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   Photo courtesy of Points By Drew Prewitthttp://pointsbypritt.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/the-man-behind-the-curtain/Last week, in the post, “Roland Burris blames the media for his troubles. A good example of bad media relations,” I examined the disastrous performance of Senator Roland Burris at a news conference that had been called to discuss his evolving story about contacts with staff and family [...]

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  Are we the racists for interpreting this cartoon ashaving racial meaning?If you have done something wrong and you understand that you have done something wrong, that is the right time to apologize. But if you do not understand that you have done something wrong and you are just apologizing because you worry that not [...]

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Below are a couple recent blog posts worth your time: Are social media changing the DNA of public relations? Not one bit! By Bill Sledzik on the ToughSledding blog. Introduce all the social media applications you like, but the practice of PR as defined over the past 30-or-so years will change little, if at all. [...]

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      Get back to the fundamentals in this economy I enjoyed the post, “The Return of Recession Public Relations,” by Nicholas Ludlum on the Tech PR Nibbles blog and wanted to offer my thoughts on the subject. We are in a recession and companies moved quickly to reduce their expenses in the final [...]

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       Cash4Gold Doesn’t Take Sh!t from Bloggers As is the case with most public relations counselors who represent public companies, I have a client that has a — let’s just call it an excited — chat board community devoted to the company. During the nearly three years that I have worked on this [...]

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Please do not buy this book Yesterday I sent Seth Brown an e-mail asking a few questions. As detailed in the post, “USA Today book review slams public relations ethics,” Seth penned a book review for USA Today and, in the process, dragged the entire public relations profession through the mud. The piece has also [...]

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This week we learned that the nation is in a recession. Wow, you don’t say. Just about all the entrepreneurs I know are holding off on hiring for the time being even if they have urgent needs as people leave. The macro economic environment is just too cloudy and uncertain to enter into a long-term [...]

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