It seems the election season brings a bounty of examples in public relations, both what to do and sometimes more importantly, what not to do. This evening marked the second night in a row that I heard about Hillary Clinton’s Bosnia fib. You can watch a YouTube video of it here. Clinton has mentioned on [...]

Since millions of people are watching American Idol each week and since a certain incident happened last week that could have used a good public relations professional, I thought I would focus more attention- albeit, from a different standpoint- on the issue that had Idol fans buzzing.  For a couple of weeks, American Idol contestant [...]

The Associated Press reported today that Samantha Power resigned on Friday as Barack Obama’s advisor after being quoted as calling Hillary Clinton a “monster.” This situation brings to light a very important topic in public relations- off-the-record comments. Power’s comment was made during an interview with The Scotsman: “She is a monster, too- that is off [...]

Did anybody read this morning’s Ledger article about Jeb Bush and the CSX project? I bet Chuck did, CSX fan that he is. I got a kick out of it, simply because of my past experience having worked at Southeastern. I can imagine there were at least two people instrumental in the planning of the [...]

I happened upon a great post recently, called Wi-Fi Etiquette for Telecommuters by Vivian at Mama Need Java. As someone who does a bit of telecommuting, I know too well the closeness of the walls after too many hours spent home alone in my office. Vivian offers some great advice on how to remain a [...]

CSX is losing the public relations battle in Central Florida these days. The railroad has become fodder for many a local blogger, such as Lakeland Local, Empirical Polk and the Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce blog , which all have devoted space to the topic. Then there are the articles in area newspapers about CSX. I’ve remained on [...]