Yep. This sums it up.
As usual, I’m paying attention to the camera. Read Jessica’s celeb-spotting blog, CHI-lebrity, on ChicagoNow.
Trying to convince editors to just run today’s paper again tomorrow. #GroundhogDay
Lauran B.
Choose. Between 36 book covers.
Tell me what you like and don’t like about them. Top three? Bottom three.
Last night, around the time I stopped having fun was when giving thinking on an author’s marketing decisions and then defending it against the input of other people who are not in the publicity or publishing business.
While I think layman’s opinions and outside thinking are so very important, it grinds me when my downtime turns into doing work. It’s something I can accept when the request is in-bound as an e-mail. Not when it’s in-person.
I don’t think work-life balance really exists, although downtime has got to be downtime or else you’re always going to feel like you’re under fire.
The way to manage these kinds of situations, I think, is to make sure clients know you’re always available, and that office hours are office hours. Work that has to be done after hours is called an emergency and it will show up on their monthly invoice in the form of an emergency.
Crisis PR is costly because bad behavior is, too. So is letting people step over your boundaries.
You will be unusually successful in business. Yes, you.
I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama, quite honestly, I am. Democrats eat their own. Democrats find singular issues and go, ‘Well, I didn’t get everything I wanted.’ I’m a firm believer in sticking by and sticking up for the people whom you’ve elected. If he was a Republican running, because Republicans are better at this, they’d be selling him as the guy who stopped 400,000 jobs a month from leaving the country. They’d be selling him as the guy who saved the auto-industry. If they had the beliefs, they’d be selling him as the guy who got rid of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ who got Osama bin Laden. You could be selling this as a very successful three years.
George Clooney. This is excellent PR. If you don’t tell people what to think, then they’ll believe what someone else has to say, and I’ve always felt it’s very important to put out the best possible version of yourself. But whoever it is, they’re not who they say they are. They’re a rockstar at what they do, this is why people believe in them, and that’s what defines the perception. Public figures are, to different degrees, entertainment properties. So it’s important to stand for something an audience wishes for, or believes in, and to rally others to be a part of that.
This is the largesse of “Yes We Can,” and brilliant undoing of a promise that wasn’t kept. Not because the job wasn’t done. But because people didn’t know it. Because certain persons played their part, and only when it suited them. There’s no belief without manifest destiny, and vice versa. This might explain why some disillusioned Democrats feel like they were part of a fraud on the scale of a long-term relationship. It leaves open the possibility that Obama’s legacy may be more as a player than a president. After all, hearts were broken.
For anyone who’s in the public, and I say this knowing I’ve had trouble remembering to do this in my own life, you have to declare intent when it comes to what you want your reputation to be. It should be specific. You should do it with empathy, and practice doing that not from time to time, but in all instances it’s appropriate. This is what people who believe in themselves do.
The worst case scenario is being bullied by what other people think. If you’re doing it right, you should never have to declare war. It’s not a difference of perspective, or who’s telling the story. It’s how you do it, so that you can be you in such a way that makes it difficult for other people to push you around.
My own case study as a publicist; it’s the difference between being called a professional liar, and a person who makes sure the truth is told. Is it manipulation or am I uncovering what’s real and making it valuable to others?
Conflicts I’ve waged.
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Ad Age: Robin Steinberg (exec VP, publishing investment, Mediavest) is… not afraid to laugh at herself and use her “ruppet,” which is a puppet through which she sometimes yells at people.
More scenes from the B-roll shoot. Download the NAVIGON (now Garmin) MobileNavigator app if you haven’t done it already.
Shooting B-roll. The camera is set so we can show what the NAVIGON navigation software on the iPhone is doing. Coming soon to CNN Airport Network.
The Press Keeps Coming... Quoted by Inc. magazine! And it's their 'Most Popular' article right now. Score.
In the world of tech, Internet rumors often turn into cold hard facts—sometimes overnight. With Apple, a company that never pre-announces products, gossip about the iPhone 5 coming this month (or next) have persisted for some time. So what is a business to do?
Philip Chang, a partner at the PR firm Carbon in Chicago, had an interesting point to make about why his company plans to jump on the iPhone 5 bandwagon. The main draw has to do with the apps. Businesses are constantly evolving in how they communicate with new apps like LiquidSpace and GroupMe, which often appear first on the iPhone. Chang says, the iPhone 5 will just encourage new app development, and not being able to use these apps will cause problems in communicate between his team and with their customers.
“Nothing else on the market enables its users to share and create content as effectively or easily as the iPhone,” he says. “It gets the most attention from developers when it comes to rolling out a new communications tool.”
Chang is also interested in the faster processing, and the better camera capability (especially for recording high-def video clips).
