/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ clueful PR en-us michaelocc@gmail.com 2006-12-02T09:54:57-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2006/12/02/2006_report_of_the_commission_on_public_relations_education.php I've barely had time to skim the Executive Summary of this so far, but will read it properly and come back with some comments soon. In the meantime, here's a link to the complete 2006 report, subtitled "Public Relations Education... 69992@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2006-12-02T09:54:57-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2006/11/08/join_the_monologue.php Comments are temporarily b0rked. I'm sorry. No idea why. Highly-trained primates are scampering through the tubes even as we speak, attempting to unscrew the inscrutable. In the meantime, there's always email. [Editors: They should be back up now!]... 68841@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2006-11-08T09:44:54-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2006/11/07/newsnosh.php On the heels of other social media bookmarking/aggregation services such as NowPublic, PR agency Farrell Kramer Communications have launched NewsNosh. NewsNosh is billed as "a a searchable, user-contributed directory of online business news sources of all types: blogs, podcasts, news... 68727@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2006-11-07T09:38:54-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2006/02/28/burson_blogs.php Momentous news for the flack-o-sphere. Harold Burson, on his 85th birthday, has launched a blog. Blimey. The "century's most influential PR figure", as PR Week tagged him, is a blogger. Tipping point for the PR industry, methinks.... 49542@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2006-02-28T23:56:24-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/07/21/blog_editing_vs_print_editing.php Useful description in BusinessWeek's Blogspotting of the difference between editing a story for print and editing for the magazine's blog.... 35021@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-07-21T22:56:59-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/06/22/triumph_of_cluelessness.php Light blogging of late. Sorry. Amazing how busy one can be when one's tecnhically unemployed. A handful of proper posts in the pipeline, including some commentary (as you'd expect) on this Ketchum thing. In the meantime, have yourselves a snarky... 35010@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-06-22T11:16:24-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/06/07/la_times_on_blogs.php There's a fairly bland piece in the LA Times on "Using Blogs to Build Direct Links to Public". It's not a bad article -- worth a quick read as long as you're not expecting any major insights. Looks like it... 35009@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-06-07T13:23:10-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/06/07/i_know_i_should_drop_it_but.php Another quick addendum to my post, below, about that thinly-disguised bit of advertorial over at AlwaysOn. I know I should probably just drop this, but I can't help myself. Curious to see if there was any kind of ethical framework... 35008@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-06-07T00:47:55-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/06/05/canonical_pr_bloglist.php I think I'm just going to give up trying to update the blogroll of PR blog links here, and my own steadily growing list of PR-related blogs on the del.icio.us service. Now that I've discovered Constantin Basturea's canonical list of... 35007@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-06-05T21:23:11-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/06/03/the_queen_of_pr_measurement.php Katie Paine's PR Measurement Blog Only just found this, and I've spent the last hour or so reading through the archives. Katie Paine is THE expert on PR measurement. She's proven again and again that, contrary to popular misconceptions, the... 35005@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-06-03T15:09:14-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/06/02/airheaded_hilton_no_not_that_one.php My Dad's fond of saying: "Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your kids." If that were true, we might almost be able to hold a certain notoriously airheaded heiress accountable in the latest Hilton Hotels debacle. Renowned marketing strategist... 35004@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-06-02T22:24:42-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/05/31/sans_wire_and_sans_clue.php Laugh out loud story of how not to stage a cool tech press event, in this post from the UK Guardian's Online blog. I won't spoil the puncline. Go read it.... 35001@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-05-31T22:48:32-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/05/31/blogs_in_pr_survey.php Tom Murphy, on his splendid PR Opinions blog, points to this interesting survey of the use of blogs in corporate PR: "Tim Jackson is a student of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations in the UK. As part of his... 35000@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-05-31T15:41:37-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/05/26/manipulation_misfires.php A quick object lesson in the perils of media manipulation from today's papers. Yesterday, Canada's largest and most closely-watched public company, Bell Canada Enterprises, held their Annual General Meeting in downtown Toronto. The Toronto Star ran a surprisingly brief piece,... 34999@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-05-26T23:52:36-05:00 http://flackster.corante.com/archives/2005/05/25/shame_meme_spreads.php The BP/Morgan Stanley/GM ad pull story is starting to see some more traction, with Fast Company's blog and the Times online edition picking up the thread. Fast Company's take is particularly relevant reading for fellow flacks. AdRants also posts a... 34997@/home/corante/public_html/flackster/ Blink › 2005-05-25T16:17:45-05:00