We’ve all seen footage shot from a dash cam in a police car. Often we see something horrific or informative, but sometimes it’s actually funny. Now we have body cams. If we thought smartphones and portable digital cameras were bringing a whole new experience to our screens, just wait as the number of body cams […]
Social Media Create Work for Crisis PR
When we saw the digital revolution coming and the newspaper titled “Demise†being delivered to our doorstep, I knew those of us in public relations were in trouble. How wrong I was. After all, spinmeisters were highly dependent upon the working press to navigate a crisis. We knew the deadlines and the proper pathways to […]
Making Our Country Great Again… And Again… And Again
Political wordsmithing may sound new, but guess again The debates are in full swing. You’re hearing some very good ideas issuing forth from both sides of the political spectrum. And a lot of what you hear sounds all too familiar. Let’s look at a few sound bites that seem to reside at that Big Recycling […]
The New World Order (NWO): Text Speak
Vangie Beal has a neat list on the Webopedia Quick Reference Guide to more than 1,400 text message and online abbreviations to help those of us less hip than my two teenage daughters with translation of an ever-increasing list of acronyms. TG (Thank God). When I taught in college, I’d always say, “Shorter is better.†[…]
The Rise of We The Media
“The venerable profession of journalism finds itself at a rare moment in history where, for the first time, its hegemony as gatekeeper of the news is threatened by not just new technology and competitors but, potentially, by the audience it serves.†-Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis from Hypergene, a media consulting and design firm This […]