Thought Leadership Archive

Prediction for December 2012

January 18th, 2012

For our friends in the PR industry… you know how December reliably yields “Top 10 PR Stories/Blunders/Hype of 20XX” features?  Let’s make a bold (haha) prediction: The first list item in …

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$7.2 Million Could Buy Awesome Crisis PR

January 17th, 2012

The controversy may be local to Washington, DC, but its PR lessons are certainly universal.  The University of Maryland recently announced construction of a new school president’s house, and adjoining …

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3 Simple Ways to Make Your Content Marketing Work

November 7th, 2011

Editor’s note: We are once again honored to have a guest post from Mr. Dan Bischoff (his bio is at the end of this post).  Thank you, Dan! In online …

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PR and the Buffett Rule, Part I

September 21st, 2011

Our last blog post discussed the decidedly poor website brand President Obama’s 2012 campaign created to combat political attacks.  Since then, Obama announced his latest push to reduce the deficit, …

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Good PR Can Help Prevent a Lawsuit

September 1st, 2011

Ah, good old PR… whipping boy and enfant terrible all in one.  Our industry was recently ranked tenth in terms of being least respected.  Of course, the preferred spin is …

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The Fractal Theory of Crisis Management and Public Relations

March 25th, 2011

Besides being fun for hippies to stare at, fractals offer enormous intuitive and guidance value.  Definitely one of the cooler mathematical models, fractals predict patterns in nature.  Fractal theory has …

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Praecere in the News

March 22nd, 2011

Our article on “Five Types of PR Agencies to Avoid” was syndicated by PR Daily, and also added as a LinkedIn “Top Headline” on PR topics: http://prdaily.com/Main/Articles/7430.aspx http://linkd.in/ibXOxY Our work …

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Which Is More “Dumb” – the Regulation, or the Effort to Repeal It?

January 25th, 2011

As promised in our last post, we now turn our PR analysis on President Obama’s recent declaration to dump “dumb” regulations from our federal codes.  Such calls to cut cumbersome …

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My choice, My message, My PR

January 10th, 2011

Just how much can a re-branding go to improving public perception?  Get your notebook out as we’re going to school… An issue really heating up in Congress is the debate …

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Your Crisis Is My Crisis Too: The Tale of Brands and Microfinance

January 5th, 2011

A big part of PR is brand and association.  When we say “computer companies” you might say Apple or Dell… we say “Wall Street” you say Goldman Sachs…. you get …

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