11th May '08Today's Top Blog Posts on Public Relation
1. Listen to Phillip Adams interview on ‘Hay Girls’ [Corporate Engagement]
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Phillip Adams interviewed playwright Alana Valentine and former Hay Girl Christina Riley Green last night (replay 4.30 pm today)From 1961 to 1974, the Hay Institution operated asa total security institute for…
2. "the blue monster is the future of marketing"
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I haven’t talked about The Blue Monster for a while.The Blue Monster, as you will remember, is a cartoon-based “Social Object” that me and my Microsoft buddy, Steve Clayton, unleashed on the good but unsuspecting folk…
3. Web 2.0 needs to move towards quality…
I was catching up on my RSS and podcasts consumption when I found myself getting very stressed.Listening to “For Immediate Release” (Episode #341) there was a listener comment from Mitch Joel, who raised the issue…
4. CoolSpotters and Matt Damon’s Sweater
I really enjoyed “The Bourne Identity” when I first saw it in the theatre (here’s an early, rambling blog post on the film). I also really wanted Matt Damon’s sweater. He wears this kick-ass black,…
5. PR Squared: Five Thoughts on The Future of Public Relations
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Been doing a fair amount of reading and pondering about the future of SHIFT, and of PR in general. We’ve come to think of our agency as a “tween.” No longer a scrappy start-up, and increasingly finding…
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6. BlogWrite for CEOs - Debbie Weil on Corporate Blogging and Social Media: Corporate Blogging 2.0: Southwest Airlines’ Blog Re-launches
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Take a look below if you haven’t heard about the re-launch of Southwest Airlines’ corporate blog, Nuts About Southwest, two years after its April 2006 debut. More here. This is state of the art use of social media by a…
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7. Pork-Fed Poultry?
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The global increase in grain prices may make the meat supply less safe. The European Union is considering a relaxation of feed bans that prohibit animal by-products being used as feed for other animals in the human food…
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8. The great tea controversy
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David Bradley pointed out that my assertion that tea should be made with freshly boiled water was, scientifically, untenable. I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to. For me, perhaps, tea is a faith-based…
9. The Bad Pitch Blog: Twitter Cures Disease and…and Cleans Ovens Too!!!
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Admit it. At some point, in some form or another…Twitter pisses you off. I’ve been there and back.The above headline openly mocks the effusive glee that drips from the metric ton of online chatter around this…
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10. Stuff that caught my attention #2
Another couple of things that caught my attention that I feel are worth highlighting.First of which is KMPG’s ‘That’ll Never Work…’, a book about twelve Irish entrepreneurs. From a PR perspective this is a…
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To dinner last night at The Groucho Club to toast the launch of “The Power of the Commentariat”, the new report from Editorial Intelligence and The Reuters Institute, which Weber Shandwick and The City of London…
12. The Evolution of the Pitch
It wasn’t that long ago that we were mailing pitches to journalists. Yes, snail mail. Or, as I did during the summer of 1986 while working for a Congressional Campaign on Long Island, driving out to the editorial…
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13. Pentagon’s Propaganda Documents Go Online, but Will the TV Networks Ever Report this Scandal?
Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon’s illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it…
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14. Britannica Online Kicks Wikipedia’s Butt :: It Isn’t Even Close
Growing up in a university family, both parents were professors, I was always surrounded by books. One vivid memory is the encyclopedias and dictionaries that filled our home.Britannica was one of the encyclopedias. …
15. Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know | Online Marketing Blog
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Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. (Follow me @leeodden) We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as…
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