PRSA’s #PRdefined: Please Don’t Redefine Failure
“Public relations helps an organization and its publics adapt mutually to each other.” That’s the old definition. There are three options for a new definition: “Public relations is the management function of researching, communicating and collaborating with publics to build...Read More
Sales? PR doesn’t do Sales or Marketing
Sales. It’s about as far away from PR as you can be, and still, be in business. But maybe not for long. PR pros should not develop campaigns to drive sales. PR should not use calls-to-action. PR should not be...Read More
Negative Buzz, PR Calling out PR and the Twitter Few and the Many, Taglines and Long Live the Web [Smart Things 1.26.12]
Smart things – bookmark them, write them down and turn them into a blog post. In hopes of sharing some content I’ve found interesting and noteworthy, here are five smart things I’ve heard lately. 1) Negative buzz vs. crisis on social...Read More
PR Theory: 5 Pillars to Dialogic Communication
The web is a place to build dialogic communication – a free interchange of ideas that completes the communication loop – a building block of relating to the public. There are five pillars to dialogic communication: 1) Feedback. A feedback...Read More
Public Relations 2010: The Year in Search
Search is an important element for any public relations practitioner. SEOs have a long noted that search and social media go together, and now that Google has launched social search, we’re beginning to understand how much of an impact social media will have on search...Read More
PR and the Magic Number 7
One may be the loneliest number, but seven too stands apart. Apart should not be confused with alone. In fact, seven has a lot of company. Certainly, there are top ten 10 lists (or even commandments) – and there are also top five lists for those...Read More
