What Makes a Good Press Release Today?

Search around the web on Google News or elsewhere for the day’s round of press releases and you’re likely to find a vast majority still being written and distributed in the pseudo-news format that has been prevalent for decades. I’m not exactly sure why this model gained supremacy, because it has never been a particularly [...]

Bloggers Use Filtering to Fight Back Against PR Spam

In brief:

Email filtering is now starting to be used by bloggers to block and delete PR spam before it even reaches the intended recipient

There really haven’t been many consequences to spamming journalists with unwanted PR pitches — until now.
In what is sure to be the beginning of a trend, a blogger has posted the [...]

Lessons Learned in Corporate Blogging

In brief:

Lessons learned in corporate blogging from LinkedIn’s corporate blogger, who also links to a post by a blogger at EMC Corp. about their lessons learned

Face it — if you don’t already have a corporate blogging program, you’re probably going to have one in the next couple of years. It’s a little like the early [...]

CEOs Have a Real Credibility Problem

Following up on the BNET1 post, CEO Candor on Steep Decline:
The post reports on the decline in trustworthiness of CEOs as measured by their perceived candor in the letters to shareholders that accompany annual reports. The study, by Rittenhouse Rankings, says that more and more CEOs are making “confusing and misleading statements” or creating a [...]

Learn About Web 2.0 Through Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek.com caused quite a stir a few weeks ago when she conducted an on-stage interview of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW and asked a lot of off-the-wall questions that the tech-heavy audience thought was disrespectful and irrelevant. They were posting their thoughts from the auditorium on Twitter and the story started [...]

Fighting Crime By Using a Fake Blog

Here’s a good one: Coach bags doesn’t like that its trademarked products are so often counterfeited and sold as real. So as part of its anti-counterfeiting initiative, it teams up with a college PR class to create a fake blog about a college student who loses her genuine Coach bag, posts signs on campus offering [...]

Creating a Temporary News Web Site for Major Events

My colleague Sean Silverthorne over at BNET’s Harvard Business School blog tips me off to the temporary news web site created for the announcement of the proposed Delta-Northwest merger. His post is entitled “The Press Release of the Future” and indeed, this is a very creative, smart and modern way to use the Internet to [...]

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