What happens when your founder leaves the company that shares their name? The eponymously named Sterling Hager PR firm were faced with just that problem when Mr. Hager took the decision to get out of the PR business. The senior management team at the firm have migrated all the staff and clients to a new firm called Shift Communications. The former firm’s website has been consigned to the fantastic Wayback Machine.
PR Week reports on how to manage the departure of a senior executive and also looks at how Wal-Mart is preparing a PR offensive in advance of potentially the largest employee discrimination case in the US.
Vocus have announced that Mensa have chosen their PR management software. I hope at this stage Vocus have started using their own software as five months on, I still haven’t heard from them…
Finally, while I was doing some research on domain name issues, I happened across a very useful resource for any practitioners who might be facing issues from people hijacking derivitives of your domain name such as Acmesucks.com. The World Intellectual Property Organization has some very sensible guidelines.
Murphy's Law 