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Cheat Sheet: Podcasts for CMOs

January 30, 2023 2:11 pm

This cheat sheet is a revamp from our May 2022 research. We found nine additional CMO-related podcasts since then, and none that had lapsed. How unusual. Let us know if we have missed your favorite.

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Cheat Sheet: HR and Hiring Verticals

January 23, 2023 2:46 pm

If you’ve ever tried it, you probably know that the HR segment is frustrating to research. Many of the titles hail from overseas. Contact names are hard to obtain (though we did). Paid and earned are blended and barely distinguished.

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Cheat Sheet: Construction Targets

January 2, 2023 5:48 am

Marketwatch’s Jonathan Swartz has predicted that 2023 will be the year of construction. In case Jon is right, here’s a list of 14 targets known to cover the construction industry. There’s a couple of VC contacts in there, too.

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Cheat Sheet: Who Still Runs Infographics?

December 23, 2022 11:18 am

Miraculously, we came up with 14 publications that ran infographics in recent months. In rare cases, the listed publication wrote a piece about an infographic — and linked to it — but did not actually publish it. The vast majority of the links below reveal the infog directly.

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Cheat Sheet: Intellectual Property Targets

December 9, 2022 12:06 pm

Here’s a list of 11 targets who have covered intellectual property topics. It’s fairly diverse — some big titles, many obscure. A lot of IP coverage comes in context with content types — music, images… and yes, some patent law in there, too.

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Cheat Sheet: Smart Lighting

November 22, 2022 8:36 am

Here’s a cheat sheet on a niche within a niche — smart lighting. (Be sure to check out our updated smart home cheat sheet as well.) We came up with 15 names, mostly trades.

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SWMS Predictions for 2025

December 10, 2024

No “predictions” post will appear on this site. That said, quite a number of subscribers have asked for a Zoom/MS Teams presentation on what 2025 will bring. A conversation is precisely the right tool for the job. After the election — and with AI transforming publishing and life — “2025” is best discussed among peers, not predicted. So if you’d like to have a confidential group exchange on what stands to unfold, and why, and how comms pros can come out on top in spite of it all, drop a line and we shall schedule something.

Talk About Confidentiality…

December 10, 2024

According to Adweek, Omnicom CEO John Wren and IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky were in merger talks for eleven and a half months before the transaction was announced this week. Amazing that it didn’t leak.

Introducing ‘SWMS Sound Thinking’

November 22, 2024

Should PR pros stop visiting X, with all its lies and hate? It’s only going to get worse. Or are tidbits from targets too important to walk away from? Click here to watch tech edit vet David Strom and I disagree (at high speed) about this, as one compelling visual after another pops up on your screen. In 2025, SWMS will officially launch “SWMS Sound Thinking,” designed to be “argumentative insight in six minutes or less.” Each segment will explore a timely and controversial topic of interest to tech comms pros. This prototype runs 5:25. Hope you enjoy it — feedback vital and welcome! –Sam

The ‘AI Fantasy Draft’ From Eric Newcomer

November 13, 2024

At this time last year, Eric Newcomer and his two podcast co-hosts — Max Child and James Wilsterman — each formed an “AI startup fantasy team” and picked five AI startups to seed their rosters. We’re now in year 2 and it’s time to draft again. The podcasters wonder… which startups do they dump? Which do they add? The player whose startups accumulate the most total value by Nov. 1, 2028 is the winner, so there’s plenty of time to make adjustments. Here’s a link to the AI fantasy team podcast — you may need a password. Not sure.

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