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Garbage Video Fan Art: Crowdsourcing Done Right
I love it when a plan comes together, and this one fires on my favorite cylinders: music, iPhoneography, social media and especially Public Relations. How could I not write a blog post about this!?...
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Stuff You May Have Missed: February 2012
Sabbath and Roses and Jurors – Oh, My! Big month here at rsmithing.com. To make sure I stay on track with blogging, I’ve set myself the goal each month of writing at least one major post about each of...
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Stuff You May Have Missed: March 2012
When I do a photo exhibition, it will probably be called this. For accuracy. To make sure I stay on track with blogging, I’ve set myself the goal each month of writing at least one major post about...
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PR Through A Font? Believe It.
Here’s some good public relations for Chattanooga, Tennessee design firm Insigne Design, and for the importance of typography in branding. Chatype for Chattanooga A recent story from Marketplace sets...
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Pulitzer Prize – NOT!
Is one of the bulwarks of writing using reverse psychology public relations? I wouldn’t even have noticed this if it weren’t for the fact that it seems to be happening two years in a row. In these days...
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Tide Turns Tide with PR
I love it when fiction and real life intersect in clever, funny, or serendipitous ways. I especially like seeing that happen to the mutual benefit of everyone involved – including the public at large –...
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Virgin America Gets PR Right
Unauthorized Bedtime Nonsense – Click for full size at Pinterest Safety can be fun, even for big businesses like airlines. I’ve written in the past about how refreshing it is to see a big company get...
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American Apparel’s “Bored During the Storm?” Campaign: PR Stunt or...
American Apparel Advertisement It would seem obvious these days that capitalizing on catastrophe via social media is in poor taste. So why would an otherwise savvy brand like American Apparel appear to...
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Is There Really No Such Thing As Bad Press?
You know the saying, “there’s no such thing as bad press?” Only to a certain extent do I believe this. The phrase would be more accurate if tempered with two qualifiers: Potentially, eventually. Lady...
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PR and Social Media News: Ragan and PR Daily
A couple of my favorite sources for news and happenings in both public relations and social media are PR Daily, and Ragan Communications (PR Daily is part of Ragan). I’ve been following both sites for...
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Russell Brand On MSNBC: Unintentional PR Victor
My favorite public relations episode of the past few weeks is the awkwardly hilarious yet unexpectedly salient interview with Russell Brand on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. It’s resulted in some...
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Corporatespeak Is Not Good Public Relations: A Revist to Best Buy
A story at Forbes inspired my analysis of Best Buy from a general PR view. I wrote this article a while back when Best Buy was at the precipice of failure (at least in a PR sense). But now their “Renew...
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Inside McDonald’s: PR 101
As one who pays attention to the public relations world, I often notice especially good or especially bad examples. One especially good example I noticed recently was McDonald’s CEO, Don Thompson, in a...
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In The News? LinkedIn Knows!
Perhaps you have a role as a spokesperson for your business or your public relations clients that sees your name, or their names in print, broadcast or on the web. If this is the case, then you’ll want...
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Twitter PR Win For Sainsbury’s
This is a particularly good Twitter PR moment from a while back for UK grocer Sainsbury’s I happened upon lately. It works because of the follow-up, and also for the brief interjection of personality...
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That’s Not What I’m Here To Discuss
Also known as “No Comment” Here’s some PR analysis from Matt Wilson at Ragan.com on a recent interview with former Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. As reported at Mediaite, after...
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An Airline Gets it… Right?
In these days of security pat-downs, rising travel costs, and seemingly ever-declining customer service, it’s with great interest that I read the story of Mile Runners — freakishly dedicated travelers...
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Looking for a Job in PR? Know Your Social Media.
You gotta’ walk the walk, not just talk the talk. In this video, Mark Ragan talks with Weber Shandwick VP of Digital Communications, Jason Wellcome, about how social media is playing an important role...
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Garbage Video Fan Art: Crowdsourcing Done Right
I love it when a plan comes together, and this one fires on my favorite cylinders: music, iPhoneography, social media and especially Public Relations. How could I not write a blog post about this!?...
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Stuff You May Have Missed: February 2012
Sabbath and Roses and Jurors – Oh, My! Big month here at rsmithing.com. To make sure I stay on track with blogging, I’ve set myself the goal each month of writing at least one major post about each of...
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