Would You Pay To Read This Blog?

By on April 4th, 2011 In Writing

The era of free is over. It was a good run and I hope everyone learned a ton, but the idea that information/entertainment is sustainable solely through advertising is dead. In most cases, that is, unless you have hundreds of thousands of readers, the page views most sites attract won’t produce the click throughs and [...]

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Weird PR writing rituals

By on August 9th, 2010 In Writing

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 [...]

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Are you published yet?

By on May 28th, 2010 In People, Writing

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 [...]

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Is anonymity one big excuse?

By on September 21st, 2009 In Media, Writing

‘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 [...]

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Did Bobby Jindal need a speechwriter?

By on February 26th, 2009 In Best Practices, Writing

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 [...]

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So much for being a ‘blogmonkey’

By on January 1st, 2009 In Writing

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 [...]

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