by Kami Huyse
Pay For Play Update Former CIA Officer Defends 'Wash Post' Op Ed in Online Chat Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA case officer now a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, defends the covert activity in the scandal, but also says that the government should get rid of the Lincoln Group and re-develop its own expertise. PR isn't covert, so on that I agree with him wholeheartedly. Tags: Pay for Play|Lincoln Group|PR Scandal|read more...
by Kami Huyse
New Media and PR Campaigns - Part II soft rain drops on the water surface Originally uploaded by pyrrho. Shel over at Naked Conversations took exception to my post calling a blog a "tactic." I knew that using the word “tactic” would be a bit read more...
by Kami Huyse
Blogging Should Be a Part of Some PR Campaigns
but not all...
Shel Israel at Naked Conversations wrote a post yesterday with his advice to Web 2.0 early stage companies:
“You are better off going with blogging and NOT using a PR agency until you are further along in your development,” Shel blogged.
He goes on to say that while PR firms are useful, they may not be in the early stages of a tech launch (Web 2.0). I made a comment in the post and Shel asked me to take the conversation to my blog.
I respect Shel’s opinion on read more...
by Kami Huyse
Meaningful Blogging Benchmarks They aren’t all that easy to come by In the comments section of my post about my blogging goals, Katie Delahaye Paine asked: “Shouldn't there by be some kind of a compilation or industry average for PR blogs?” I think this would be a great service to get this benchmarking information; unfortunately, most meaningful stats require you to own the site in order to get them and I haven’t seen an aggregating service that adequately serves these stats up for PR blogs. And read more...
by Kami Huyse
Got Books, Will Read!
Are you short of time?
Matt Vance of Austin, Texas, has made it easy to keep up on your reading by boiling down the essence of popular business books (along with a few others thrown in) on his Book Notes Wiki.
So what are you waiting for, get with it, click and read.
Thanks to the Communication Nation for helping me find it.
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