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AI, Creators, and Influencer Marketing for Brands and People
ByBarbara Rozgonyi June 10, 2026June 10, 2026
The future of marketing is being rewritten right now, and the conversation is electric. On June 9, AMA Charlotte hosted its premier marquee event, 704Forward, inside the unique, high-energy atmosphere of the Triple C Brewing Barrel Room. The night brought together some of the brightest minds in influencer marketing and artificial intelligence to tackle the…
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Be the Answer, Not a Footnote: How to Navigate the 2026 Generative Engine Disruption
ByBarbara Rozgonyi June 10, 2026June 10, 2026
The business model of the open web is fundamentally shifting. As artificial intelligence transforms how information is synthesized, search engines have evolved from mere gateways into final destinations. For public relations professionals, fractional CMOs, and enterprise leaders, the traditional playbook of optimizing solely for web traffic and link clicks is rapidly breaking. This recap of…
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AI | Digital PR | Leadership | Marketing | PR | Storytelling | Thought Leadership
What Is AI Reading Right Now? How AI Sees Your Story Online | PR, GEO, and AI Visibility
ByBarbara Rozgonyi May 29, 2026May 30, 2026
If you work in PR or marketing, your job is shaping stories every day. The latest “What Is AI Reading?” study from Muck Rack reveals something powerful: AI tools are now retelling your brand’s story to buyers, executives, journalists, and decision‑makers. The big question is this: when someone asks AI about your company or your…
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The 2026 LinkedIn Profile Checklist: How to Turn Your Profile Into an Authority Beacon
ByBarbara Rozgonyi May 28, 2026June 10, 2026
Original version appeared on WiredPRWorks on April 11, 2018 We might call this week a LinkedIn hat trick. After running a corporate branding training session and doing two media interviews, a realization set in: LinkedIn is not a resume anymore. It is your live, 24/7 personal broadcasting network. When the original version of this checklist…
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AI | Leadership | Public Relations
ThinkAI in Charlotte: What AI, Trust, and Visibility Mean for Leaders Right Now
ByBarbara Rozgonyi May 20, 2026May 20, 2026
How to Architect AI: What the ThinkAI Symposium Revealed About the Future of Work, Trust, and Visibility By Barbara Rozgonyi, keynote speaker, AI + PR visibility strategist, and founder of WiredPRWorks and Brighter Presence ThinkAI Research & Innovation Symposium | May 14, 2026 | The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center CityPresented by UNC Charlotte’s…
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Conferences | Events | Keynote Speaker | Leadership | Marketing | Meeting Planners | PR | Speaking | Thought Leadership | Travel
The Most Powerful Marketing Channel in 2026 Isn’t Digital — It’s This
ByBarbara Rozgonyi May 19, 2026May 19, 2026
The 2026 EIC Global Economic Significance of Business Events report just dropped and if you’re a meeting planner, speaker, event marketer, brand strategist, or thought leader, the numbers don’t just impress. They justify every dollar, every booking, and every keynote you’ve ever invested in. Produced by the Events Industry Council (EIC) in partnership with Oxford…
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AI in PR | journalism | Personal Branding | PR | Public Relations | Publicity | Thought Leadership
What 1,800+ Journalists Want PR Pros, Brands, and Thought Leaders to Know Right Now: 2026 State of the Media Report
ByBarbara Rozgonyi May 19, 2026May 19, 2026
If you’re a PR professional, brand communicator, or thought leader trying to earn media coverage in 2026, this report lands at exactly the right moment. Cision surveyed more than 1,800 journalists across 10+ global markets to produce the 2026 State of the Media Report and the insights are a direct playbook for anyone who wants…
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AI | Associations | Branding | Charlotte | Creativity | Customer Experience | Events | Keynote Speaker | Leadership | Meeting Planners
New Meetings and Events Insights: MPI Carolinas GMID 2026 Recap
ByBarbara Rozgonyi May 13, 2026May 13, 2026
If you work in the meetings and events industry, you know it’s a tight-knit club. We all speak the same language of room blocks, BEOs, and attendee engagement. And when you walk into a room full of people who just get it, there’s an energy that’s hard to explain to anyone on the outside. I’ve…
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Creativity | Entrepreneurship | Leadership | PR | Storytelling | visibility | Women in Business
Create Anyway: A Love Letter to Artists, PR, and Marketing at CreativeMornings Charlotte
ByBarbara Rozgonyi May 4, 2026May 4, 2026
