Yesterday, there was intense news coverage about the death of the telegram.

But Western Union didn’t send out a press release to announce the death of the telegram, it simply posted the news on its website.

Last year, 20,000 telegrams were sent at about $10 a message. The first telegram was sent on April 9, 1839 and the read more...

I was poking around in the Yahoo sandbox after Steve Ruble made this post about Yahoo accepting trackbacks in their Sandbox section. While there I saw something equally exciting, Yahoo news also includes blogs in their news searches. A Beta box pops up on the right with the latest blog news and it seems a few will also come up in the regular view as well (I saw a Gawker entry on one of my searches). Tags: Yahoo|Search|read more...

I used to be a part of the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) as an associate member. As a part of this group, I saw first-hand the piles of gifts that reporters are given in the course of their daily work. The PR folk in the cities where we held our convention would literally roll out the red carpet. It was very interesting, I got to see some back areas of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, hear about how malls manipulate your senses to read more...

After the Sago Mine incident, I think that it has become clear how important basic facts are in a crisis situation where we might serve as the main public communicator.

Once again, I was reminded last night how critical it is to check and double-check your facts.

The local San Antonio Red Cross Community Affairs Manager Trish Box and I were teaching a Public Affairs 1 class to a class of about 20 volunteers interested in helping with the public affairs function at the local chapter here in San Antonio.

I got involved with the Red Cross on 9-11 when I was working in read more...

What is your guess for the overall total number of feeds that will be in the PR Blogs List at the end of 2006? Let's have a friendly guessing contest. In my post about the explosive growth of PR Blogs, I asked Constantin Basturea to update us on the number of "blogs" since the 330 number he gave as of December 31, 2005. Here was his response in comments: To respond to your question: as of today (Jan. 31, 2006), read more...