Category Archives: PR

Five for Friday – 9.18

Welcome to the second installment of Five for Friday, hopefully you enjoy these stories that you may have missed. Relief for Twitter headaches – Interesting piece from the Journal on Monday. As the wave of social media continues to grow, especially with Twitter it makes it increasingly difficult to manage and there is a need…

Trust Agents a valuable resource for college students

While my Internet has been down this week (patiently waiting for Comcast as I type) some of the thunder of this post has been stolen by none other than the President, but it’s worth posting none the less. Over the weekend, I finished reading Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. Granted the book…

Questions to ask yourself when jumping into social media

What is social media? What can it do for me? How can I become an active participant? All three are probably questions that you should know the answer to if you are looking to enter the Social Sphere, either as an individual to comment and network or as a company looking to engage with your…

Book Review: Sticks & Stones

About a week ago, my boss gave me a copy of Larry Weber‘s Sticks & Stones: How Digital Business Reutations are Created over Time and Lost in a Click. The book was a gift from his wife who works for Weber’s PR agency Racepoint. At first I wondered if the book was going to be…

The Michael Vick Experience

For those watching the dreadful, meaningless, first preseason game of the season yesterday, on top of watching the starters play a handful of snaps to a full quarter, we were also greeted with some interesting news. No, Paula was not coming back to American Idol, but rather Michael Vick was returning to the NFL, to…

My 15 minutes of fame

Back in 2003 while interning with the Baltimore Ravens, MTV followed around my friend Joseph Evans and I around for the day. It was a whole Day-In-The-Life kind of thing. It’s kind of corny, but hey it is what it is. Enjoy.

The pitch that would not be

As a PR professional one of the more frustrating things is having a great pitch that goes nowhere. Whether it’s timing, no one cares or our ego’s are bigger than they should be it simply just happens.  Here’s my most recent one that was centered around jobs for those who were placed out by the…