Cyberbullying. There’s a new headline about it just about every day. It’s a constant problem online, and a challenge for parents who want their kids to be able to surf safely. But, it turns out, it’s an issue for adults too.
Public relations can be a harsh judge, jury, and, if your gaffe is bad enough, executioner. You can work a lifetime to build something, and then lose it in a moment. Just ask Pamela Taylor, the now “former” director of the Clay County Development Corporation.
Western media loves to report on the supposed horror stories of manufacturing and corporate environment in Asia. Whenever American workers complain, you can bet there will be someone pointing to an article that describes incredible work weeks in Japan or so-called suicide nets in China. Now, more often than not,
CEO and Founder of CheapOair – Sam S. Jain Sam S. Jain, CEO and founder of CheapOair and its various predecessors, has been working in the travel industry since the 1990s. He started working in a travel agency just a few years after arriving in New York from India when
Alyssa Schimel Stays With Jimmy Kimmel Live Through New Job at Kovert Creative Kovert Creative was established a year ago by Joseph Assad and Lewis Kay in a joint effort with WME-IMG. Alyssa Schimel, who has been working as the publicist for Jimmy Kimmel Live, recently hitched her star to
It wasn’t that long ago that cable brands like MTV and Comedy Central ruled the airwaves with a certain demographic. The channels were by-words in teen and young adult culture, both reflecting and defining trends and defining cool and funny. Things have changed. YouTube and streaming media have captured the
This advice is not new: When it comes to a PR crisis, own up to the mistake quickly. Don’t deflect blame, don’t try to sweep it under the rug; admit the problem, do what you can to fix it and let people know what you’re doing along those lines, and
It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that with the coming change of power in DC, there are likely to be some job shifts happening. With many of the PR and communications jobs currently filled by people who’ve gained a vast amount of experience in one of the
Whether the PR efforts are all done in-house, or there’s a PR firm doing it, these efforts can pay off big time, but only if you manage to connect the good word to your customer base. Without that, new people may hear about you, the CEO, or the brand, but
Nothing kills more businesses than the budget… or, more specifically, refusing to budget properly. Finances can bring you down quick, or they can set in like cancer and let you linger. In the end, it’s not how slow or how fast they kill you, it’s what you do to stay
