Weird PR writing rituals
I thought I had strange rituals I went through when I sit down to write, but I guess it’s not so unusual. A post earlier this year started a whole string of comments on www.myragan.com. At least I write with my shoes on.
Here are my professional office (as in you’re employed at someone else’s headquarters) [...]
Are you published yet?
PR Consultant Brian Solis blogged last month that “businesses must become media in order to earn greater relevance and ultimately thought leadership within their respective markets.” I would argue that individuals, particularly PR professionals, should also consider becoming their own media publishing center. (Here is his full post on the topic).
As a public relations professional, [...]
Is anonymity one big excuse?
‘UnclePat’ got it right. He was responding to a question E.J. Montini raised in his blog recently.
Explain to me some of the reasons you believe that is is necessary for those who post responses to blogs or add their opinion to comment threads should to be anonymous. Or, rather, why you choose to do so, [...]
Did Bobby Jindal need a speechwriter?
I thought I was being a bit harsh when watching the Republican rebuttal the other day. I thought his speech was a badly packaged naive response. My main point was (you could see the full post here) from the basic: teleprompter training, to choice of anecdote, to simply weak speech.
I now see that others [...]
So much for being a ‘blogmonkey’
Lake Superior State University (that grand bastion of higher learning) has come out with its 34th annual “List of Words to be Banished From the Queen’s English for Misuse, Over-use and General Uselessness.” There are some funny ones that I too hope we never see again — most especially “first dude” as used to describe [...]
Waste Management Woman
I was going through my Facebook friends and saw that a local writer, Christia Gibbons has a new blog!
I fear that while the Internet has opened up the world, the massive amount of unscrutinized information in poorly written form is dumbing us down. I’m a lifelong journalist from reporter to city editor, from freelancer [...]
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