PR Opinions

 MediaMap’s Expert PR has hit the wires.  This month they look at Client Retention, the Los Angeles media landscape and Media Training amongst other topics.
 The New York Times is churning out a lot of inches on blogging.  Here they discuss “business blogging” and the Boston Globe follows suit.
 Steve Outing of the Poynter Institute has urged publishers [...]

I’m sure most of you have read by this stage that the Supreme Court has referred the Nike case back to the courts in California.  The case concerns whether communications from Nike (and therefore any corporation) are protected by the first amendment or not.  Of course that’s a very simplified version of events!
Here’s the (ahem) Guerilla News [...]

Comical Ali or  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf as he is named is alive and well.  I am sure a sigh of relief will sweep over the PR community as our highest profile practitioner is back in circulation.
According to an interview with him he is planning on writing a book on the fall of the Ba-athist regime, [...]

At least it is in Dilbert’s world….

Recently I posted about how blogs are not mainstream.  From talking with other PR professionals (not those who read this blog obviously) there is still widespread misunderstanding among our profession. This is a lifecycle issue.
A sizeable chunk of PR pros still don’t dig online communications, so it’s not surprising many of them don’t know what [...]

OK, this post is a little unfair, but I’m going ahead anyway. Many of you will be aware of the Lizzie Grubman affair. I covered it back in August.
Lizzie is a high profile New York society PR who backed her new SUV into a crowd outside a nightclub and drove off. She got a [...]

As predicted by Rafat Ali back in January, blogs are beginning to get bought.
News has leaked out that MarketingFix a collaborative blog focused on marketing, has been snapped up by Andy Bourland. Andy is the founder of ClickZ.
The MarketingFix blog will be re-packaged with another Bourland purchase, Adventive which hosts marketing related discussions and the combined [...]

Back in May I had a little rant about a PR-services firm that kept spamming me.
Now I actually like PR newsletters, as long as there’s some value in them. I happily receive newsletter from 10-15 firms.
Where I get antsy is when there’s no value or all the links are to subscriber-only content.  Then I have to [...]

 e21 has published a good opinion piece on the 7 deadly sins of media relations. ”Good PR essentially comes down to hard work by smart people.”
 eXubrio, a marketing firm has put together a good whitepaper on “The ABCs of Public Relations”
 Kevin Dugan has spotted how Forbes think a good media profile is the essence of [...]