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The first and longest-running podcast for professional communicators.
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FIR #361: Is There a Seat at the Table in Corpo...
A new study from Edelman reveals how Fortune 500 CCOs spend their time -- and budgets
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FIR #360: Your AI Chatbot Confidant
If a school headmaster can do it, why not a CEO?
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FIR #359: Your New AI BFF
Here come synthetic social networks
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FIR #358: EY Goes AI
The Big Four Accounting Firm Has Launched Internal and External AI Portals
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FIR #357: A Status Report on AI and PR
The PR Academy assesses the PR industry's early moves to add AGI to its resource mix
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FIR #356: The Long Arc of Network Disruption
When compared to print's lifespan, the internet is in its toddler phase
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FIR #353: Blogging in the AI Era
Blogs are as relevant as ever. AI can help. Or hurt. Or both.
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FIR #352: AI and Elections -- Should We Panic?
Disinformation will be AI's primary election output but there's already plenty of that
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FIR #351: No Such Thing as Peak Podcast
Are there too many books? Records?
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FIR #350: Success Breeds Imitation
A batch of toy-based movies is coming, thanks to Barbie
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FIR #349: Marketing's Pity Party
Journalism and Advertising are Taking Different Approaches to Artificial Intelligence, and More
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FIR #348: The Consequences of AI Panic
A useful website is gone thanks to unjustified panic among authors spooked by AI
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FIR #347: Digital Media, Star Power, and Wrexham
Two stars bought an obscure football club. Can just anyone emulate their success?
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FIR #346: The Daily Me, Video Version
A personalized 30-minute newscast sounds great, but it comes with consequences
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FIR #345: Sources of Information
In which your co-hosts share their routines for staying current with tech and comms news
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FIR #344: Sloganeering with AI
What if AI could improve on the world's best-known slogans?
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FIR #342: Pulling at Threads' Seams
It's only two weeks old and people are already passing judgment.
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FIR #341: Influencers Amuck
Influencers are being paid to spread disinformation across social networks
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FIR #340: Will AI Destroy the Web?
All the signs are there. Is there time to avoid the worst-case scenario?
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FIR #339: Still Virtual After All These Years
Second Life is 20 years old and continues to draw users and make money
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FIR #338: Adding Activism to PR
A new study suggests PR can learn a lot from community activists
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FIR #337: Is It All Over for Influencers?
Trust in influencer content has plummeted
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FIR #336: Trust, Likability, and Confirmation Bias
"Public individuals" have replaced mainstream media as a source of news and information for many Americans
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FIR #335: BBC Fires a Shot in the Disinformatio...
BBC Verify is a New Unit That Debunks Misinformation While Sharing Details of Its Own Reporting
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FIR #334: Employees Really Do Hate Change
The number of corporate change initiatives has exploded in the last seven years. Employees are exhausted.
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