So, I’m back from Vegas, where I spent the holidays. I won some money at roulette, but lost my hearing at Cirque de Soliel “Love.” I didn’t know they had speakers in the back of each seat. As if the four-ton woofers, tweeters (the old-fashioned kind) and speakers placed around the theater weren’t enough! For a while Vegas tried to… Read more →
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Top PR Headlines of 2011
What a year for PR (or lack of it)… Kim’s wedding, Charlie’s rant, Herman’s denial, Facebook’s fall and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream balls. Let’s take a closer look at five PR disasters from the past year: Cain was Cheesy – So this wind-up toy of an ex-Republican Presidential Candidate went a bit too far when he denied affair #1,… Read more →
Steppin’ Up for Occupy
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the Occupy movement must be feeling a few pats on the back. Besides the similar start-ups around the country and across the oceans, the Associated Press found a few copycats: Occupy the NBA, Occupy the Bathroom, Occupy the Bar and Occupy Sesame Street with Cookie Monster in front of a sign… Read more →
Power to the People
If anything proves the power of the consumer voice, the Netflix flip-flop does. In the company’s official statement, CEO Reed Hastings says, “There is a difference between moving quickly – which Netflix has done very well for years – and moving too fast, which is what we did in this case.” The statement doesn’t get too specific, but it looks like… Read more →
PR and the Spanish-Speaking Media: ¿Hablas Español?
Guest post by zcomm Director, JoAnn Mangione I attended a session this week designed to better acquaint public relations practitioners with the Spanish-speaking media and its audience. For the most part, the advice from the panelists was typical: don’t call at deadline, don’t pitch something too commercial, and if they are interested in the story, they will let us know.… Read more →
Netflix F*x Up
What were they thinking? First Netflix hikes prices for DVD mail-outs and online streaming a few months back, then they decide to apologize by video. In the PR world a sincere apology by a CEO is usually a good move, but this one bombed. Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings started out his blog apology by saying “I messed up.”… Read more →
Disco Gets Balls
It’s about time Dancing with the Stars spiced up its season and opened its arms to the real way Americans dance. Not everyone is Ozzie and Harriet, and DWTS is taking a more open-minded stance by casting Chaz Bono, the transgender activist, as one of its tango-ers. And, yes, it takes two to tango so Chaz will be paired with… Read more →