Archive for December, 2007

Friday, December 28th, 2007

recently in the news

I made the Houston Press this week in a story about Food Not Bombs and my employers:
[snip]
Library spokeswoman Sandra Fernandez says the whole thing is a  misunderstanding. A library employee did speak with the group, she says, but only to find out what they were up to.
“Maybe something that [Food Not Bombs] thought was going [...]

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Thursday, December 27th, 2007

a pitch gone bad

From a story in the Wall Street Journal about public relations, I read this example of how a well-intentioned pitch went very very bad:
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Last year, Ms. McKay heard that television newsmagazine “20/20″ wanted to interview female CEOs. She got in touch with the show and in an interview revealed that she sometimes kept her cellphone [...]

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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

What makes a successful Public Relations professional

Found on MyRaganTV.com:

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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

online advertising

I love this “ad”

Found via Erica O’Grady.

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Sunday, December 9th, 2007

recently in the news

This week I made the Houston Chronicle twice as part of my day job.
City official says goal is to open Kendall Library in fall of 2009$9.1 million set aside in District G CIP budget to help fund project– December 6, 2007
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“We are very enthusiastic about the possibilities for the additional space,” said Sandra Fernandez, the [...]

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