I’m preparing for a podcast appearance next week where I’ll be talking about thought leadership. It’s a term we use all the time in PR but it’s a phrase a lot of people find hard to define. I remember first hearing the term as a 22 year old from my then PR account director Harriet Rich and being a bit baffled by it. I sort of knew it meant ‘intelligent business people having brilliant thoughts’ but I wasn’t sure how that manifested as a PR tactic. These days it means quite a few things… -LinkedIn ‘chat’ as well as posts of all kind, including newsletters -Social media content in general, written by business leaders -Earned media, eg opinion pieces and commentary in the press -Paid for media, eg Forbes Council Thought leadership needs to connect with a reader, make them feel something and have a lasting impact for it to be defined as thought leadership. 💭🤔 In the time of ChatGPT it’s quite easy to try to fake being a thought leader. But for it to connect with a reader and have an impact it has to come from a place of emotion, for example that might be frustration at the state of an industry. And it has to be truly original thought. Food for thought for the weekend. #Thoughtleadership #PR #media
🤩👏🏻 You will be awesome on that podcast Julie Thompson Dredge!
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7moI very much look forward to listening to this podcast Julie Thompson Dredge