PR Pros help connect jobs, employers
Has anyone been noticed HAPPO? Stands for Help a PR Pro Out.
It’s a great idea –albeit an homage to HARO — attempting to connect the PR community with employers. The folks behind it have planned a one-day event coming up on Feb 19. Details here.
Maybe someone from Phoenix should get in touch with them, since [...]
Plenty of “non-experts” – tons of social media expertise
A funny thing happened in the lobby of MADCAP Theater, Monday.
It had nothing to do with these two familiar faces. Most of the 400 + attendees at the Social Media for Business event –a..k.a SMAZ –about all things digital, indulged in one of the oldest communication tools, business cards.
I loved how, despite seeing a Twitter [...]
Bad magazine cover, no accident.
The buzz about the Sarah Palin photo on Newsweek’s cover is roiling people up. But while it is spilling into a sexist argument, I find it a useful example of how images are used in buzz creation.
Magazines know this so well, that people ought not be shocked at these choices. A photo by itself is [...]
Looking at PR and journalism from both sides
I came across this discussion of whether journalists need PR. Great points covered, even though we have discussed some of them here before.
Do journalists need PR – by Jeremy Porter
And to get the opposite pov, read What journalists should know about PR people – by Rohit Bahargava
To apologize, or to set record straight?
There are times when an apology is necessary, and there are times to respond to criticism. There is possibly another large gray area that involves shutting up, or not unleashing your spin machine when you clearly know you’ve screwed up.
So I thought these two examples were enlightening. One a government institution, and the other a [...]
Did you get $384 richer yesterday?
If you were on Twitter yesterday you probably received a ridiculous message from someone in your network that went “hey, I made $384 yesterday. this website showed me how” –followed by a suspicious looking shortened URL.
I received several of these, and promptly contacted the senders, certain that this was some robotic message. ($384 was enough of [...]
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