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Lara Vu of Mila's Keeper - 5 Ways That Businesses Can Help Promote #EmployeeWellness
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Proud of Lara Vu and her interview with Medium's Authority Magazine https://link.medium.com/q87HJDfotxb [...] read more
Boston University article
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Do you grimace when you see an article on yourself? I still do. While clients do want attention, I prefer managing stories behind the scenes. I came across this article about me by a Boston University student. Best to own it. The link to the story appears below. [...] read more
PR Myths and You Don't Know Everything
Monday, January 10, 2022
Some thoughts on my mind with a bit of humor. 1. I love my clients and am proud of MKPR's longterm relationships. Trust is not a myth. 2. Truthfully, if you want someone to agree with all of your ideas then I am not your public relations professional. Samantha I am not. I wish I attended glamourous parties. Okay may be before COVID for product launches. Public relations is not media relations and press releases. It's not crisis communications, creating credibility, measurement, event planning, social media, analyst relations, community planning, [...] read more
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My Pet Peeve is Spelling Errors
Thursday, September 20, 2018
My pet peeve is spelling errors. Granted, I've had my share of them and kicked myself. They occur when I am in a rush or if I don’t have a second eye review my work. It affects my brand quality, something that I take a lot of pride in. They look unprofessional and limit client referrals. I don’t want to hear, “Don’t work with her because she makes errors.” Now imagine when it is a larger brand. What does it say? Recently, I was in Williams-Sonoma where it was doing [...] read more
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Why Do You Want Public Relations? Questions to Answer Prior to Finding a PR Team
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Lets talk about you. Why do you want PR support? Are you ready? Are you prepared to work in a partnership? At MKPR, we work with emerging and long-established small to mid-size companies. We purposely choose to only collaborate with a few clients a year so we can work side-by-side, provide the very best in services and build up your sales. We want you to succeed and have the relationships and experience. Here are some questions to ask yourself and your team. This will help Maryanne have a more frank discussion with you. [...] read more
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Bite of the Best Restaurant Blog Reviews
Sunday, October 29, 2017
For a time, I contributed to Bite of the Best , a NYC-centric food blog providing reviews for Boston-area restaurants. I very much enjoyed the writing. With limited time, I had to wrap this up. One has to be fair to all! Boston Public Market Yvonne's The Brotherhood of Thieves Babbo Pizzeria e Enoteca Sam's at Louis Boston [...] read more
Understanding the Intricacies of Flood Protection
Monday, February 6, 2017
(Article written for an insurance publication.) Storm season is here, marking the entry of severe winter weather that rolls across the Plain states or enters from the Atlantic Ocean often wreaking havoc on homes. In fact hurricanes and snowmelt are the most overlooked causes of floods. Mitigating disaster is a way of life for homeowners that live in low-lying areas and witness rising sea levels. Just a few inches of water from a high tide can flood basements and destroy lawns. In the past five years, all 50 states have experience flooding of some kind. More and [...] read more
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Slow Down. No One is Sitting Around Waiting for You to Tweet
Friday, August 14, 2015
On November 4, 2014 the Publicity Club of New England and PRSA Boston co-sponsored “Social Media Gone Rogue” at Boston University. Social media has become a mainstay of corporate communications programs with recommended outputs and turnkey responses. Despite trying to regulate this new and evolving form of communication with dedicated social media managers, content planning programs, listening dashboards, and airtight policies, “rogue” social media still happens. The answer to managing unauthorized Twitter accounts, employees going off-message and corporate account blunders, may surprise you. It starts simply with slowing [...] read more
Future Cast: Will Robots Replace Journalists like Toll Collectors?
Friday, August 14, 2015
By Maryanne Keeney, Principal of MKPR, LLC , ( www.mkpr.com , @Mayne) and Loring Barnes, APR, Founder of Clarity Group ( www.claritygroup.com , @loringbarnes). No robots were involved in creating this content . Will robots be the future of journalism? Before you discount that proposition consider this: the LA Times and AP have already incorporated robots into their news reporting operations. Just last August, NBC News included journalism among a list of nine professions to [...] read more
A Long Road to Reputation Recovery for General Motors
Friday, August 14, 2015
My family recently purchased a new car. The car needed to fit a toddler, several surfboards and a lot of gear. We passed on minivans and SUVs. We dismissed Toyota vehicles after learning of its 1.3 million car recall (sudden acceleration issues) and we did not look at General Motors . The automaker cut costs that led to many accidents and fatalities. As a result, it was recently fined $35M and has a growing recall of 2.6 million vehicles. We bought a Ford and to our surprise, [...] read more
Foundation to a Winning PR Award Submission
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
I had the opportunity to serve as a PR judge for a non-profit organization outside of New England that covered multiple states. I've been a long-time judge for the Publicity Club of New England, so I was excited to see new submissions and styles of public relations execution elsewhere. From experience, I know that it takes a long time to formulate a submission, recall a campaign and the steps, why you planned one way over another and then gathering the data. Sometimes I think it's harder to be a judge because you have to read several submissions and try [...] read more