If you haven’t heard, journalists are being threatened in new ways – unthanks to social media. It’s called doxxing. When the target of negative news coverage (or even neutral news coverage) gets miffed, there are plenty of ways to get even. In the
Read More →There’s a battle brewing in New York state over the distinction between lobbying and PR – with an adopted advisory opinion of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics now moving to a court challenge. The commission adopted an advisory opinion that reinterprets lobbying
Read More →Remember the Reader’s Digest headlines – I am Joe’s colon? These were written as first person accounts of an organ residing in your body – speaking from a colon’s perspective (of course). That was more than 30 years ago. Today, you can jump
Read More →Show of hands: How many top brands use cause related marketing to win the hearts and minds of their target audiences? You may be surprised at the answer from Cause Marketing Forum: Although the term “cause-related marketing” is attributed to American Express and its
Read More →Wil Wheaton’s Words Are Not FREE. Write it? Get paid for it. So says Wil Wheaton, whose fan base is significant. He kindly blasted the Huffington Post for asking him to republish one of his posts for FREE. Wheaton – an actor, comedian,
Read More →Seriously, who wants to be average? One communications trend we do love is branded content, which means, as we love to say in our tag: own your story, tell your story, live your story. Here’s how we made content king for one of
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