Communication has emerged as a necessary object of attention in the 20th century, not because it’s new, but because it’s that portion of the social organism now undergoing elephantiasis. Marshall McLuhan (1969, Counterblast)
Congratulations to: Giovanni Rodriguez, for his promotion as a principal for Eastwick Steve Rubel, for his new job as a Senior Vice President at Edelman … and belated congrats to Jeremy Pepper, for joining Weber Shandwick’s team. Also, congratulations to our fellow PR bloggers who celebrated recently a year or more since they started their [...]
Harold Burson launches a blog on his 85th anniversary, and Al Golin “shares his perspective and wisdom from his first 50 years in the business” in a video podcast (also available on iTunes). We’re living in interesting times :)
Nancy White: [I]t is chic to glorify conversation the way we used to glorify “community.”
As far as I know, this is the first article on the use of weblogs in online public relations published by a peer-reviewed scholarly journal: Organizational Blogs and the Human Voice: Relational Strategies and Relational Outcomes. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(2) (Technorati cosmos | RSS feed) (del.icio.us cosmos | RSS) Tom Kelleher and Barbara M. [...]