
Trouble at Twilight? (When Good PR Intentions Aren't Enough)
Two good ideas can't always be combined. That's certainly the case with Stephenie Meyer's new novella. The popular Twilight series author's new work isn't selling as well as expected.

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Two good ideas can't always be combined. That's certainly the case with Stephenie Meyer's new novella. The popular Twilight series author's new work isn't selling as well as expected.

Vocus has released a new and improved version of its social media monitoring software, the Summer '10 Edition. The new application focuses on monitoring and analyzing the massive amounts of online information spread across blogs, forums, Twitter, LinkedIn and other online communities, identify and help engage key influencers.

The American media shuns the idea that American foreign policy, including armed conflict, is motivated by economic forces. One Pravda reporter suggests the only way to erase US debt is to pump up the military machine again. Maybe it is time we looked outside US borders for fresh perspectives?

Anne Womack-Kolton, once press secretary to the former vice-president Dick Cheney, a former APCO Worldwide Vice President (her last day with the company being May 21 this year) and previously director at the Brunswick Group, was hired in house by BP to help bolster its public relations effort in the US, as the company's head of U.S. media relations.

A rather bold marketing and PR move comes from France, where the fast food chain giant is running a gay-friendly advertisement.

McDonald's recalls 12 million promotional Shrek glasses. The CPSC and McDonald's announced a general recall of promotional glasses for the latest Shrek film. The glasses were apparently tainted with the heavy metal cadmium, ingestion of which can cause severe long term health effects.

A new study from Satmetrix, released today, shows that companies are wasting billions on attracting new customers through advertising whilst delivering a poor customer experience that has forced over 10 million consumers to switch suppliers in the last six months alone.

Coca Cola has revealed its new social media model. It is called the 4P model, namely reviewing, responding, recording and redirecting. There's nothing quite revolutionary behind the fancy naming, but it is a tested, well documented, experiment and success backed model to help them accomplish marketing and sales goals.

Are you communicating with your audience? If you aren't, then your public relations campaign is finished before it starts. You can't sell to your prospective clients if you aren't communicating with them.

If you look inside your Pampers diaper pail, and a stink wafts into your face, it may be Procter & Gamble PR poop. Either Procter & Gamble is trying to turn the Internet into a soap opera, or their PR sniffed too many chemicals.
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