Archive | May, 2008

Annenberg Releases Fifth Annual PR Study

By on May 29, 2008 in Public Relations

The Strategic Public Relations Center at USC Annenberg released its fifth study of practices in the PR industry late last week.  Each year, Annenberg surveys a broad sample of practitioners across organizations of varying sizes.  Their study is one of the more notable to benchmark the state of Public Relations as an industry. I have [...]

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Visibility of Academic Research Papers

By on May 18, 2008 in Online Distribution

I recall a discussion some months back with a friend of mine who is currently working on his Doctorate in International Relations. He was lamenting the fact that he would be spending countless hours working on his thesis and in all likelihood it would probably only be read by a small handful of people. Fast-forward [...]

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Everyone Makes Mistakes

By on May 12, 2008 in Uncategorized

I have been using Yahoo! mail for about 8 years or so and was a little surprised to see an error message when I attempted to log-in this afternoon. Personally, I like the informal tone of the message and I have absolutely no doubt that the alarms are literally “blaring in the basement” right now.  [...]

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SHIFT Communications and Radian6′s Press Release on PRWeb

By on May 2, 2008 in Social Media

I recently attended the Society for New Communications Research 2008 New Communications Forum. Both Todd Defren and Radian6 played major roles at the event – Todd as a speaker and Radian6 as a sponsor. I have a great deal of respect for both SHIFT and Radian6, and think they are both doing some great things [...]

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