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Those are the words of Jodi Kantor (left) of The New York Times.  She recalls few times when she dealt with a PR person who really made a difference in a story, someone who was able to ‘anticipate’ what the Arts & Leisure section, which she used to edit, might need. It’s a digitial world [...]

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I have been to several conferences and meetings lately where somebody is stumbling around trying to explain RSS to the uninitiated. Really Simple Syndication is powering all the information bouncing around the web, says the RSS cult, yet like a cultish secret nobody seems able to explain it in a really simple way. Well, leave [...]

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One of the greatest public relations skills is being able to discern ‘the wind.’ You may think you have a greatest argument in the world – you are so absolutely, totally, completely right  – and lose if it is the wrong argument. The ‘wind,’ blowing against you, will make you eat your words. Michael Kempner, [...]

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Definite drama brewing as competing media mogul families duke it out with a $5 billion pot in the middle and a jewel brand as the prize. It’s not the Montagues and Capulets, although there is no love lost between the two families and the battle can be Shakespearian in proportion. That’s what we have this week with [...]

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“I am committed to customer service for the rest of my life. Death is my exit strategy,” said Craig Newmark, Craig’s List founder and chief conscience, at the New York Social Media Club ‘un-meeting’ last night at Fleishman Hillard in the old Daily News Building on 42nd street.
Newmark said he spends most of his time on customer [...]

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L.A. is really nowhere when it comes to PR new media and Seattle isn’t even on the map. Coming back from those two places to Lindsay Lohan screaming from the headlines of the newspapers on the streets of the upper west side you realize that New York has an identity in this new communication renaissance: [...]

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If Grandma Esther were alive she would say that Strumpette was practically kvelling in the post yesterday about the new MySpace-like community for PR & communicators called MyRagan. “So vus is all the fuss with this social media,” Grandma Esther might say. “In my day we talked to each other. What happened with that?”
I don’t know, grandma. Now we [...]

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