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Most Major League Baseball teams are now in full swing with their spring training game schedules, leading up to the season opener April 4th when the World Series Champion New York Yankees visit the Boston Red Sox. Long suffering Cubs fans like me are filled with hope and excitement this time each year. It’s the [...]

The first ever “Help a PR Pro Out” Day Twitter chat (hashtag #HAPPO) happens this Friday Feb. 19th from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This post is but one of many from bloggers supporting awareness of the event. Leave it to PR and communications folks to conceive and rally around a meaningful [...]

Ok, add me to the list of marketers, PR practitioners and bloggers who feel compelled to comment about Apple without any prompting from the company whatsoever. Or have I been prompted in some cosmic way?
Last week’s “at last” arrival of the iPad, its launch event in San Francisco and the PR halo surrounding it signaled [...]

I love when a good book finds me. This was the case with “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, And Blogs” by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot. It was next up on my Amazon Wish List but then – Boom! – it came my way via a promotional copy handoff from [...]

Ninety countries, 45 languages, an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary (for “D’oh”) and 450 episodes of quality programming spanning 20 years … this is “The Simpsons,” or, these are the Simpsons I should say. As an entity, individual family members and as a diverse cast of characters they’ve helped shape how we express humor [...]

The latest Digital Dialogue column for Public Relations Tactics, a publication from the Public Relations Society of America, is available in the November print edition and here online. It’s in PDF format this month, as I believe PRSA is ironing out how my column will post to their freshly redesigned Web site. (They did a nice [...]

Earlier this month Shamrock Foods and a variety of participating Arizona restaurants introduced Dine4AZ, a three month campaign to encourage residents and visitors to eat out more often.
One in 10 working Americans are restaurant employees according to the National Restaurant Association, and Arizona has more than a quarter million food service employees per the Arizona [...]

One more time around for this August PRSA Tactics article about thought leadership and the common characteristics of people who successfully portray it on the social Web, and elsewhere. I received some nice comments and additional ideas from readers on this article which is located here on the Public Relations Society of America Web site. [...]

My article, “Brand aid: Creating opportunities in your customer community,” appears in the June print and online editions of PRSA Tactics.  It looks at how public relations practitioners can identify interesting stories and conversation material by monitoring various aspects of their organization’s online communities, or really any Web communities where their customers and prospects congregate. [...]

My “Tweeting up with THE_REAL_SHAQ: Phoenix Suns PR Pros embrace Twitter, social media” article for PRSA Tactics published today. Thanks as always to the PRSA publications staff, and also to Krystal Temple (@sunsprgirl), Amy Martin (@phoenixsunsgirl), Jamie Morris (@sunsprdiva), and Jeramie McPeek (@sunswebmaster) from the Suns organization for their time spent meeting and interviewing with [...]