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Category: Public Relations

  • Addressing the PR spam question on FIR Live

    Last October, Chris Anderson of Wired magazine outed over 300 email addresses as spammers. In May, Lifehacker.com’s Gina Trapani started a PR Spammers wiki. These two acts are symptomatic of growing frustration and anger by many people who perceive the…

  • Help the geek get the glory

    If you yearn for the simpler geeky days when MS-DOS and 640K of RAM ruled, along with pixelated images on VGA monitors, you’ll likely appreciate the Server Quest game. Although geared towards the IT crowd, this web-based game to promote…

  • Touching the tip of the social media iceberg

    One of the more interesting ways I’ve experienced participating in a conference is being chairperson of the event. When you’re the chair you not only have to pay close attention to everything going on, but also you are well placed…

  • PR spam is mostly the result of being careless

    Like many in the PR and journalism blogosphere, I get PR pitches by email every day. Like many, too, I welcome pitches if they are relevant to my interests. If they are, the chances are good that I will talk…

  • GM Europe launches executive blog

    Yesterday, General Motors Europe launched Driving Conversations, a new executive blog. We have an exclusive FIR interview with Chris Preuss, GM Europe’s Vice President of Communications, about the new blog, recorded a few days ago ahead of the public launch.…