It’s not quite a Rush Limbaugh-esque on-air remark. But Winston-Salem (NC) Journal reporter Travis Fain’s inopportune comment to a school board member elicited an apology that contains a communications lesson of the first order.
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PR for PR
The old platitude within the Public Relations industry is that PR people are good at communicating for everyone except themselves.
No surprise, then, that the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) – the nation’s largest PR organization – last fall spearheaded a campaign to redefine the industry in collaboration with a dozen other organizations.
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Lessons from Chardon High School
Geauga County, Ohio Sheriff Daniel McLelland – in whose county the fatal Chardon High School shooting occurred Monday – believes proactive crisis response training prevented the incident from causing more panic in the community than it already had:
“Several years ago, the Chardon school district and local law enforcement began conducting drills, training, practice, if you would, for an event just like occurred today.
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Hard to find the old fashioned police blotter items in your local newspaper these days. They’ve gone the way of the Private Eye’s fedora. Jim Romanesko, news media watchdog, says that there are so few beat reporters left, there’s no one left to go down to the roundhouse any more to pick up the noteworthy cop beat tidbits.
A Tale of Two Universities
In the news this week is another campus crisis. (click here) Fifteen students including three current football players at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth were arrested and charged with drug trafficking as a result of a police sting operation. Read more
The Komen firestorm, and flip-flop
The sudden reversal by the Susan G. Komen For The Cure foundation will likely not end the controversy over its temporary withdrawal of funding for mammograms from Planned Parenthood. Without taking a position on the decision itself, and on the reversal, as communications consultants we at CommCore have several observations:
· Why did they make the original announcement in the midst of a bitterly contested Presidential and Congressional election year in which Culture War issues such as abortion – which Planned Parenthood provides on-demand – are among the most divisive?
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Faux Pas in Quebec: National/Provincial Pride and Brand Loyalty
When the fabled Montreal Canadiens NHL hockey team hired Randy Cunneyworth as their interim head coach in December, they knocked over a hornet’s nest of controversy so fierce that General Manager Pierre Gauthier – himself French Canadian – had to issue a rare public apology.
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Top 10 Social Media Gurus of 2011
The Pulse’s Top 10 Social Media Influencers of 2011 illustrates the variety and importance of social media engagement. Included are professional bloggers, corporate communicators, marketers, consultants, authors, and ordinary citizens. Some favor Facebook, others Twitter and Google+.
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Top 10 Social media Blunders: Viral Ooops Won’t Cut It
Social media is now such a standard communications and PR tool that lists such as Advertising Age’s top-10 social media blunders are annual postings. The snafus listed in this 2011 edition are instantly recognizable in fewer words than it takes to fill a 140-character Twitter feed.
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