It is high time Republicans did what is right rather worry about the PR battle.
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We reminisced about the PR biz back in the day when the choice of channels and methods for gaining mindshare seemed so finite (and manageable).
Think about all the PR that Yahoo releases on its Investor Relations page and now think how much of that actually mattered enough to be in the financial statements.
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That means we all have to start thinking like PR reps about how we appear online.
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With this announcement comes about eight paragraphs of PR back slapping on what a great idea this is and how Pizza Hut and Xbox are so privileged and honored to be working together on something like this.
For big companies, raising money matters less than gaining information about customers or even good PR.
Of course, PR peeps are not about to engage Mr. Ballmer or Rep. Cantor to advocate on their behalf.
"Ivanishvili has an army of lobbyists who essentially do black PR and spread misinformation about the elections, " says Zoe Reyners, a Paris-based political consultant employed by the Georgian government.
At the end of the day, maybe statistically you'll be safer not wearing the signature white headphones, but we're more likely to encourage you to to use something else just to keep the PR vultures from beaming about other peoples' gadgety misfortune.
But what was not talked about were specific release times and platforms, and that led gaming outlets to go on a PR hunt to find out any detail they could about either one.
Thought leadership is not PR, it is all about leading the sector in a new direction.
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His words clearly resonated with more than a few in the audience of PR pros when he reminisced about all those pressers that managed to draw just three journalists.
One of their columnists wrote a piece about the increasingly cozy relationship between publisher PR and the journalists meant to cover their products, actually naming a few he believed to be the worst offenders.
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Remember earlier this year that Facebook was caught using a PR firm to plant unflattering stories about Google.
Kate Spall, a cancer drugs campaigner, said she believed Ms Hart's stand about the drugs in January was a "PR stunt".
At least one former member of the Facebook PR team is not very happy about it, and let Losse know via a private Facebook message.
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Lurking beneath the shiny surface of emerging technology, a big disruption will impact the way media executives, journalists, PR pros and brand managers think about their work.
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"Whether the site's users care about privacy or not, Facebook needs to manage PR and avoid scaring advertisers, " McClure says.
Ivan Oransky at Embargo Watch does a great job finding a story that was under all our noses: a PR person who sends out embargoed commentaries about embargoed articles.
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Skype's PR peeps are blasting out press releases about how SkypeOut (which lets you use Skype's VoIP software to make cheap calls to the regular phone lines) has finally reached one million users, but we're way more interested in the more stealthy news that they're testing a new beta which supports SkypeIn, which lets people with regular phone lines call you.
This may just be corporate PR speak, aimed at assuaging investors concerned about Apple's plummeting stock price.
One national newspaper estimated about 60% of its stories had been handled by PR at one point or another.
The ones who are at every PR launch event, the ones who tweet about all the freebies they get.
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When pressed for details about how this "document DRM" actually works, the PR rep we spoke with had zero information -- we asked whether a Mac version of the BBeB-reading software would be released but no word on that either.
Game journalists, developers, and PR people from all over the world gather to talk about and, ultimately, sell games.
Instead he has appeared as a fawning PR man, apparently willing to do or say just about anything to get elected.
I'm not sure I ever thought of stoves coming in a shade other than grey or white, but full marks to the PR for ingenuity and for compelling me to write about a color I have had a burgeoning appreciation for since becoming a refugee from black some three years ago.
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How about that for making a statement on the increasing blurriness between the worlds of PR, marketing, advertising, and CSR?
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