Earlier today I learned from Jeremy Pepper via Twitter that Phil Gomes has temporarily suspended his blogging activities. Phil was one of the first PR folks (along with Jim Horton and Richard Bailey) that I came across when I started blogging many years ago. In a trip of pure nostalgia I searched my old blog […]
Posted on March 26th, 2010 by admin
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Here is an interesting example of community relations from a university. One can’t help but wonder, however, if it is a gift that will be ignored because the receivers won’t know what to do with it. Even heavy users of the internet might not have a use for one gigabit per second internet speed. The […]
Posted on March 25th, 2010 by admin
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As this article indicates, there will be medical rationing under the new healthcare reform bill. That rationing will come from the government but it will also come from insurance companies pressured by the government to keep returns within narrow brackets. This will force insurance companies to become leaner and to pressure doctors and hospitals to […]
Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin
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Google’s move yesterday to redirect its Chinese searches to Hong Kong was daring and a fulfillment of its threat to leave China’s censorship. From a PR perspective, it was brilliant. From a business perspective, it is dangerous because China can easily block its Hong Kong address and probably will. That will leave Google shut out […]
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by admin
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This story points to another crisis concern for prominent organizations and individuals. A tendency for news organizations to run with unconfirmed online rumors and to treat those rumors as real news. There is little one can do to combat such misbehavior on the part of news organizations other than to catch errors immediately and correct […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Google has an extraordinary ability to garner great publicity for itself. It has done it again with its broadband announcement. Note that I have written publicity. The public relations aspect will come into play once the high-speed internet is installed and working. Then, communities served by Google and the public at large will begin to […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by admin
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It seems that climate change experts are combating a crisis. The record snowstorms on the East Coast and across the US have given support to those who say there is no global warming. Experts are now trying to differentiate between local weather and overall earth temperature. They will need powerful reasoning to regain public opinion, […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Google is famous for its motto, “Do no evil.” That is why its present cock-up with its new Facebook-like software called Buzz is interesting. One wonders how the company could have committed such a PR blunder. Privacy advocates are hammering Google for making Buzz too powerful. Buzz works with G Mail and Google had built […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by admin
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This story is humiliating for one of the world’s largest wine companies. It seems that some Frenchmen passed off inferior wine as Pinot Noir to E&J Gallo wine company and got away with it for two years. The question is how did Gallo not know? Were the sophisticated palates of its wine tasters fooled by […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by admin
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How is this for media relations? You badger a reporter until he gets angry and sends an abusive e-mail to his editor that accidentally comes to you. You then put out a press release quoting the e-mail, and you get the reporter fired. Nice, huh? That is what apparently happened here. With media rapport like […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by admin
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