When staying on message makes you look like a schmuck

Okay, crisis communications 101, or really even media relations 101, the first rules we teach students or clients is….create your key messages and whatever you do stay on message. Unless of course, the act of staying on message makes you look like a schmuck. Case in point, New York congressman Rep. Anthony Weiner, who for [...]

Will digital platforms learn in their old age?

In the past week, I’ve done four speaking engagements, some with my colleagues at THP.  Included in the audiences were students, journalists, PR professionals, small business owners, folks from non-profits, consultants from all walks of life.  A pretty good mix of people. Some of the focus was on journalism and public relations but in all [...]

The story of #bubbleswarm: Badges? We don’t need…

Foursquare, we don’t need no stinkin’ badges.    Actually we do.  Really.  Want them.  But I digress.  The story begins earlier this week on Twitter as Matt Lake of Wine and Beer Westpark (@wbwestpark on Twitter) in Richmond’s fashionable West End, his wife Caroline (who works with me: full disclosure) and others were volleying back and forth [...]

The day TV news died

You can argue that TV news, as folks from my generation knew it, died on Friday.  Not only because Walter Cronkite died, but because the network that his carried on his back for almost two decades decided not to blow up entertainment programing on the east coast and ran reruns instead. CBS execs say that’s [...]

The “blogging nun” and others in Richmond’s social media scene

Bill Lohmann is back where he should be.  Bounced around the Times-Dispatch because of the well-document “churn” at the paper, Bill is back writing the long-form stories that best showcase his reporting and writing talents. Leave it to Bill to find Sister Vicky Ix, or as I like to call her, “the blogging nun,”who showcases [...]

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