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How to send a takedown notice without being a jerk

June 22, 2009

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Strategically monitoring and managing your online reputation If you are not aggressively monitoring your own and your organization’s online presence, you are not only missing big-time opportunities, you are also potentially enabling damage toward reputations that might otherwise be avoided. Here’s why: What is said about you online is more critical now than ever before because with [...]

Palin’s Pushback – Unfortunately Necessary

June 19, 2009

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Palin necessarily stood up for herself and her family in order to get to a resolution with Letterman.

The Legitimacy of the Non-Response

April 24, 2009

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5 questions to ask before reacting     Strategic level communications requires instantaneous decision-making that can either hurt or harm organizations and their publics. Public relations practitioners instinctively know this, but they also have a tendency to over-communicate. In many, if not most, instances, communication is key. In other situations, it can prove to be an organization’s death [...]

Top 10 Words Rendered Meaningless by Social Media

March 10, 2009

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In no particular order, here are the top 10 words turned meaningless by collective bandwagon jumping onto what is being called new, or social, media: 10. Community 9. Social 8. Strategy/strategist 7. Top 6. Platform 5. Market/ing 4. Consultant 3. Relate/relationship 2. Value 1. Transparency Honorable mention for being suspiciously overused: evangelist. Please add yours in the comments below.

The Art of Giving Advice and the Difference Between Strategies and Tactics

January 19, 2009

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Strategic Advising FREE e-book Now Available Two weeks ago I mentioned that public relations inherently suited for emerging, social media. A (somewhat false) debate has arisen that, conversely, social media experts inherently know public relations. It’s an assumption that must be granted some sympathy given the many illusions these technologies generate. Despite public relations’ paradoxical brand problem, PR [...]