Ana - you have missed a major group or two (or three or four) of people who consider themselves "ethnic" and expect to be treated (and marketed to) as such, or...
I've been getting to do a number of project this week on swine flu topics. Some are straighter than others. I wrote the news release on Wednesday night,...
Congratulations, Paul. As many of us learn (and too many of us never learn), there is seldom a better way of generating news than finding a way of linking...
Ned, You missed my second email on the topic listing the missing ethnic groups categorized for both marketing and PR purposes. I have spoken and provided...
Ana Without intending to, you hit on a professional PR issue that I have given a great deal of thought to since the late '60s, back when I was active in the ...
Ned, Yikes - very lengthy email outlining your experience. Frankly, as I stated before, this is not a competition nor is it related to this group (as I know...
Ana Adroit side-stepping of the key issue I raised in changing the thread title, and effective self-promotion, too. Congratulations on that. However, I'm not...
Group members, First let me apologize for one more email from me related to this topic. I was actually planning on deleting this last email and responding to...
Hi Ana and Ned -- At first, I wondered whether we (the list members) might be better served if your dialog were taken private. However, having read through the...
Just one thought that perhaps have been missed. Where all men think alike, no one thinks. I have read all the pros and cons and obviously there are arguments...
2nd try... The primary scaremongers were Hannity and Glenn Beck, who were calling for closing the border to protect us from swine flu. (There were others...
Bit of a reach, Kezia. Calling for closing the border to control the spread of a flu that was established to have originated in the country on the other side...
Ana, I'm surprised at the controversy your position has caused. Your simple statement: "...having 'ethnic clients' is very different than reaching ethnic...
A new survey of 1,214 American homeowners and investors conducted by Siegel+Gale between December 29, 2008 and January 5, 2009, released today, shows an...
As a follow-on, it might be interesting and educational for us to learn how Ana addresses the concept of communicating with the client as the customer in order...
I'm awed by the terms contained in radio commercials that attempt to sell technology services in the DC area via station WTOP-FM. Many of these ads sound like...
Professionally and personally, how do you feel about websites that auto-start an audio track when you click onto the site? Assuming that they are well...
Ned - I don't like autoplay audio in general. I find it very presumptuous to simply assume that I want to hear a clip - but there are other issues that make it...
Professionally and personally, how do you feel about websites that auto-start an audio track when you click onto the site? Assuming that they are well...
Hi Rob -- What chorus is that? Perhance are you a barbershopper? Stephen STEPHEN RAFE Rapport Communications http://www.starfire-rapport.com ... From: Rob...
Ned - There is only one circumstance in which I ever thought a website's auto-audio was clever: a voice-over actor's site. Personally, I'm usually listening to...
Stephen - Nope, not barbershop - although I was a member of the Men's Glee Club during my college years at Michigan. These days, I sing with The City Choir of...
I'm amazed that with the abundance of Blackberries and other smart phones, companies continue to use word-phone numbers like 1-800-532-LIST (a number I'm...
I think they're guessing that most of their incoming calls will come from traditional phones, since toll-free numbers aren't toll free on cell phones -- at...
The MTV Movie Awards, is May 31st at Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles....... There is an afterparty I'm part of at Cabana Club in LA, and we still have a few...
Post- Memorial Day Event/Mixer on Tuesday, May 26 @ John Bull English Pub, West Palm Beach, 5:30 – 7: p.m.... It's also National Hamburger Month! SFPRN...
I've long enjoyed working with students and interns, helping and mentoring them and bringing them up to speed in PR - I guess that's why I also liked teaching...
Good advice, good outcome. She "got it" and replied with class, and I tried to match that class. Scroll down . Ned Barnett, APR Marketing/PR Fellow, American...