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Shel Holtz
Communicating at the Intersection of Business and Technology
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Content summary: Vote at Podcast Alley; podcast reviews at iTunes; take the FIR listener survey; Kami Huyse and the PR powerwomen; where should employee communications report?; how Mercedes-Benz is redeeming its reputation; David Phillips reports; one more contribution to the employee blogger credibility vs authority debate; Inside PR podcast launches; Strumpette very briefly; April Fool’s Day gags; the FIR mashup with…

An email I received this evening with no signature line:

Dude—who cares if you’re on Squawk Box if you can’t even spell CAESARS Palace right on your own Web site.

It’s about CREDIBILITY on the street—not credibility in the tired, establishment media.

Nice try.  Not buying.

 

In the wake of the announcement that Steve Rubel and Jeremy Pepper have formed PepperRubel Public Relations, displaced Hurricane Katrina victim and former IABC chairman Charles Pizzo has announced that he and his retired partner, Edie Rosenbloom, have filed an infringement lawsuit against the nascent PR agency.

“We were PR PR long before Steve Rubel was even out of college,” Pizzo proclaimed. “Pizzo…

When you write books, you often find reviews written by everyone from newspaper columnists to full-time book critics to bloggers. Blogger reviews are the most meaningful to me—along with reader reviews posted to Amazon and B&N. But it’s particularly gratifying to get a good review from someone you already respect, even if you don’t know them.

That was the case today as I was reviewing my…

Strumpette is back, sad to say. I even read the latest post comparing PR people to aging German prostitutes. Reading Strumpette is kinda like slowing down to look at a ghastly car wreck. I must resist.

Fortunately, a dose of reality comes from the female PR blog, Flackette, who refers to the faux Amanda Chapel as a “PRostitute.” (Good one.) Flackette’s general take on…

I run into more and more companies that are blocking RSS feeds, blogs, and other tools that ultimately increase worker knowledge and improve innovation and productivity. While some companies worry that employees are spending time online at the expense of their work responsibilities, others are leaving these decisions in the hands of their IT departments who are more concerned about…

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