The PR Counselor Is In - The future of the public relations agency

The big debate in public relations circles these days has nothing to do with the outrageous efforts to sully the reputation of  Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange and its implications for the profession and journalism in general, BP’s ham handed response to the biggest manmade environmental disaster in U.S. history or even whether PR staffers caught [...]

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I spent this afternoon learning about the concept of hyper targeting and getting acquainted with Facebook advertising. It is something I’ve been intending to experiment with for some time after hearing client Ed Schipul describe how it gives the user the ability to drill down into highly specific profiles. For instance, the Facebook advertising tool tells you [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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