It’s great being in a big city where you get a mix of religious activists and anti-religion advocates. A few weeks back, the Chicago Tribune ran a story with the headline: Atheists ads get OK in Chicago which reported on the Indiana Atheists Bus Campaign that was blowing into the Windy City. This group has some…
God Bless the Atheists Read More »
Some time ago back in my wild youth, I found myself getting drunk three nights a week. What was the cause? Too much alcohol. A pretty simple cause and effect equation. Good news. I don’t drink anymore (and if you want to know the story of how that happened, drop me a line at tc@tcpr.net.
Our agency just had its fourth intern finish her program with TC Public Relations. Jessica’s leaving was bittersweet. Bitter because our interns do very important work that helps the account executives get the job done and sweet because we celebrated her time here with an ice cream cake. I remember my first internship. I was
Interns BTI (Before the Internet) Read More »
I’ve been searching for something related to public relations that will transcend time and technology and I’ve FINALLY FOUND IT: lawyers’ opinions. Over the years, there has been a polite conflict between corporate public relations professionals and corporate lawyers. These two friendly adversaries debate whether t0 stay quiet verses almost absolute transparency, which the public
True or False: Corporate Counsel is to Social Media Like Oil is to Water Read More »
I recently heard the term “entrepreneurial journalism,” which is the concept that online writers and reporters get paid based on the number of clicks on their stories. When I was a kid, I remember television and radio shows asking audiences to send in cards and letters for contests and audience feedback. I supposed that if
Demand Your Media …NOW!!! Read More »
With health care reform in shambles, the leader of Iran denying 911 ever happened, and Lady Gaga not in the news in the last five minutes, I decided I needed someone else to give me a chuckle for my blog. So here are a few funny quotes related to PR: “Some are born great, some
A History of PR Laughs Read More »
Around the holidays, I had a great conversation with Kevin O’Keefe who is best known as the brains behind lexblog. When he saw that I quoted him in a previous blog, he reached out to me and we pursued setting up a phone conversation. We did everything right. My blog linked to his website, he
Why So Many Lawyers are Failures Read More »
Is “David” (TC Public Relations) going to slay Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide (“Goliath”)? It really doesn’t matter. We are two different types of public relations agencies that cater to different clients. However, today when I went to Ogilvy’s blog 360 Digital Influence, it had not been updated since December 9, 2009, almost one month since
Ogilvy PR: The Bigger they are the harder their blogs fall Read More »
Disclaimer, putting the words “snakes” and “lawyers” in the same line was not meant to degrade lawyers (ha, ha). Since I’ve worked on public relations campaigns for lawyer for years, I would not want to bite the hand the feeds me. However, the problem is that over those years, I’ve seen lawyers jump on the
Social Media Snakes for Lawyers Read More »
Any legal marketing professional will tell you how they feel the home page artwork for many law firms makes them cringe. That’s because so many use almost identical stock photos of court houses or scales of justice. (What justice, I was not able to participate in the Cash for Clunkers program with my 2003 Toyota
Law Firm Taglines: Tasteful and Tacky Read More »
