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Presidential spokespeople: is there a handbook?
No wonder reporters don’t like spokespeople! Evasion, redirection, and just plain sucking up to reporters, straight from the playbook of how to be a lousy spokesperson (the good stuff starts at about 3:50 in on the clip). The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Obama: Day 15 Daily Show Full EpisodesFunny […]
Blagojevich: you just can’t look away
photo credit Andrew Rubio Being a liar is probably the worst sin from a public relations perspective. But right next to lying is hubris, the notion that the rules don’t apply to you, that your $#*t don’t stink, that you can get away with something wrong through the sheer force of confidence. Hubris is alive […]
Review: devices for streaming movies to your television
Today’s Dealnews has a helpful review of the Roku Netflix box, Apple TV, and the Vudu box.
Reputation management tools, free and paid
There’s only one Internet, and that makes it easier to effectively track your brand’s reputation than ever before. Dan Schwabel takes a look at free tools for online reputation management in this article; this may be all the information you need. But if you’re seeking enterprise-level support, here’s Dan’s rundown on paid tools, too. Alternately, […]
Social media predictions: 2009
Social Media 2009 Publish at Scribd or explore others: Management Business social media 2009 Being Peter Kim has assembled an excellent compendium of predictions for 2009. Also worth a look, the Junta 42 bloggers have made a list.
Annual top 10 PR Blunders
Courtesy of Bulldog Reporter’s Daily Dog, here’s some familiar material. Let’s do better in 2009, please!
A Charlie Brown ad agency Christmas
Protect your company from online identity theft
photo courtesy of Giant Ginkgo Last week was pretty good for Illuminati Karate, a web developer in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company snapped up an expired web domain for $10 and resold it for a profit of $34,990. The domain? GeorgeWBushLibrary.com. The library’s online vendor, Yuma Solutions, carelessly let the domain expire. And Yuma should have […]
To my graduating students
Congratulations! You’re almost out of here. Don’t forget a few tasks before you’re gone for good: Thank mom, dad and all the adults who have cheered for you, paid for your car insurance, hired you, and took the time to get to know you as an adult. You can never have enough good people in […]