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Stowe Boyd posted an item responding to the citation of a Telecom Express survey cited by the BBC, but says, “I will continue to contend that more American are finding information on the Internet more credible than conventional media sources. It looks like TV and print journalism are falling dramatically in their credibility.”

Stowe may want to revisit that conclusion.

The Telecom Express item…

I had removed this post initially because Dominic Jones—whom I still think is one of the more knowledgeable IR people I’ve ever read—told me I was making a fool of myself by posting it. I didn’t want this blog to be the source of inaccurate information.

From the standpoint of the current regulation, though, Dominic (in a comment to this post) wrote, “For what…

While I’ve been defending the idea of the social media press release, Jeremy Pepper reminds us that the traditional press release still has legs.

I knew this, but Jeremy’s point hadn’t occurred to me. On his always thought-provoking blog, Jeremy writes:

What people don’t get—especially non-PR people—is that, oh, the majority of PR is done at the local level, where people don’t care about blogs or RSS. The local level…

Edelman has released the results of its eight annual Trust Barometer. The announcement was made using a traditional news release and a social media release.

The social media release is not in and of itself a part of the conversation, but rather is fodder for the conversation packaged in a way that is readily usable by those so engaged. Because…

Frankly, I thought the “press-release-is-dead” meme was over a year or so ago after the delightful Amy Gahran and I engaged in some friendly disagreement about it. What goes around, I suppose, comes around.

Stowe Boyd and I will have to agree to disagree. And he’s welcome to think I don’t “get it” (a phrase, by the way, I despise as much as Stowe dislikes “audience” and…

Warning! Long post follows.

For me, one of the great frustrations of working in the PR profession is the number of people who think they understand it without the benefit of any background in it. Public relations is a field in which scholars devote their lives to researching models and theories. You can earn a doctorate in PR. The field of…