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The shortlist for the CIPR north west Pride awards was announced today.

Manchester-based Bazen PR has been shortlisted in 12 categories, including Outstanding Public Relations Agency, a prize it won last year.

It will be battling it out with IPB Communications, IAS B2B Marketing, Tangerine PR, Staniforth, Peppermint PR and Roland Dransfield for this top prize.

In-house teams from Stockport Council and Manchester Airport also featured heavily in this year’s listings with six nominations each.

Organised by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), the awards will see a total of 32 communications agencies and 17 in-house teams vying for a gong across 24 categories.

Erin Portsmouth, chair of the CIPR north west group, said: “Being shortlisted is a tremendous achievement.

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Good Samaritan Hospital / Special to The Courier & Press The Health Pavilion at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind. was the costliest expansion in recent years at $24 million in 1995. Now the hospital is planning a new 120-bed, five-story inpatient tower.

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Greg Dannis is a lawyer whos spent a career working with school districts in California. Hes a founding partner at Dannis, Wolver & Kelly, in San Francisco. I just finished reading his article Labors Lessons in the California Public Employees Relations Journal.

Greg writes about labor contracts in schools, specifically; hes been involved in that area for decades. But it occurred to me that what he says about that applies just as well to business negotiations Ive been in.

For example, how time in negotiations is different from time everywhere else:

I always believed in the immutability of time — until I experienced negotiations. B

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So, how is your marketing plan? Does it need some tweaking? As your business grows and your market changes, it almost certainly will. Sit back and enjoy as we share some tips that may help.

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Deciding on Google Plus? Sure you might be more use to Facebook, today’s predominant social media network. But where is the future of your business, and more importantly, where is the future destination for your customers. This video looks at your options.

Where your customers are going? The best social network to use still a major issue? What if there were a place so popular that 20 million people visited in just three weeks? Are some of them your customers? <

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In what may come as interesting technology news for entrepreneurs, a new survey from HP of more than 500 small business IT managers shows that 93 percent of companies have placed cost concerns over concerns about new technology. The managers said this lead to 89 percent of these companies experiencing IT-related problems.

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Tags: Small Business, Technology