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Gone To (Google) Hell: Resurrecting A Reputation When The Devil’s In The Digital

June 11th, 2007 by

Picture this: You are sitting at your desk. It’s half-past midnight. You can’t sleep, so you’ve decided to engage the Internet in a rhetorical game of Google-stalking. You type in names of long-lost friends and… Continued

Innovation As The Key To Success? Yes, If Communicators Lead The Way

June 11th, 2007 by

If you translate the game of poker into a PR dialect, this would be the breakdown: You are the dealer, and your shareholders are the “others” situated around the table, peeking over their own cards… Continued

Tip Sheet: More Of The Same, And Better: How To Expand Your Program After Its Initial Success

June 4th, 2007 by

Expanding your program and budget after a successful PR initiative should provide a win-win scenario: creating more exposure as momentum builds and elevating awareness from the initial burst of coverage, making it easier and more… Continued

Case Study: Carpet One PR Campaign Takes The Workhorse Of Philanthropy And Gives It New Legs

June 4th, 2007 by

Company: Carpet One Floor & Home Agency: Creative Press Timeframe: Fall 2004 – present It takes nothing away from the dreadful disease to say that breast cancer has become the workhorse of the philanthropic world.… Continued

Quick Study: The Modernization Of HR; Employee Engagement Linked To Customer Loyalty; Most Reputable Companies

June 4th, 2007 by

Modernizing HR A recent survey of senior business and human resources executives, conducted by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Economist Intelligence, revealed that the HR function is overloaded by the enormous demands placed on it as… Continued

How To…Manage The Middle Man

June 4th, 2007 by

Middletons never did have a very good rap: Middle children stereotypically develop complexes from being the more neglected progeny; the playground pastime “monkey in the middle” taunts the unlucky outsider in a game of keep-away;… Continued

Did You Know?

June 4th, 2007 by

Seven Things You Will Learn In This Week’s Issue of PR News 1. 52% of surveyed execs don’t have a chief HR officer. 2. Because middle managers perform a job function and manage, it is… Continued

Mapping Your Message: The Key To Telling A Media Relations Success Story

June 4th, 2007 by

Media relations may be the foundation on which public relations was built, but oh how times have changed. Disintermediation, increased public scrutiny, consumer-generated media, stakeholder empowerment…

Playing Board Games: Maximizing External Insight To Avoid Checkmate

June 4th, 2007 by

Corporate-boardroom news usually hits the media pipeline as ‘it’ hits the fan. Enron’s dramatic fall from grace catapulted its powers-that-be from the boardroom to the courtroom; Hewlett-Packard’s boardroom scandal sent the company’s reputation through a… Continued

Tip Sheet: Can The Public Relations Industry Save The Planet? Maybe Not, But It Could Try

May 28th, 2007 by

Green has gone mainstream, and it’s about time. As a nation, we’ve been embarking on this movement for more than 30 years, and it’s officially hit its tipping point. After all, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Vanity… Continued