Last week, Forrester senior analyst Jeremiah Owyang, a prolific and astute observer of web strategies (and someone whom I hold in high esteem), posted a link to a new, sobering USC Annenberg study on the state of the PR agency business. (It dovetailed well with the Council of PR Firms' own look at t...

Fame is a drug. Once attained, it's hard to live without. In recent years, many of the famous are famous for simply being famous. Think Paris, Kardashian or Lindsay's girlfriend. But true talent applied over time, or even a single act of heroic humanity, has the capacity to drive and sustain fame fo...

Not that Jossip is the arbiter of what's real nowadays -- in spite of it being a snarkily fun read -- but I couldn't help but notice it's antagonistic (if not anachronistic) view of the PR profession. In a post titled "J-School to Public Relations: Selling Out or Buying In?," the Gawker/Defamer wann...

What's a socially networked person to do? All these outlets to share one's thoughts, ideas and cool links! It's exasperating. Well, first he or she should get a handle on each channel's distinctive DNA and utility. The inimitable David Pogue, who's been tooling on Twitter these last few weeks, ponde...

I constantly implore my boys to take their online profiles very seriously. A month doesn't pass before I ask them to expunge from their Facebook pages any obscene wall posts and photos in which their "friends" tagged them in some state of unseemly debauchery, e.g., beer pong games or dubious attire....

The news emanating from Israel's former and once-again terrorist-controlled territory may have fallen from the front pages of the world media (barring today's Times piece), but a struggle to prevail in the court of public opinion remains very much alive. The latest chapter revolves around the distri...

I am one who subscribes to Mike Moran's sage advice to "Do It Wrong Quickly" in which the best-selling author, distinguished engineer, and digital marketing strategist encourages web marketers to experiment until they get it right. After all, the cost to re-jigger an ineffective web or social media ...

Those I follow on Twitter are consumed today with the maneuverings from Macworld 2009 (absent a hormone-imbalanced Mr. Jobs). As Mark Collier wrote: "Twitter is constipated, can I assume that MacWorld is underway?" Dave Winer lamented: " Oh great. Garageband. I don't use that either." Ryan Block hit...

High profile talking head biz/financial reporter Charlie Gasparino goes out on the limb this first full day back of the new year. The headline and lead of his post today on The Daily Beast: "Is Jamie Dimon the Next to Fall? JP Morgan’s CEO successfully ruled his company to become the new king of W...

So once again, the world's all a flitter over a prominent journalist jumping ship to get into the PR game. After all, they reason, who knows more about dealing with the news media than an actual member of the fourth estate, from a TV network no less? Right? Well...not necessarily. Frankly, I found a...