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Feel an empty void and need to fill it? Try public relations. 
Jason Calacanis, the luncheon speaker here today at PR Online Convergence, says he used to have a voice mail that essentially told PR people to screw off. Now he’s speaking at a PR conference. He’s mellowed over the years since I saw him at the last [...]

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Los Angeles — Transparency, authenticity, full disclosure - these are buzz terms we hear every day in online PR (especially here at the PR Online Convergence conference).  There is a utopian trust in the “wisdom of the crowd” and the democratization of information and the self-correcting, self-policing Internet. These are nice concepts that go along with reading Siddhartha [...]

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Is the press release dead? The answer, sadly, is no. Unequivocally, no.
Back in Jan. 31 I blogged Part I about the imminent death of the traditional press release and the advent of the (SMR) social media press release. The post was essentially a re-hash of old news so I was surprised by how many comments [...]

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Brooklyn rules. Yes, we display a slight (read huge) bias toward anything coming out of Brooklyn, but Cruxy is truly reason to celebrate.
Evangelical entrepreneurship is alive and thriving and multiplying in Brooklyn as Cruxy co-founders Nathan Freitas and Jon Oakes (left) talk it over in front of a wall in Williamsburg.
What are they saying?
They are [...]

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Rise and shine. Be sure to check out the Week in Review I pen on Strumpette and then come back here and listen to music (see right column below in expanding “Music” section) and scan the PRBlogNews news below. What fun. You have nothing to do anyway, right. How much PR news can you handle?
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OK, I admit to pangs of competitive jealousy to join the “B” list, but what’s wrong with hanging with the riff-raff on the “C” list? PRBlogNews is in the “middle authority” group, according to Technorati, with 10-99 blogs linking in the last six months, placing us on the cusp of the second quartile of the C [...]

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Loose Twitter twaddle may have gotten ”A list” PR blogger Steve Rubel in hot water but he vows to remain at Edelman. 
Rubel had to publicly apologize yesterday to Jim Louderback, Editor in chief of PC magazine, for twitting that he threw PC magazine in the trash. Louderback wondered aloud in a guest column on Strumpette that perhaps his 11 [...]

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