Annually, I prognosticate public relations and related happenings that have a high degree of certainty of occurring in the upcoming year. Call it wimpy if you’d like, but I like a sure thing. And, unlike the 2011 end-of-world predictions and those for 2012, I’d rather not be the laughing stock of my loyal readers. So, […]
Penn State: You can’t make this stuff up
Fact is stranger than fiction: Penn State has proven that repeatedly over the past month. The school has gone beyond critical mass and the meltdown has played out in front of tens of millions of sports fans and hundreds of millions of sickened citizens. The Penn State debacle has all the ingredients of a PR […]
Crisis Planning 101
It is interesting to note that Monday morning quarterbacking occurs not only after football games, but certainly after a crisis. Our local business journal did an extensive story on how crisis planning would have greatly helped immediately after the recent stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair. Several local public relations gurus weighed in on […]
Morphing Public Relations: Keeping up with the times
Recently a good friend and able competitor closed his public relations operation after many, many successful years. However, things turned south in the past few years and his business waned. Our “Paper of Record†reported on the shift in the PR marketplace, suggesting, “the times they are a changing.†Well, yes they are. The article […]
Democracy – Who said it had to be pretty.
Democracy – Who said it had to be pretty. Ok, so there is a lot of bad Ju-Ju out there about our country’s leadership in the executive and legislative branches. Certainly the popularity polls for politicians are dropping like flies encountering a can of full-strength Raid, ® but is it all that bad? Really? When […]