Change the Story if Bad News Piles Up

Posted by Dan Keeney

This morning’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram included the story of a young special education teacher who died over the weekend when her car was struck by a train. I read the story and wished that she had been profiled in life because she had touched so many lives.
My wife read the story and the fact that popped [...]

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When does “plausible” equal “likely”?

Posted by Dan Keeney

Reading the Fort Worth Star-Telegram this morning, I saw the story, “Injection well called ‘plausible’ culprit.” It reported on the conclusions of a study by researchers at Southern Methodist University looking into whether recent seismic activity in the area could have been caused by natural gas drilling techniques. They determined it is “plausible.” But the [...]

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Small is the new big (that’s what he said)

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I have been doing some work pertaining to online video and came across some great information from ComScore that I wanted to pass along. Many times clients want to hit a home run with an online video. It is understandable. When we get them coverage on the television news, they know that tens of thousands of people will see [...]

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E-mail Anonymous: E-mail Junkie Rehab

Posted by Dan Keeney

Of all the sessions I attended at the 2009 PRSA International Conference in San Diego last week, the one that may end up having the most profound impact on the way I work was the final session. It had nothing to do with public relations or ethics or strategy. In fact, communications was characterized as [...]

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How to build a beloved craft beer brand

Posted by Dan Keeney

As I posted in a brief article on my company Web site last week, Online Video is a Powerful Brand Building Tool, I have been increasingly integrating video into my daily work on behalf of my public relations clients. A special labor of love over the past month has been the process of producing a [...]

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Great intro to Social Media Presentation

Posted by Dan Keeney

I thought this was a great easy-to-understand overview of the changes that are taking place in the media landscape, and the changes they necessitate in how organizations communicate with their audiences. Credit goes to Red Cube Marketing out of the U.K. for doing a great job. 
Social Media Breakfast Briefing at the DBA Nov 09
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20 Years Later, Echoes of Tiananmen Square are Heard in Tehran

Posted by Dan Keeney

 

 Images made available from Mir Hossein Mousavi’s election campaign media operation, Ghalam News, via AP. I have been sad today watching the events unfold in Tehran and other cities throughout Iran. I am not sad that these uprisings are happening. I am sad because I can imagine how it will end. Because those of us over [...]

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Are We Missing the Next Big Thing Because of Our Twitter Obsession?

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Enjoyed a giant lunch covering every conceivable food group with the Greater Fort Worth Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America today. The luncheon speaker was Beth Harte of Harte Marketing & Communications. She had presented a morning workshop along with Twitter freaks Richie Escovedo and Terry Morawski from Mansfield ISD on how public [...]

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