Christmas Open House Brings Dividends My friend Ellen is pretty good at using her PR acumen to make friends and influence people. Every year she has a PR Open House Christmas Party at KLRN, San Antonio’s public television station. Due to the nature of her job, she gets a lot of promotional stuff every year, great things like a Roy Underhill bobblehead doll, a Mona Lisa CelebriDuck (which now swims in my tub), and other equally eclectic and interesting stuff. She invites her read more...

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PR Agency in Iraqi “Pay for Play” Responds to Charges

A little housekeeping about The Rendon Group, the “PR” agency involved in paying Iraqi reporters for coverage, as well as a whole other boatload of covert activities.

I blogged about in this scandal after an article appeared in Rolling Stone.

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Kate Moss Ad is Balm for PR Crisis KATEMOSSCOCAINEPOSTER Originally uploaded by SPLÛTE.   It seems that model Kate Moss is attempting to refresh her “personal brand” in a self-depreciating commercial for Virgin Mobile. The ad debuted last night on the Internet and will be shown on television starting Saturday. Moss fell from grace after she was photographed using read more...

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Barbie Has an Image Problem Most pre-teens feel it’s “cool” to torture the doll snow Originally uploaded by death is a picnic. Girls aged seven to 11 seem to have particular venom for Barbie, but is hasn’t seemed to harm the sales of the doll. In a study conducted by academics at the University of Bath’s school of management girls read more...

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WARNING Spell-check may cause stupidity Yesterday, I stumbled on the blog of Steve Cody and an entry he made decrying spell-check. It made me recall a study a few years back by the University of Pittsburgh’s Dennis Galletta, Professor of Business Administration, which showed that spell-check can actually make your writing worse. In the study, 33 undergraduate students were asked to proofread a one-page read more...

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