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January 15, 2009
Tips for Organizing Your Public Relations Strategy Online
As a reporter, I had a recurring nightmare that I was on deadline and working on a huge story, frantically trying to find the public relations person for the company I was writing about. I looked high and low on the company’s web site and could only locate the company’s main office number. I dug up old press releases online, but there was no public relations contact listed. This nightmare has been reality more than once for me. The internet is a standard business tool now, but many public relations departments, large and small, still ignore one of its main purposes: the distribution of information. These are some simple tips that can help companies not only utilize the web effectively, but also help garner some easy publicity. (Read more…)
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May 15, 2001
Your 2008 Public Relations Calendar
As I’ve done each year for the past several years, I am closing out the current year by publishing a “print and save” public relations calendar for the upcoming year. In this issue you’ll find calendar listings for holidays and observances, major political and sporting events, as well as a list of anniversaries being celebrated — or simply remembered — in 2008. (Read more…)