Email wars and a bad case of media relations

29Dec07

On his blog, Fleet Street PR, Dave Fleet blogged on December 20 about how not to deal with the media. He featured an email trail between Newfoundland journalist Craig Westcott and Elizabeth Matthews, the Director of Communications for Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams. The back and forth between the director and the [...]

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Tags: media relations, media training, reporters

drinking the koolaid

22Dec07

Lately, I have heard the expression “drinking the koolaid” being said in the same breath as “blogging” or “social media.” In fact, I don’t know if I’ve ever heard this expression being used to describe anything else as much!
The expression started with the tragic cult-mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978. [...]

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Tags: blogging, English expressions, future of PR, reputation management

Let’s add some video, shall we?

21Dec07

This is my attempt at adding a YouTube clip to my blog. Hopefully this will work. I got this from Robert French who was kind enough to add a comment to my inaugral blog posting.
Robert writes that this “strikes a funny cord, since ads are dying in so many ways. ” Agreed, [...]

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Tags: video

My blogging policies

21Dec07

As I mentioned in my last posting, I am developing a policy for my blog. The idea is not to restrict participation in any way. It is really to manage expectations about what turn’er around! PR is about (I’ve changed the blog name to make it shorter and easier to remember). I [...]

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Tags: blogging policy

The world’s newest blog on PR (for the next 2 seconds)

20Dec07

My first blog entry…what to write on this momentous occasion?

I think I’ll start with me. I’m Josh Turner and I’m a PR consultant for Trillium Corporate Communications in Toronto, Canada. After months and months of thinking about blogs, reading a book about blogs (Naked Conversations…a great book, I should [...]

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