Day: April 17, 2003

PR Opinions will be in hiatus until April 28, 2003 while I am travelling and taking some much needed R&R.  Posting will restart promptly upon my return. 

 

The Chicago Tribune has an interesting article by Maureen Ryan on the struggle publishers and broadcasters are having understanding and managing blogging.

Let’s be honest for a moment.  When you are under pressure, which comes with the profession, sometimes you don’t pay enough attention to your writing style.  Sometimes the most appalling “corporate-isms” sneak into your press releases, backgrounders etc.

Well there’s a website that serves as a welcome reminder to us all.  Corporate Babble provides loads of real examples of corporate speak.  It’s worth a visit – though not if you have an aversion to words like “solutions”, “strategic” etc.

Thanks to the Holmes Report for the link.

As you probably know most media outlets pre-prepare obituaries of prominent world figures.  Then when they pass away, the panic in researching and creating content is reduced.  While this is understandable, it’s probably recommended that they keep this content secreted away until the time is right. Enter the Internet.

Someone on CNN’s web team was obviously playing around, because the CNN website published a load of premature obituaries… and of course The Smoking Gun grabbed them for prosperity. I’m sure Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Fidel Castro, Bob Hope and Nelson Mandela will all be interested in how CNN will remember them.

Thanks to Darren Barefoot for the link!