The most powerful work you’ll ever create starts with a decision, not a budget. Create anyway. That’s the lesson that crossed the finish line at CreativeMornings Charlotte on May 1, 2026 at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, where Grammy-honored artist and nonprofit founder Dennis Reed Jr. delivered a keynote on May’s Creative Mornings global theme: Create. For PR…
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BrandSmart 2026: How to Market Better, not faster, in the Age of Acceleration
ByBarbara Rozgonyi April 29, 2026April 30, 2026
Last week, I attended AMA Chicago’s BrandSmart at City Hall in Chicago, and it delivered exactly what I hope a great marketing conference does: practical ideas, sharp thinking, and a clearer view of where our industry is headed. The event brought together marketers, communicators, and brand leaders to discuss one of the defining challenges of…
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Marketing | PR | Storytelling | Travel | Women in Business
What Chicago Taught Me About Slowing Down and Thinking More Strategically
ByBarbara Rozgonyi April 28, 2026April 28, 2026
It’s Travel Tuesday on wiredPRworks, and this story might sound familiar to anyone who navigates transportation routes, leadership paths, or marketing/PR/sales teams. As someone who knows my way around Chicago and the CTA, or so I thought, I had the perfect plan. My husband told me exactly which bus to take, the 66, from the…
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Community | Creativity | Photography | Storytelling | Travel | visibility
Why Showing Up In Person Is Still Your Most Powerful Visibility Strategy
ByBarbara Rozgonyi April 20, 2026April 29, 2026
By Barbara Rozgonyi | WiredPRWorks | April 2026 | Visibility · PR · Thought Leadership I drove 350 miles round‑trip for a photo walk. I know that sounds like a big effort, but as a visibility strategist who works with keynote speakers, executive coaches, and B2B thought leaders, I also know this: the moments that most grow your…
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Branding | PR | Public Relations | Speaking | Storytelling | Travel | visibility | Women in Business
Origin Storytelling and PR Insights from 600 Years Ago
ByBarbara Rozgonyi April 14, 2026April 14, 2026
Whether you are a keynote speaker, a CEO, or a founder, your “Origin Story” isn’t just a bio filler. It is a magnetic professional asset that builds E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trust) in a way no AI-generated content ever could. Travel Tuesday takes us back to my family’s roots in Hungary. Last week, Hungary…
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Charlotte | Community | Nonprofit | Podcasting | PR | Thought Leadership
Are you lonely? Your Community Is. Here’s What That Means.
ByBarbara Rozgonyi April 13, 2026April 13, 2026
By Barbara Rozgonyi | April 13, 2026 | Charlotte, NCNational Stress Awareness Month | Loneliness Epidemic | Community Building | Marketing Strategy | Thought Leadership April is National Stress Awareness Month. And this year, the most stressful thing I heard came not from a headline, but from a former U.S. Surgeon General sitting in a room…
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Branding | Creativity | Entrepreneurship | Events | Leadership | Travel
3 Powerful Ember Paths for Personal Branding: How To Ideas for Creatives and Thought Leaders via Charlotte
ByBarbara Rozgonyi April 7, 2026April 7, 2026
Welcome to a very special Travel Tuesday edition! On Friday, April 3, 2026, CreativeMornings Charlotte celebrated its 10th anniversary inside the Frozen set at ImaginOn Childen’s Theater of Charlotte stage, and the morning landed on the very first day of Charlotte SHOUT! The lessons? Profound. The cake? Incredible. The sponsor singalong? Gloriously unhinged, as usual. Since moving…
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Entrepreneurship | Leadership | Storytelling | Women in Business
Women’s History Month Legacy: The Untold Story of CoryWest Media
ByBarbara Rozgonyi March 30, 2026March 30, 2026
There’s an old clock on my desk. It doesn’t tell time anymore. Yet, it feels more timely than ever during Women’s History Month. This clock once sat under my grandmother’s bed for as long as anyone could remember. When she passed away, I was just three years old. I apparently searched for it at her…
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How London’s Totoro Production Reveals the Secrets of B2B Customer Experience Storytelling
ByBarbara Rozgonyi March 24, 2026March 24, 2026
Reading time: 6 minutes | Category: PR Strategy, Storytelling, Brand Experience, Travel AI Overview This article explores how the West End production of My Neighbor Totoro at London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre reveals a powerful 4-Act framework for designing emotionally resonant B2B customer experiences. PR strategist Barbara Rozgonyi maps theatrical storytelling onto brand touchpoints, showing marketers, communications professionals,…
