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Oh no! Our friends at PR Moment have put together a jargon buster that includes the 12 most-hated phrases used in the public relations profession. I’m embarrassed to admit to using 11 of the 12. A prize goes out to the first one who can name the only term from the list I’ve never been guilty of using (leave your guess in the comments).
Boiler plate
Blue sky thinking
Cross pollination/fertilisation
Digital native/immigrant
Grey beard
Heads up
Holding the ring
Moving forward
Quick and dirty
Reach out
Seed, share or amplify
Touch base
Click here to find out what these terms mean (and …
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“Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the world
Santa was thinking about flack boys and girls.
Releases were sent to BizWire with great careIn hope that a journalist might be aware; The AE’s were nestled all snug in their cubes, The VPs were thinking the AE’s were rubes.
Clients and bosses, they’d all headed home, And lo, just a very few flacks toiled alone.”
Thanks to Young PR Pros, and Greg Brook (via The Bad Pitch Blog) for giving me a real chuckle with this Christmas story.
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Richard Bailey reveals what life is really like for a PR blogger.
Somebody help me please!
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There is something new on the market for the men among us who usually carry out their virtual day working in their jammies.
The next time you’ve got to staff a video conference call, there is no need to worry about getting a shirt pressed, finding a tie nor wrestling a business jacket out of the wardrobe. Now all you have to do is put on your bib.
The BusinessBib lets you look like you’ve got the right business togs on…it looks like a full suit from the chest up! Just set your …
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Lots of blogs are focusing on conferences and events this week, but I found some posts that were pretty interesting. Here’s what I enjoyed this week.
1. Is it time to eat some fruit?
2. How to get 53% more readers. Well the headline hooked me! A good reminder of copywriting basics from Brian Clark.3. Should PRs ghost corporate blogs? Of course! You know what they say about ‘if you want something done right’?
4. How readable is your blog? Scott runs several PR-type blogs on the Gunning-Fog readability test. I used to …
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I was surfing around yesterday and came across one of those online personality tests, What famous leader are you? You get a choice of four questionnaires, depending on the number of questions you are prepared to answer. So I did the shortest one and was pretty alarmed to find out I am SADDAM!
“People who don’t like you better like chemical weapons. You are Saddam Hussien. You are the toughest on the block. You are not afraid of confrontation.”
There must be some mistake I thought to myself. So I did the …
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Yuk Yuk Yuk….did you hear the one about the BBC research assistant that put a cabbie on air instead of the ‘subject expert’? Apparently the cab driver was waiting in the reception to pick the expert up after his interview. Somehow the driver ended up on air giving his opinion on music downloading… Hat tip to Drew B for pointing this one out.
Update…I just found a clip on youtube.
