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If there’s any validity to this competition, that would be the headline at the end. Alas, that’s not going to happen, so we will announce the real winner now.
All other PR bloggers are nibbling at the edges, Richard Edelman is square in the center, week after week, post after post. He deserves recognition for the most important, insightful, [...]

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What is going on with the shellacking of The Flack by Beyond the Hype in the PR Week blog competition? The lopsided results point to several problems with this competition that the PR industry, in its slap-happy embrace of anything that creates PR for PR, is not willing to acknowledge.
There is no criteria for this [...]

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Combat PR
I should have known better than to go mano o mano with a Marine. Frank X. Shaw at Glass House, President of Waggener Edstrom and former Marine public affairs officer, creamed PRBlogNews in the first round of PRWeek blog competition last week, 58% - 42%. Late Thursday afternoon we were knotted at 50/50. An [...]

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” …. this is feeling a lot like a presidential election where it doesn’t matter who you vote for because the results are pre-programmed.” That’s the comment, among many, that sent us reaching out to the lawyers. 
For two days now friends, clients, and the media have complained to us about the difficulty of voting for [...]

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The PRWeek blog competition has been a revealing exercise in the PR business examining itself. As if we needed further proof - we are a stilted profession with no sense of humor and no imagination. Basically, that is why, no matter how hard we try, we are unable to grab a measurable piece of the advertising/marketing [...]

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Forget global warming, genocide, recession, floods and fires. The battle of the century is taking place now and PRBlogNews is trailing in the early returns. We need your vote to overcome the early lead of the Glass House blog, authored by Frank X. Smith, President of Waggener Edstrom.
Unfortunately, there has been some confusion about how to [...]

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Loren Feldman Goes Too Far
“How do you know you’ve gone too far until you go there?” - anon  |  This quote should be on the 1938Media web site. As we know, Loren Feldman, the ganza macher of 1938Media, likes to push the edges. Technigga, his digital trilogy to racial stereotypes and the vacuity of social media, was perhaps his [...]

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