Last blog post for me – welcome, 1984
It’s time for me to exit Valley PR Blog officially. I hadn’t planned on this when I first started blogging three years ago, but the un-squelchable series of pains and maladies that continue to afflict me can only be minimized if I finally face my reality, the new “normal.” Over the last decade, as I felt [...]
Readjusting to life in Phoenix
For every PR person leaving the Valley, there’s another one moving here for the first time, and yet another one returning here from overseas. I ran into Richard Burger at a Growth Nation conference, and he has recently moved back here after 8 years in Hong Kong and Beijing. What’s it like to be back [...]
AZ Entrepreneurship Conf to Feature Brian Solis
The AZ Entrepreneurship Conference this year includes PR thought leader Brian Solis as one of the featured speakers. Since he is rarely in Phoenix, mark your calendar for Wed., November 17th and be sure to attend this event. He’ll be talking about “Engagement as Customer Service,” based on the concepts laid out in his book, “Engage: [...]
CenPhoCamp Coming on Oct 9th
CenPhoCamp is back again as a free event to connect downtown Phoenix business owners with local experts to talk about how to succeed in this economy and build a solid community downtown. This will be the first time I’m attending, and what attracted me to it was the format – 12 35-minute sessions — and [...]
Book review: “Using LinkedIn”
Using LinkedIn by Patrice-Anne Rutledge delivers the basics of LinkedIn, and how to develop a strategy. It’s a good resource to give your clients if they are in the finance, legal, real estate or other comparatively more traditional markets than consumer and high-tech, and want to better understand how to use LinkedIn and get their [...]
Book review: Social Media Marketing
Maybe you’re sick to death of social media. Jackie Wright of Rainmaker Communications told me awhile back over coffee, “We get what it is – we just want to hear case studies now about how to apply it.” I’ve found there are 3 types of social media books – the high level, extremely theoretical (which [...]
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