You may have already read about this, but I missed it. It’s a clear warning to anyone tempted to play around clients’ time sheets.
Earlier this month, two Ogilvy & Mather executives were indicted for conspiracy for allegedly overbilling the U.S. government for a campaign on behalf of the Office of the National Drug Control Policy.
One of the executives, CFO, Thomas Early has since resigned.
The Fast Company blog discusses PR invitations in the wake of an invitation from Porter Novelli on behalf of Gillette.
Here’s the follow up on the original piece with an explanation of the media event, it’s for the launch of a new razor (the M3). Interestingly while they spent some cash on the invite they didn’t give attending media any samples.
I am all in favor of companies protecting their brand but sometimes I think companies become over zealous. Mikerowesoft takes its brand very seriously particularly online.
As she nears the court room expect a snow storm of coverage on Martha Stewart over the next couple of days.
Is Martha winning the PR war? After a very slow start some seem to think so.
Kevin Dugan has more.
PR Week is a fantastic weekly PR business journal.
However, regardless of this fact, this is probably the last time you will see any reference to PR Week on this blog.
Why?
Well up until now they provided limited access to a small number of their stories each week on their website. But they have decided to remove the general access to those few stories and restrict it to subscribers. As a result there’s no point referencing it – just as when O’Dwyer’s did the same there was no point referrring to them either.
It’s a pity and personally I think it’s unwise but they’re in business to make cash. So we bid them a fond farewell.
Murphy's Law 