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Why are so many of us addicted to “The Voice”? For me, it’s not because I am constantly reminded of what a poor singer I am.  I have my kids to remind me of that. Why I like “The Voice” over other reality shows has more to do…

PR professor and corporate PR veteran Terry Hemeyer says AVEs still reveal something many PR professionals claim to provide—tangible value.

Welcome to the Yottabyte Era. Yottabyte, which is equal to one quadrillion gigabytes, is the term to describe the next frontier of data technology. We’re now in the so-called Exabyte. Before that we had Terabyte and Petabyte eras. However you define …

To make life a little easier, here are some things not to do when pitching journalists.

At what point is it not OK for an employee to utter these words to people he’s managing: “You f—ing fairy; you’re a f—ing f—-t.” And at what point is it not OK to: Shove and kick the people you’re managing? The answer: when it

An abundance of self-confidence from executives can strain effective communications.

Recently, Dr. Bharat P. Bhatta of Sogn og Fjordane University College in Norway, laid out a modest proposal in the Journal of Review and Pricing Management: Airlines should charge overweight passengers more for their plane tickets than thin passengers….

With potential upticks in both the frequency and severity of future hacks on the horizon, every brand needs to operate as if it is next on hackers’ hit lists.

  Advice is easy to come by and just as easy to dispense. What’s more difficult is heeding advice. At a recent awards luncheon in Manhattan hosted by PR News sister brand CableFAX, a group of young “executives to watch” shared useful advice …

When I was a kid my folks cut out an advertisement from the Times that featured the opening lines from Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” and put the page in a safe place on my bedroom desk. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of t…