This article is well worth the read, particularly as it mentions how PR Agencies must look beyond traditional media relations and more toward engagement models. While I don’t agree that the tactic of reaching out to newspapers, magazines and television stations is at all dead (even though giving them press releases is), this article clearly and accurately discusses how a…
A good article with some good insight, but I’m concerned that the overall debate misses the point. New technologies will come and go, being replaced by more innovative and relevant ways for organizations to communicate with specific audiences. For advertising and PR firms to remain effective and show their value, they should adopt performance-based strategies. For it’s not just the…
I was speaking today at the Poway, Calif., Chamber of Commerce’s Lunch and Learn event today about how small business owners and entrepreneurs can do PR on their own, particularly in social media. During that talk I made a brief mention how companies needed to be their own broadcasters, in part because traditional media outlets were shrinking substantially if not…
This is a very compelling article. I welcome your thoughts. Decency Is the New Advertising By Jeff Jarvis I’m well aware that I have been painting myself in a corner – or rather, I fear that media and journalism are: I’ve been arguing that charging for content online, news content, is futile and that print as a vehicle for advertising…