Category: Public Relations

  • Don’t expect answers from Jupiter Research

    In show #150 of FIR last Thursday, Shel and I talked about Toby Bloomberg’s experience with Jupiter Research concerning their recent research report about corporate blogging. This is the report that says 35% of large companies (in the US) plan…

  • PR community action on social media press release

    Whether journalists are ready or not for the social media press release, the PR community now has a great opportunity to thoroughly discuss the concept and try to get some traction with the whole idea of evolving the press release…

  • Perplexing Blair op-ed piece in Guardian blog

    Here’s a good example of an eye-catching headline: Tony Blair starts blogging… This title of a post on Simon Collister’s eDemocracy Update blog certainly grabbed my attention as I scanned the headlines in my RSS reader. The reality is different,…

  • Kremlin PR headaches for Ketchum

    President Putin’s right-hand man says that Russia is more than fit to host the G8 summit, The Times reports: The leading Kremlin spin-doctor [Vladislav Surkov] rebuffed Western critics yesterday with a robust defence of President Putin’s democratic credentials in the run-up…

  • Talking about ethics and journalism

    Heading off shortly to PriceWaterhouseCooper’s office in Amsterdam for the Future of Journalism / Ethics in Journalism panel session organized by the Club of Amsterdam. I’m speaking on that panel and participating in the open discussion. Imagine: a PR guy talking…