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Cartoonist captures SXSW’s odd artistic, corporate mix

March 15th, 2010 at 16:02 » Comments Off

A presentation by corporate product manager-turned-cartoonist Tom Fishburne captured the complex vibe of this week’s South by Southwest Interactive conference. Angry at the way “blood-sucking corporations” systematically dull the sharpest ideas, ...more »

You say iteration, I say social optimization

February 28th, 2010 at 15:13 » Comments Off

During the dress rehearsal for a meeting with Facebook executives, one of my colleagues took some ribbing for her use of iteration when talking about the reason a Fortune 100 ...more »

Getting comfortable being uncomfortable

January 21st, 2010 at 15:00 » Comments Off

Most academic institutions are highly structured organizations, not unlike large corporations and the military. Students must abide by a code of conduct, faculty members have rigid tenure requirements, and campus security ...more »

When a tab isn’t a Tab

January 14th, 2010 at 00:34 » Comments (1)

Every industry has its own vocabulary. "ANFO" was lingo I learned in my first PR agency job, writing a monthly column called "Shot Rock" for Pit & Quarry magazine.  My account ...more »

Jeremiah Owyang: Public relations will be impacted by ’social CRM’ in 2010

December 22nd, 2009 at 17:54 » Comments Off

There's something special about a guy who isn't a rock star yet has three times the Twitter followers of Bob Dylan.  He's not a deep-pocketed electronics retailer, yet his social ...more »

Conference overload in fragmented PR market

November 7th, 2009 at 17:35 » Comments Off

My former boss had a funny line to describe how often the owner of a mid-sized New York investor relations agency showed up at free media breakfasts:  "He'd show up ...more »

Guest post: Baruch College’s ‘Dynamics of PR’ panel

October 19th, 2009 at 11:04 » Comments Off

By Alice Fong, Business Editor, The Ticker From left, Jeff Gluck, Peter Himler, Don Middleberg, Bill Southard (photo by Denis Gostev) Peter Himler speaks at Baruch College. (photo ...more »

A media debate of Titanic proportions

October 15th, 2009 at 15:08 » Comments Off

The media execs attending lunch at the Paley Center for Media Tuesday seemed relieved that they could take a break from watching their P&L's get jackhammered by scrappy new entrants ...more »

Digital marketing isn’t stale, but it’s mainly pale and male

October 10th, 2009 at 15:55 » Comments (3)

I don't expect diversity in the New York supermarket business.  Rightly or wrongly, I have long associated chains like D'Agostino and Gristede's as places managed by brawny Italian-American men. In the ...more »

How I spent my summer vacation

September 30th, 2009 at 17:30 » Comments (3)

The whole concept of a sabbatical is foreign to those of us who haven’t worked in academia. For someone who bought his first police scanner at age 14 and who ...more »
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