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Declared dead earlier this summer, the Social Media Club is back. And this time it’s personal!
Okay, for our mainstream readers, the Social Media Club was founded a little over a year ago “for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and for promoting media literacy.” According to their literature, “This is the [...]

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It was an intense high chatter PR week that began with Osama bin Looney lobbing verbal and visual bombs from a cave in Pakistan, and ending with George Bush, the Great Bumbler, desperately seeking understanding and legitimacy in a world disinclined to bestow either. Bush’s spin of “building on success” comes three years after “Mission [...]

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The black arts infiltrated Strumpette last week with a fascinating posting on the “Dark Side of PR 2.0” – nefarious activity that uses Web 2.0 tools to warp the minds of the masses. The day that appeared the mainstream media (MSM) reported that the CIA is now using Facebook in its operations. Later in the [...]

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A big moment occurred on Strumpette this week with the either/or piece by Marcia Silverman, CEO of Ogilvy Worldwide. Special thanks to Ms. Silverman for violating the unofficial PR CEO August hiatus on conversations about the conversation and finding the voice to speak. Ms. Silverman made a definitively ambiguous statement — a title like “Digital [...]

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Social Media & The Bad Guys
“What happens if some bad, bad, motherf**kers want to do this (social media)? The government? The Rand Corporation? Terrorists?” Loren Feldman says in the 8/8/07 Strumpette TOTAL RANT: Outrage for the Flies. I have to say, first thing in the morning, before the first cup of coffee, Loren’s dark unshaven [...]

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Psychedelic PR is making a comeback.
Founded in 1968 in San Francisco Biggles & Joy was a pioneer in psychedelic public relations, the practice of publicity by osmosis and transference of cosmic thoughts through mind altering experience. The work of Biggles & Joy has permeated the work of dozens of breakthrough highly-recognizable PR campaigns in the past [...]

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It was breathtaking to see how fast the aging but still nimble Rupert the Wily stalked and mercilessly killed his prey, Dow Jones, with only a bare hint of blood on his paws. Rupert entered the lair with a dripping hunk of fresh meat ($5 billion), divided and conquered the dysfunctional Bancroft’s and this week [...]

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