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Barbara Segal - PR
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🌟 Communications + Business Strategist
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✨ 14+ years of turning visions into headlines!
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How the best marketing campaigns of 2025 navigated uncertain times.
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How the best marketing campaigns of 2025 navigated uncertain times
The savviest marketers cut through chaos with strategies and tactics that portend where advertising could head next year.
www.marketingdive.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Looking to reminisce about the year that was, and get a better understanding of what captured people’s interest in 2025?
- Google Highlights Key Search Trends of 2025.
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Google Highlights Key Search Trends of 2025
The annual Year in Search overview has arrived with a rundown of 2025's top trending searches.
www.socialmediatoday.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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How communicators can translate leadership updates into bite-sized employee messages.
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How communicators can translate leadership updates into bite-sized employee messages - Ragan Communications
Keep the heart of the message from getting lost in translation.
www.ragan.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Honoring Frank Gehry, a visionary who reshaped architecture and inspired generations. His bold imagination changed skylines worldwide. May he rest in peace.
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Frank O. Gehry, the architect who changed the civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, has died
Frank Gehry, known for ebullient cultural buildings like Disney Hall who helped invigorate the field of architecture at a moribund time, has died at 96.
www.latimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Elon Musk’s X hit with €120 million fine for breaching EU’s social media laws

The social media platform was cited for selling misleading blue checkmarks, obscuring ad data, and restricting researcher access.

X has 90 days to submit a compliance plan, or appeal the fine.

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EU hits Elon Musk's X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc's social media law
European Union regulators have fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros for failing to comply with digital regulations.
apnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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LinkedIn Provides Pointers for SMB Brand Building.
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LinkedIn Provides Pointers for SMB Brand Building
LinkedIn analyzed 18 million SMB profiles to get a sense of what's working.
www.socialmediatoday.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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TikTok’s Viral ‘Bird Test’ for Relationships Works at the Office Too The science behind the viral ‘bird test’ applies just as much to professional relationships as romantic ones.
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TikTok’s Viral ‘Bird Test’ for Relationships Works at the Office Too
The science behind the viral ‘bird test’ applies just as much to professional relationships as romantic ones.
www.inc.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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TikTok to add an option to limit the amount of AI-generated content that appears in your feed, with the platform rolling out a new slider in its “Manage Topics” tool that will enable users to indicate that they want less AI slop in stream.
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TikTok Adds Option To Limit AI Content in Feed
TikTok becomes the latest platform to add an option to limit AI content.
www.socialmediatoday.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Thank you for calling it out, Terry Moran! Strong, clear, and honest.
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Americans are a decent people, by and large. The president is not.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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3 Reasons Your Executive Isn’t Breaking Through on LinkedIn—and What to Do About It.
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3 Reasons Your Executive Isn’t Breaking Through on LinkedIn—and What to Do About It
LinkedIn is a great place to break business news. But the facts are only half the story. If your executives are sounding more like a press release than like the unique human they are, it’s time for a ...
www.prnewsonline.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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LinkedIn Adds AI-Powered Conversational.
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LinkedIn Adds AI-Powered Conversational Search
Now you can find people, pages and posts by asking more specific questions.
www.socialmediatoday.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Gemini AI Can Read Your Gmail Now. Here’s Why That’s A Good Thing.
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Gemini AI Can Read Your Gmail Now. Here’s Why That’s A Good Thing
Google has confirmed that Gemini AI can now read your Gmail, Docs, Drive And Chat. Here’s what you need to know and why you shouldn’t panic.
www.forbes.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Brands and influencers are not including intellectual property clauses addressing AI in their deals.
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Brands and influencers are not including intellectual property clauses addressing AI in their deals
AI is transforming industries just as influencer deals reshape the creator economy. Yet IP and copyright law remain stuck in the past.
digiday.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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When people stand up, speak out, and get involved - we move our country forward.
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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California Democrats’ proposal to redraw congressional districts to stymie President Trump’s agenda was approved by voters.

Read more at the link in bio where you can find our live coverage of the election ➡ www.latimes.com/california/l...
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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How Americans’ trust in information from news organizations and social media sites has changed over time.
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How Americans’ trust in information from news organizations and social media sites has changed over time
Overall, 56% of U.S. adults now say they have a lot of or some trust in the information they get from national news organizations – down 11 percentage points since March 2025.
www.pewresearch.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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OpenAI Reorganizaes With $135 Billion Microsoft Stake. The OpenAI Foundation said on Tuesday that it will focus $25 billion across two main areas: health breakthroughs and cures for diseases, as well as technical solutions to AI resilience.
time.com/7329062/open...
OpenAI Completes Reorganization With $135B Microsoft Stake
The nonprofit arm, now called the OpenAI Foundation, will have a $130 billion stake in the for-profit enterprise.
time.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Pinterest Adds New AI Recommendation Tools.

Our observation: Pinterest deserves real creativity - not endless AI clones flooding every board.
www.socialmediatoday.com/news/pintere...
Pinterest Adds New AI Recommendation Tools
This could be an easier way to showcase relevant items to each user.
www.socialmediatoday.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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TikTok’s ‘Group 7’ Meme, Explained.
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TikTok’s ‘Group 7’ Meme, Explained
TikTokers have been posting videos and comments boasting about belonging to ‘Group 7’—but what does it all mean? Here’s the TikTok trend, explained.
www.forbes.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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The American Institute of Architects Condemns Demolition of the White House East Wing and Calls for Transparency in Public Architecture.
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AIA Condemns Demolition of the White House East Wing and Calls for Transparency in Public Architecture
The demolition of the East Wing without full public engagement or clarity undermines the very process that the design and preservation professions developed
www.aia.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about.

Would be a shame if it went viral.
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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A Eulogy For the White House’s East Wing.
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A Eulogy For the White House's East Wing
Where guests from around the world previously enjoyed state dinners now stands piles of debris.
time.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Leadership means stewardship — not destruction. Our public landmarks belong to the people, not to any one administration.
The White House East Wing is part of our national identity.
Transparency was promised. We got bulldozers instead.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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TikTok’s ongoing U.S. uncertainty has marketers rethinking next year’s budgets.
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TikTok's ongoing U.S. uncertainty has marketers rethinking next year's budgets
While marketers are happy to continue committing ad dollars for now, they are thinking twice about their 2026 budgets.
digiday.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Pinterest Adds Controls To Reduce AI Content in Feeds. Which has become overwhelming, and has negatively impacted their in-app experience.
www.socialmediatoday.com/news/pintere...
Pinterest Adds Controls To Reduce AI Content in Feeds
Pinterest users say the volume of AI-generated Pins has become overwhelming in some categories.
www.socialmediatoday.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM