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Letter to the Editor

February 23rd, 2005 by

Re: “The Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes And PR Has No PR” (And Another Thing… Feb. 9): I’m glad to see PR News isn’t afraid to throw a few tough punches, and I couldn’t agree… Continued

Media Metrics

February 23rd, 2005 by

If you want to reach younger singles en masse, hit the major markets a la Chicago, L.A. and New York. But if you want to target “singles,” so to speak, who now have more free… Continued

Beermaker-Backed Program Brews Budding Entrepreneurs

February 23rd, 2005 by

CLIENT: Miller Brewing Company PR AGENCY: Flowers Communications Group CATEGORY: Event Marketing BUDGET: $400,000 TIMEFRAME: September 2003 In the urban African-American community, there is a significant degree of entrepreneurship among young professionals aged 21-30 –… Continued

Carly’s Achilles’ Heel?…

February 16th, 2005 by

Need any more convincing on the importance of employee relations vis-a-vis the C-level? Failing to make herself available to the rank-and-file apparently contributed to last week’s ouster of Carly Fiorina as CEO of technology king… Continued

Media Metrics

February 16th, 2005 by

Consumers apparently don’t give a rat’s tail about the nasty court battle between Walt Disney Co. and one-time master of the universe Michael Ovitz. Disney shareholders are suing the company’s board and CEO Michael Eisner,… Continued

PR ‘Forgiveness’ Promotion Updates An American Icon

February 16th, 2005 by

CLIENT: Holiday Inn PR AGENCY: GCI Group CATEGORY: Marketing Communications BUDGET: $1,840,000 TIMEFRAME: Labor Day Weekend 2003 We’ve all done it — “borrowed” a hotel towel and taken it home. One in five of us… Continued

Googling For Gain: Search And Recover

February 16th, 2005 by

With the word “Google” now synonymous with research — not to mention becoming a verb in business vernacular: “to google” — conventional wisdom says any given Web site has to be among the first 30… Continued

It’s Reporters’ Compulsion For Conflict, Stupid

February 16th, 2005 by

Remember one of Gov. Bill Clinton’s messages when he ran against then President George H. W. Bush? With a laser-like focus on domestic issues, the campaign coined the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid” in order… Continued

PR Pulse

February 16th, 2005 by

In the time it takes you to read this item, our guess is that another few dozen blogs or so have hit the Web. Blogs – or online diaries – aren’t going away, and their… Continued

The Three Essential Steps To Avoid Analyst Paralysis

February 16th, 2005 by

Call it a Ouija board for PR execs who are trying to determine their futures with the all-too-crucial analyst community. William Hopkins, founder of The Knowledge Capital Group (Austin, Texas), which has trained and certified… Continued