IABC has released an e-mail survey of communicators that found a majority of us feel we get too much e-mail and are spending two hours or more daily dealing with e-mail. It is a great follow-up to my lament last week, Get Control of Your Inbox.

I included a chart showing the sources of e-mail and the respondents feeling about each category. Not surprisingly, we feel we are getting too much external news and professional subscriptions read more...

It has been awhile since I have run a Fun Friday post, but today is Friday and I just stumbled across something fun that is also an interesting example of how one company illustrates their tagline with social media. So, I thought I would share.

GE’s tagline is “Imagination at Work.”

So they created a nifty online tool that can help you to collaborate with others on an idea – to expand your own imagination. Thus, read more...

Okay, I admit it, I have an e-mail problem. I have 1,203 items in my Outlook inbox, 781 in my Yahoo mailbox, and a few starting to stack up in gmail. Oh, not to mention, I have an e-mail address with one of my clients that I am afraid to check.

I don’t know about you, but as a communication professional, and a contractor, I save e-mails obsessively, and rarely go back to weed them out.

The DownloadSquad blog offers the following read more...

I am fascinated by viral video. Videos like the Eepy-Bird Mentos and Diet Coke video are brilliant examples of how viral video can make, or break, a career. But that same video is also an example of how copyright law can be a murky pond of green goop. The video, which was posted at the Eepy-Bird website and powered by read more...

The public relations blogging field is crowded with contenders. There are so many good reads out there. My RSS feedreader has about 150 blogs in it, about a third of them PR blogs that I monitor, the rest blogs and feeds I monitor for clients.

I have been blogging for just over a year and one of my favorite blogs is New Millennium PR, which is authored by Andrea Weckerle. Andrea is a fantastic writer and read more...