by Kami Huyse
New PR Skill – Learn Social Media 5 Ways to Join the Conversation Fast Blogging with Flickr Originally uploaded by nico.. According to a story in the Daily Dog today about a survey conducted by an independent research firm for Accountemps, 31 percent of senior executives (including those from read more...
by Kami Huyse
Dilbert Becomes A Blogger Syndicated columnists and cartoonists are starting blogs all over the Web. Several started in October, like one of my favorite cartoonists, Scott Adams, who draws the Dilbert cartoon. On Christmas day, David Astor of Editor and Publisher wrote a pretty good article about syndicated columnists turned blogger. Quite frankly, I have always felt that bloggers have much in common with the editorial page of the newspaper, but as some of those interviewed said, there read more...
by Kami Huyse
The Authentic Voice: Integrity is A-Lister’s Friend When I opened the San Antonio Express News today, a column by Dave Beck caught my eye. It revealed that the online Merriam-Webster dictionary had announced its top 10 words looked up in 2005. It turns out that the most looked-up word in 2005 was: Integrity. This doesn’t surprise me. In a world filled with corporate scandals, mischievous journalists, slippery politicians and most recently, read more...
by Kami Huyse
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...
by Kami Huyse
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.
At the time, The Rendon Group was MIA as media tried to contact them for comment read more...