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Originally uploaded by boxed13. I will be writing an occasional feature called Your Take, which will be about issues of importance to the public relations industry.

I don’t profess to know all of the answers and I hope that you will speak out on these issues here or in your own blog if you have one, Thus the title “Your Take.”

Let me know if you see anything out there in the industry that you feel read more...

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Originally uploaded by raindog61. In reading Steve Rubel’s post yesterday about the Magic T of Marketing, I was struck, that while there is some good thinking there (sans the terrible cat linguist example :-), I think that there is a major flaw in the idea. The Magic T should be "The Magic Anchor."

My thinking is in line with read more...

Mike Souder, a Information Technology professional and blogger, asked me to weigh in on the question, “Does IT Need a PR Rep?”

In another post, Nicolas Carr laments:

A few days ago, I met a well-respected CIO at an event, and the first thing she told me when we started talking about IT was, "I don't really see myself as being an IT person."
The best response I have is to tell a story.

I once worked in an office with an IT manager that was a crack on the read more...

Based on Robert Scoble’s recent post on PR Done Badly, and the comment thread that followed, Jeremy Wagstaff, technology columnist for WSJ.com and the BBC, writes a great post about relationships between public relations, bloggers and journalists.

He gives some tips to bloggers about the dangers of sharing personal information and to people pitching bloggers. He also makes this read more...

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Originally uploaded by julian~. Unless you have a job title of development, fundraising for an organization or cause can be a real pain. However, public relations professionals are often asked to do it for special projects, even if that project is the baby shower of a co-worker.

Web 2.0 has the answer to this problem. I got an e-mail yesterday for a new service that launched today called read more...