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The Volume of Bad PR Pitches is Out of Control

Sword and the Script

They hated the company in a visceral way that defies the calm and impartiality that’s characteristic of journalism. Since 2007 or so I’ve managed blogs professionally – PR has changed – and eventually starting this one here. For a while I thought it was just SEOs trying to build links. A Blogging Perspective.

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Constructing the Organizational Narrative: PR definition in the making

PR Conversations

Ira Basen’s 2007 six-part, award-winning CBC Radio Show, Spin Cycles: the spin, the spinners and the spun , proved to be highly influential for me. A bit of the back story. Possibly this has been used before. I used it three times in Public Relations 2011. My first convert and “organizational narrative” champion : Eric Bryant.

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How to Get On in New Communications: Be Nice

ZudePR

You work in public relations, SEO, content marketing or social media marketing. So I jotted down a list of PR/digital/SEO/content marketing influencers. Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author (Everybody Writes), keynote speaker, and the world’s first chief content officer (MarketingProfs). I think so.