by PR Coach on May 15, 2012
Sometimes I wonder about the usefulness of PR people. These often-glib practitioners of public relations occasionally dabble in the research labs and scientific journals around the world to create junk science. Say what? Robert McHenry’s wonderful post Science vs PR in The American says it best: ” One of the major reasons that science is [...]
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by PR Coach on April 30, 2012
According to Gallup, public trust in mass media dropped from 70% during the 1970′s Watergate era to 44% today. Jay Rosen recently wrote a must-read post about this drop in confidence in the press. He poses some difficult questions and tries to answer why this trust has fallen so far. He asks how this is [...]
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by PR Coach on April 26, 2012
I was just drafting my own best PR Job Boards post when I got scooped by Amanda DiSilvestro over at the terrific PR Breakfast Club blog. You can see her Top 10 PR job boards list, a useful resource for PR jobs. It’s tough keeping up with smart new public relations grads isn’t it? So, [...]
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by PR Coach on April 23, 2012
Activists launched a creative, ironic and sophisticated but phony “Your Bank of America” PR campaign against the North Carolina-headquartered financial institution yesterday. This comes just a week after my recent post Perils of Online Crisis Public Relations. Andy Bichlbaum worked with The Yes Men and stepped forward to take credit for the high-profile public relations [...]
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by PR Coach on April 10, 2012
Another day, another trial by Twitter. This time for South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley when a blogger falsely reported she was under investigation by the IRS for tax fraud. The New York Times traced how the unsubstantiated rumor, posted on March 29th by 25-year old blogger Logan Smith, caught fire on Twitter. Smith who blogs [...]
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by PR Coach on March 29, 2012
Want a great recipe for Yorkshire Pudding? There’s a Pinterest for that. Searching for a cure for the common cold? It’s on Pinterest. Got a yen for yoga? It’s there as well. Looking for public relations? Not so much! Pinterest has it too but my search for “public relations” on Pinterest delivered mixed results. It [...]
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by PR Coach on February 26, 2012
Bob Conrad says they’re biased, error-prone, misleading and, on occasion, devious or even liars. No, he’s not referring to public relations people. He’s talking about the news media. Conrad is an award-winning public relations and marketing professional with a PhD (University of Nevada) and his APR accreditation. His new book Spin! How the News Media [...]
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by PR Coach on February 24, 2012
For inspiration, I follow a wonderful set of bloggers in public relations and many other fields. John Haydon is one of my favorites. He writes about social media marketing for nonprofits. His advice is always personable, practical and sometimes poignant. Recently, he shared a brief video about social media problem-solving for a nonprofit client. His [...]
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