permanently, but the workflows of those that survived were thrown for a loop…
Read MoreEqual Pay Day: Impact of COVID-19 & Women in the Workforce (Clubhouse Event)
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Read MoreHow Nursing Homes Can Recover from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Brian Wallace, Founder & President, NowSourcing 2020 was a horrific year for nursing homes. Of the 500,000+ American deaths from COVID-19, 36% were care facility residents or staff. In some states, that figure was as high as 54%. While the older generations and those with health issues are uniquely vulnerable in the pandemic, several missteps taken…
Read MoreHow Do Employees Rate Employers’ COVID-19 Wellness Efforts?
New data reveals 15 companies that are receiving high marks from workers. Robby Brumberg Are you pleased with how your employer has handled the COVID-19 crisis thus far? Have your leaders stepped up to provide crucial resources, support and tangible relief—or has the pandemic exposed a glaring lack of empathy and compassion? Many…
Read MoreTo the Edge and Back: What 2020 & COVID-19 Taught Me about Running a Business
Craig Howe, CEO of Rebel Ventures I could tell our Operations Manager was nervous the moment I picked up the phone. “We only have $16k left in the bank,” she said after working up some courage. As the CEO, I immediately went into problem solving mode. What about our Payroll Protection Plan? “Spent.” What…
Read MoreThat Said with Michael Zeldin – Guest, Debora MacKenzie, Author, “Covid-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One”
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Read MoreIdentifying and Addressing Mental Illness Hot Spots Caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic
CommPRO Editorial Staff Mental Health America (MHA), along with Lundbeck, announce the launch of a groundbreaking new initiative that will apply analytics on the data set created from MHA’s extensive mental health screenings, plus publicly available data sets, to find mental health hotspots and address the rapidly escalating mental health impacts emerging from the COVID-19…
Read MoreMentoring in the Age of Covid-19
Mickey Mandelbaum, Partner, Prosek Partners Of all the havoc the pandemic has brought to the workplace, the one that worries me the most are the lessons and knowledge our younger colleagues are missing in the current work-from-home environment. To be clear, I’m not talking about formal teach-ins or other company-wide meetings that can no longer…
Read MoreThe Consequences of Misinformation: Trump Largest Disseminator of False COVID-19 Information
Helio Fred Garcia Last week Cornell University’s Alliance for Science published the first comprehensive study of Coronavirus misinformation in the media, and concluded that President Trump is likely the largest driver of the such misinformation. Lost in the News Cycle In any other administration this would have led the news for at least a week.…
Read MoreQR Codes get a New Life as COVID-19 Recovery Spurs Contactless Payments
Justin Osborne COVID-19 increased the need of many businesses and people to have alternative payment methods. The rise in technological discoveries has paved the way for this to be possible. Many businesses are now tapping on to the use of QR code technology as a mechanism of surviving the slowdown in the global market. This is because…
Read MoreThe Underutilized Power of ‘Externalities’ – An Economist’s Take on Persuasive COVID-19 Communication
Sandra J. Peart, Dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond Economists often talk about externalities, the side effects associated with producing or consuming a product. The classic example is cigarette smoke: when you smoke near someone else, they inhale chemicals and increase their risk of lung cancer. Your decision…
Read More3 Tips to Retool Your Influencer Marketing During COVID-19
Adam Rossow, Co-Founder, Group RFZ With lockdowns driving up social media engagement, and influencers still creating content from home, influencer marketing remains a resilient strategy. However, it’s not business as usual. These tips can guide you through the reformulated world of influencer marketing during the pandemic. Social media use among U.S. adults has risen significantly…
Read MoreHow COVID-19 Has Changed Consumer Behavior
Ronn Torossian, CEO, 5WPR As our country is still grappling with COVID-19, many marketers are in a quandary as to how to strategize to consumers, many of whom have yet to return to work. Add to that the fact that many employers are still allowing employees to work remotely. A recent McKinsey study discovered other…
Read MoreSouth Korea’s Jeju Island Selects ICONLOOP Blockchain Technology for Private, Secure COVID-19 Contact Tracing
CommPRO Editorial Staff ICONLOOP (www.iconloop.com), South Korea’s leading blockchain technology company, today announced that Jeju Island, the country’s most popular domestic tourist destination, will use its Decentralized Identity (‘DID’) blockchain technology to provide private, secure COVID-19 contact tracing to the island’s 15 million annual visitors. ICONLOOP and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province have signed a…
Read MoreBlack Communications Professionals Disparately Impacted Due to COVID-19, New Survey Finds
CommPRO Editorial Staff COVID-19 is uniquely impacting Blacks in communications due to organizational shifts brought on by the virus combined with the heightened social justice climate. Recently, Media Frenzy Global, in partnership with the National Black Public Relations Society (NBPRS), released its 2020 survey, COVID-19’s Impact on Black Communications Professionals, highlighting challenges faced by Black professionals during COVID-19. The survey…
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 MoreLooking For Somewhere Safe From COVID-19 to Work? Can We Resuscitate Those Places of Yore Called Offices?
Thomas J. Madden, Chairman and CEO, Transmedia Group Hopefully, this prolonged pandemic I call a damndemic, won’t have lasting effects as I don’t think social distancing, wearing masks and staying home is making us any healthier or friendlier. So, how many masks, hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes will it take to return to those workplaces of yore…
Read MoreThe Importance of Putting People First During COVID-19
Tina McCorkindale, Ph.D., APR, President and CEO, Institute for Public Relations Steve Cody, Founder and CEO, Peppercomm, IPR Chair Recently, the Institute for Public Relations (IPR) and Peppercomm released a new e-book featuring 30 senior communication executives discussing how they are handling COVID-19 and looking ahead to the future. Of the 30 executives, one common…
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