Journalists Can’t Blame PR for Everything
“Mom, that nasty PR flack made me do it!”
A new article in the December 1, 2005, issue of Rolling Stone, written by James Bamford, slams John Rendon, of the Rendon Group, who was awarded a $16 million reputation management contract that Rolling Stone defines as:
“Manipulating information – and, by extension, the news media – to achieve the desired result.”
They also have a pull-out blurb that reads:
“There was a reason Judith Miller bought into the lies about Iraq –they were part of a read more...
Free Advice on Adding Tags to a Blog
At the risk of starting to sound like Steve Rubel's blog (hey, who am I kidding!), I just found another service called Tagyu from Adam Kelsey that suggests tags for your posts.
He also offers it as a plug in for those of you that blog from Movebale Type.
In his blog Kalsey invites developers to make their own tools using Tagyu. If someone makes something that works with read more...
Add Free Trackback to Your Blog, Even to Blogger
One of the MAJOR drawbacks to the free blog editing tools at Blogger is that they don't support Trackback. This is a HUGE disadvantage for a blogger as trackback can drive traffic and facilitates the process.
While trying to add trackbacks for one of my posts by cutting and pasting links between several sites, using a cool but labor intensive manual trackpback ping service, I ran across a link to Haloscan.
So, I went there read more...
Almost Free Christmas Gifts
On another note, if you came looking for almost free gift ideas for your friends, or yourself, go to this post at Idea Grove's Media Orchard. read more...
PR is the Perfect Christmas Gift
Every year, my local PRSA chapter in San Antonio chooses several charitable organizations to come and sit with us over lunch. The program is called the Gift of Guidance, and it is a small way that we try to help our community.
I think that every PR pro should spend some time working with local charities. It enriches the community, teaches more people about the profession (its not just press releases) and helps the PR pro see things from a different perspective.
We help the chosen charities assess their PR needs, put together read more...
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