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Blog Publicity | Blogging | Branding | Keynote Speaker | Leadership | Marketing | PR | Women in Business | Writing
What Are the Best PR Blogs to Follow in 2026? A PR Pro’s Complete Guide
ByBarbara Rozgonyi March 19, 2026March 19, 2026
By Barbara Rozgonyi | March 2026 | wiredPRworks.com | Serving Clients Nationwide and GloballyLast Updated: March 2026 For nearly two decades, wiredPRworks has been one of the most continuously published public relations and digital communications blogs in the US. This month, it ranked #32 in FeedSpot’s “100 Best Public Relations Blogs to Follow in 2026”…
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Branding | Conferences | Customer Experience | Events | Keynote Speaker | Leadership | Marketing | Meeting Planners | Personal Branding | PR | Public Relations | Storytelling | Travel
Rooted in Resilience: What the Philadelphia Flower Show Teaches Us About PR, Events, and Growth
ByBarbara Rozgonyi March 3, 2026March 3, 2026
I wasn’t even in Philadelphia for 24 hours. I flew in, walked into the Pennsylvania Convention Center early on a Saturday morning, and could smell the flowers before I saw a single bloom. It felt like walking into a living vision board for how I want events, brands, and stories to feel in 2026: rooted,…
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How to Book the Top 9 Keynote Speaking Topics for 2026: The Ultimate Planner’s Guide
ByBarbara Rozgonyi February 26, 2026February 26, 2026
If you’re an event planner, this post is your shortcut to the 9 most requested speaking topics for 2026 and how to translate them into session tracks that fill seats. If you’re a speaker, this is your framework for reframing your existing talks so planners and AI‑search tools can actually find you. Event planners are…
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Top 50 PR Sites for 2026: How to Master AI-Driven Influence and B2B PR
ByBarbara Rozgonyi February 23, 2026February 23, 2026
By Barbara Rozgonyi | wiredPRworks | Updated February 2026 AI Research Disclosure: This post was created using a combination of AI-assisted research tools (including Perplexity AI) and Barbara Rozgonyi’s 20+ years of expert judgment in PR, social media, and B2B influence strategy. All sites have been manually reviewed and verified as active and authoritative as…
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Keynote Speaker | Leadership | Marketing | PR | Social Media | Speaking
From Visible to Valuable: Why Speakers Need High-Resolution Strategy in the AI Era
ByBarbara Rozgonyi February 11, 2026February 11, 2026
The Visibility Paradox of 2026 We’re drowning in content, yet starving for connection. For speakers, this paradox creates a brutal reality: you can be everywhere and nowhere simultaneously. Your LinkedIn posts get likes, your website traffic looks healthy, your proposals go out on time—but the bookings? They’re not matching the effort. This isn’t about working…
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Branding | Creativity | Leadership | Speaking | Travel
How to Design Executive Presence With Character
ByBarbara Rozgonyi January 21, 2026January 21, 2026
What Superheroes, Costume Design, and Storytelling Reveal About Visibility and Leadership From Travel Tuesday to Leadership Insight Sometimes leadership lessons arrive in boardrooms.Sometimes they arrive on stages. And sometimes they arrive unexpectedly while walking through a museum on a cold January morning in Chicago. What began as a Travel Tuesday visit to the Kenneth C….
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AI | Associations | Keynote Speaker | PR
How Can Associations Grow Better and Faster with AI: A 2026 AI + PR Visibility Playbook by an AI Keynote Speaker for Smarter Association Marketing
ByBarbara Rozgonyi December 4, 2025December 4, 2025
What’s your association’s biggest visibility problem? It’s not your budget. It’s probably not your marketing, or your leadership.Your biggest challenge is keeping up with the ever-evolving rules in a 2026 game that’s moving at hyper speed. In this article, by Barbara Rozgonyi an AI Keynote Speaker for associations, you’ll get the 2026 playbook you need…
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Branding | Storytelling | Thought Leadership | Women in Business
What Oz, Tiffany, and Gilded Age Wizards Teach Leaders About Visibility, Legacy, Reinvention, and Magic that Lasts
ByBarbara Rozgonyi December 2, 2025
Why This Story Matters for Leaders and Creators Right Now In an era where AI curates experiences, search engines prioritize relevance, and audiences crave authenticity, the most influential brands and leaders aren’t just visible. They build worlds people want to inhabit. Chicago’s Driehaus Museum exemplifies this: a restored Gilded Age mansion housing exhibits on The…
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