Posted on November 11, 2008 8:43 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | PR | Transparency
I have come to the sad conclusion that the people running AIG are idiots. Dolts. Complete and irredeemable morons.
I defended the Southern California retreat for which AIG took so much heat. That event was an incentive for top-performing life insurance salespeople. It was part of the compensation for their contributions and necessary to keep the company’s top performers from defecting to the…
Posted on October 31, 2008 6:10 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | For Immediate Release | Media | PR
Paul Pendergrass, corporate communicator and executive speechwriter, recently joined the New York Times’ DealBook blog to write about PR and communications under the pen name Jack Flack. In this interview, he discusses the role of writing about his craft, the state of PR, and the impact of new media, among a wide range of other topics.
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Posted on October 28, 2008 6:51 pm by Shel Holtz | PR
A lot of smart people make observations about the future of PR in this video, which served as the introduction to the Council of Public Relations Firms (CPRS) Critical Issues Forum, held in New York last Friday. In addition to these smart people (including Pete Blackshaw, Paul Holmes, BL Ochman and others), I’m in there, too. Here’s a wrap-up of the event,…
Posted on October 27, 2008 3:28 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | External | PR
At one of the Fortune 500 companies where I directed corporate communications, many years ago, a reorganization consolidated some of the company’s business units. In a game of executive musical chairs, one high-ranking exec was left without a job.
The press release the company issued used the typical jargon claiming that the poor fellow was leaving the company “to pursue other opportunities.” I suppose that…
Posted on October 20, 2008 7:46 pm by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | PR
In the wake of several high-profile posts suggesting startup CEOs can do their own PR just as effectively as a professional, we’ve put together a panel to discuss just what value startups get from working with agencies. The panel includes (in addition to hosts Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson):
- Rob Lane, CEO, Overlay TV (and several previous startups)
- Mike Manuel, PR practitioner, Voce…
Posted on August 21, 2008 5:24 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | PR
While an army of bloggers have been complaining about PR pitches, Ewan MacLeod has the opposite problem. MacLeod, who writes SMS Text News and blogs at Mobile Industry Review, likes getting pitched. He even reaches out to PR people representing mobile companies in search of news. Amazingly, he’s more likely than not to be told they don’t have anything for him.
MacLeod is…
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