September 14, 2009 – 6:16 am
Guest post by Lee Odden: Follow him on Twitter | Read his blog6 Questions to Assess Your PR Vendor’s SEO/Social Media Readiness
Recently Jason Falls made an insightful comment on his blog about PR professionals being “social media ready”. In that post, he cited the need for specific social media marketing skills to be assessed [...]
August 29, 2009 – 8:27 am
Deirdre Breakenridge and I are both proud and humbled by two recent landmarks for our book, “Putting the Public Back in Public Relations” and we owe the thanks to you.
1. The rights to translate and publish the book in Japan were solidified last week.
2. The book is currently in its second printing.
We’re looking forward to [...]
August 24, 2009 – 7:44 am
Guest post by Jeremy Toeman: Follow him on Twitter | Read his blog
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There’s a blog post on MobileCrunch regarding a PR firm having their employees/interns put up fake product reviews on behalf of their clients. For the younger folk in the industry, let me make sure it’s clear that these techniques are nothing new. [...]
August 16, 2009 – 9:02 am
This week, I was invited to speak at the Girls in Tech event in San Francisco as part of its evening discussing and exploring the nuances and opportunities defining and fueling Journalism 2.0. I’ve supported GIT founder Adriana Gascoigne since the beginning and will always help the chapters that now exist around the world. It’s [...]
Credit: Nick Brandt, Available for sale here
According to Rafat Ali, The Wall Street Journal today amended its editorial policy to no longer participate in embargoed news herds and will only consider exclusives from this point on. In March, The WSJ introduced a new plan to grade journalists based on the stories they break for the [...]
I’ve been spending a fair amount of time touring the world in support of my ideas and thoughts on the direction of new PR, branding, service, and marketing communications. My reward and inspiration to continue is sourced from each person I meet and the experiences and challenges they share. I’ve learned that our greatest hindrance [...]
August 2, 2009 – 12:15 pm
PRWeek published two articles this week that I wanted to share with you…
First, I am proud and humbled to have been named among 39 other incredible PR and communications thought leaders and practitioners in the 2009 PRWeek edition of the annual 40 Under 40 list. For the record thought, they added another year to my [...]
Expert Series: Louis GraySourceSuccessful businesses are always making choices and sacrifices, strategically looking as to how they are going to prioritize their resources, including human capital, budgets, and, of course, time. As the world around them adapts, so too do they need to make changes internally to respond, or to predict where trends are going [...]
I would like to take this moment to make an ambiguous announcement of sorts.
While I’m currently in the throes of spreading the word about my new book with Deirdre Breakenridge, “Putting the Public Back in Public Relations,” I’ve also launched into the development of my next book. I’ll let you know more very soon…
In order [...]
