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What Has AI Done For You Lately?
Right now a lot of communications professionals are more focused on what AI can't do than what it can. In this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich is talking about why you should be getting a handle on AI's capabilities and making sure your own stay relevant.
9 min
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Conducting a Symphony of Robots
Chris Penn once told Gini Dietrich that as AI tools develop, the role of communicators will be one of conducting a symphony of robots, designing and coordinating work from different sources for specific outcomes. That day is near, if it isn't here already and that's what we're talking about today on the Spin Sucks Podcast.
15 min
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The PESO Model: Where To Start?
The most common question Gini Dietrich is asked about the PESO model is how to start implementing it. This week on the Spin Sucks Podcast she is talking about starting with the most important element of the model, Owned, and building a campaign around it.
10 min
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Big Changes in Generative Search - What It Mean...
Generative search is going to be affecting SEO sooner rather than later - but the foundations don't change - using your content to share your Experience, Expertise, Authority and Trust is still going to be the best thing you can do to make sure your content gets found. Gini Dietrich is talking abut the changes you do and don't need to make on this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast.
11 min
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The PESO Model© for Higher Ed, Comms Pros, and ...
Gini Dietrich has a vision about making the field of marketing and communications a better, more effective place with a shared understanding of how ROI is created and measured - and she's got a plan for how to make it happen. She's talking about it this week on the Spin Sucks Podcast.
9 min
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How TikTok, Twitch, and YouTube Are Changing Ea...
The role of communicators is always changing - not least because there are always new platforms and changes to existing ones to integrate into our plans. What stays the same is balancing the demands of speed, accuracy, engagement and integrity - and today on the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich is talking about how.
15 min
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No, We Don't All Lie For A Living.
This week on the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini is talking about how most people are using their PR powers for good.
8 min
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Your Questions Answered: The PESO Model© Certif...
If you want your clients to be confident that your communications work is ethical, responsible, and measurable, becoming a PESO Model Certified Guide© is the best way to get there. Gini Dietrich answers your questions about the new program on this week's episode of the Spin Sucks podcast.
9 min
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Combating Weaponized Information
Gini discusses the infiltration of weaponized information and what communicators can do about it.
15 min
35
The Changing Landscape of Media Relations
10 min
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How Communications Affects SEO
12 min
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How to Make Your Metrics Tell Stories
Data interpretation and communication is critical to help translate your efforts to outcomes. This week on the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich is talking about Coverage Impact, a powerful tool that can help you interpret, visualize and share your data and correlate them to organizational goals.
9 min
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Measuring PR Results in the 21st Century
Gini talks about the challenges and solutions for measuring PR efforts.
10 min
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The Newly Refreshed PESO Model™ Graphic and Pro...
Gini Dietrich is talking us through the changes to the model and graphic, and what it means for communicators around the world.
16 min
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The Transformative Effectiveness of the PESO Mo...
On this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich reviews the PESO Model© for any of you listening who aren't familiar with it yet, and provides some extra tips and insights for those who are.
15 min
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One of the Most Powerful Tools in the Communica...
On this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich is explaining why you should be considering contributed content, what editors are looking for, how to create it and how to measure it.
10 min
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Enough With the Double Standards!
As far as we've come, there is a long way to go when it comes to being a woman in the workplace... and the world. Professionally, women can be sidelined, diminished, talked over and infantilized by even the best-intentioned of men. And sometimes women help them do it.
14 min
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What Makes a Thought Leader?
Being a thought leader means having and sharing original thoughts that demonstrate your expertise. Doing this can take a lot of time or a lot of money or both, and that can sometimes be a challenge.
11 min
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Why Owned Media is Always Worth the Time
Owned Media is the most important element of a PESO Model plan - it has the most potential for long term benefit, and can perform the heaviest lift in terms of driving your marketing forward. Of course, it also takes the longest to pay off.
8 min
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Rise of the TikTok News Anchor
The PESO model is evolving like everything else we do in business, and that means you need to review your strategy, evaluate it's results and make changes as the environment you're working in does. On this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich is talking about some of the changes you might want to make in your application of the model in 2024.
15 min
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Communicating Bad News in the Age of TikTok
It's never easy to lay someone off, deny them leave, reduce benefits or share any other kind of bad news... but there are definitely ways to make it much worse - especially when your actions might end up on TikTok or another social media platform.
10 min
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Winning Business without Proposals
Requests for Proposals are the bane of many agency's existence, and although they're popular, they're rarely the best way to stary a new professional relationship.
8 min
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From Service Focused to Solutions Focused
To stay competitive in the new world of AI, you need to figure out how to use it, and any other new technologies that come along, to differentiate yourself and the solutions you provide. Gini Dietrich is talking about how on this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast.
8 min
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AI is Changing Everything, and That's Okay.
AI is changing everything yet again and on this week's Spin Sucks Podcast Episode, Gini Dietrich is talking abut how AI is changing the industry, and what it means for you.
12 min
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Surviving the End of the Internet
If you've noticed that you are enjoying your time on the internet, and more specifically social, a lot less? Gini Dietrich has too and that's what she's talking about this week on the Spin Sucks Podcast.
10 min