Who is Greg Smith, and why do we care? He was an employee who quit Goldman Sachs in a public way and posted it in a New York Times op-ed. The better question is why should we care? After...
If you haven’t yet bought "For Immediate Release: Shape Minds, Build Brands, and Deliver Results with Game-Changing Public Relations", the PR book by Ronn Torossian, the Founder & CEO of 5W Public Relations go today to buy it. It’s...
Some stories making the rounds regarding Public Relations:
I recently visited Atlantic City and have to say it’s truly an awfully unattractive, gross city. While Atlantic City’s marketing alliance has apparently hired the world’s largest Public Relations Firm to “help...
Interesting article today in Crain’s NY Business entitled “Reputation management firms help professionals defend against bad reviews” for example review monitoring for doctors, which discusses how search engines are the #1 trusted source for finding out information, which is...
So, following an earlier article I wrote about the definition of Public Relations, Keith Trivitt, Associate Director of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) wrote that after all of PRSA’s work on the definition of public relations, and...
U.S. News & World Report in their first-ever edition of Best Jobs said (this year) that Public Relations is one of the best jobs one can have and that the “profession should see significant growth over the next decade.”...
Random musings from some weekend reading:
Of course at the Oscars and at other celebrity events, brands will pay celebrities for associations. “There’s a hugely evolved culture of paying to wear clothes and product. Some actresses sign four-event contracts to...
Spent nearly half of this week ensuring that a certain issue wouldn’t appear in the media for a client of my crisis PR agency, and happily I can report – nothing was published. As such, I thought to share...
Front page news in Europe is that Former Metropolitan Police chief Sir Paul Stephenson has joined a crisis PR agency. Stephenson resigned following allegations of his police force being involved with alleged phone taps with The News of the...
My Thoughts on Jeremy Lin
The IRS is looking to hire a Public Relations agency – Wow could one imagine a more different engagement? In the latest case of the PR industry being a convenient whipping boy, the Mayor of...
