Posted on August 10, 2005 8:16 am by Shel Holtz | General
There is a commodity that is at the core of our work in the communications field, and the related fields of marketing and advertising. Without this commodity, we could never hope to wield influence. Unlike oil, it is a resource that will always exist, yet it is finite; there is only so much of it to go around. This commodity…
Posted on August 9, 2005 9:18 am by Shel Holtz | General
It has nothing to do with public relations or communications or the online world, but it’s August 9, 2005, a decade to the day since Jerry Garcia left us. The Grateful Dead scene never mattered to me all that much. Not that I minded it. It was certainly entertaining (I remember telling my wife once when she noted how interesting the…
Posted on July 20, 2005 3:22 pm by Shel Holtz | General
This is already on several sites, but the more publicity the better. From Neville, who got it from O’Dwyer’s via Jeremy Pepper:
Liver Transplant is Needed
Shari Kurzrok, a 31-year-old VP at Ogilvy PR Worldwide, will die within days if she does not receive a liver transplant.
She was admitted to New York University Medical Center last weekend, and was told she needs an immediate…
Posted on July 20, 2005 6:23 am by Shel Holtz | General
On his blog, Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo asks for an email blacklist of tech-oriented PR agencies. “I get so damned much spam (I mean “pitches”) that I’m starting to think that life would be better if I just blocked email from all the big names in Tech PR,” Zawodny complains. He doesn’t even want to omit the domains of PR agencies Yahoo works with, like Voce.…
Posted on June 26, 2005 9:08 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | General
Mary Matalin and James Carville were the opening keynoters at the first general session of the IABC conference and, God love ‘em, they kept their remarks focused squarely on communications. Carville’s comments in particular struck a chord, particularly in light of my earlier posts on the idea that PR could be replaced by blogs.
I wasn’t taking notes, so this isn’t a precise quote, but it…
Posted on June 26, 2005 7:02 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | General
So Steve Rubel gets up at Gnomedex and says something along the lines of, “Blogging is PR with candor.” I wasn’t there, but I’ve read the reports of people who were.
Blogging certain can be PR with candor, although there’s nothing to stop a blogger from being less than candid in his blog. Further, I’ve seen plenty of candid PR that was produced without blogs. The notion…
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