Let’s get the blogging story “straight” — a glimpse of the Technorati report

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Just over six months ago [in April 2009], I wrote my first blog post with the announced intention to aim for “A-List status.” Four months later I wrote an article about the “day I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven” — it was actually a report of a panel discussion headlining Steve Rubel among [...]

Media Relations — by the Book

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Let’s continue chatting about some of the tips from David E. Henderson’s “Making News in the Digital Era.“   [overview of David's book provided in previous post] “The practice of influential communications with the media comes from realistic knowledge of what makes appealing news, what is and is not a story identifying the best news outlet [...]

Handbook to guide your success in social media and more effective Public Relations efforts

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As both a PR teacher and professional journalist for many years, I was blown away when I found the perfect new text: Making News in the Digital Era by David E. Henderson If elections were held today for Social Media Expert, David gets my vote. His 2009  narrative/guidebook is perfect for helping learners on all [...]

Change is never, never easy: The Old PR Pitch must evolve to PR 2.0 Dialogue

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“PR 2.0: A Promising Future” — Part 4 of Putting the Public BACK in PR is quite an ambitious undertaking I covered the first section, ch. 15 on Community Managers in an earlier post. And today’s article only begins to summarize some of the key points in the three very diverse chapters remaining in Part [...]

No apologies from this PR 2.0 evangelist: Putting the PUBLIC Back in Public Relations

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Many of us who have taught Shakespeare know that the Great Bard based his renowned plays on history or legend — in other words, his genius was not in the originality of plots, but in the art of his storytelling. Art, imagination, creation are products of passion. Passion is the way we move forward. Passion [...]

Press Releases and Advertising are Dead

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Social Media is Pushing Dramatic Changes in Marketing TGIF. We’ll make this blog-lite, just in case you haven’t read my first post. Yesterday’s adventure along the SM Revolutionary Road was anything but “lite” – information-wise. Three Bay Area social media players: John Harper, Dean Guadagni, and Pat Kitano visited my SFSU advertising and PR classes [...]

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