Donald Trump grew up on the rough streets of Chicago. His father left home when he was only six years old, leaving his mother to raise Donald and his eight brothers and sisters. His mother worked two jobs every day to support the family, and she taught him the work ethic that has been central […]
Read more →America died on Nov. 8, 2016. In electing the nation’s first sociopathic game show host as president of the most important and powerful nation on Earth, voters demonstrated they no longer ascribe to the principles and values that have made America a beacon of democracy. Like so many, I was shocked by the election’s outcome, […]
Read more →It has been a horrendous presidential campaign, the most horrific of my lifetime. I am appalled and saddened that a thoughtless, narcissistic clown like Donald Trump is a candidate for the most powerful position on Earth. His candidacy is an indictment of the political process today, the Republican Party and the vacuity of some of […]
Read more →(I was honored to be part of a panel on “Shoestring Budgets That Deliver Phenomenal PR Results” on April 29 at PRSA Georgia’s annual professional development conference. Fortunately, I had two outstanding, energetic and highly entertaining professionals on the panel with me: Manu Muraro, marketing director at King of Pops, and Elyse Hammett, vice president […]
Read more →(Here is an abridged version of a speech I delivered at the annual conference of the Counselors to Higher Education Section of the Public Relations Society of America on April 14, 2016 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans.) Back when our founding fathers, those seemingly omniscient wealthy white guys who articulated the principles […]
Read more →Haven’t watched the Super Bowl in years. Too much hype prior to the game. No rooting interest in the two teams. Interminable game with far too many long commercial breaks. An over-produced, comical halftime show. For some reason I turned it on this year. I found the game strangely compelling. As for the rest of […]
Read more →I was honored to receive an invitation from the Richmond, Va., chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) to deliver a speech on the relationship between public relations and marketing. The invitation stemmed from my blog on this topic that first appeared here, then was picked up by PRSA and mounted on the […]
Read more →Promoting PR’s Value in Colleges and Universities (Abridged and adapted from a speech made on March 14, 2012 at the College and University Public Relations Association of Pennsylvania annual conference at the Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pa.) I’ve been asked to talk about how we public relations professionals navigate through these troubling times in American […]
Read more →Almost everything I know about design and the management of creative people and processes I learned from Dave Holston. He and I first teamed up at the University of Texas at Austin back in the early 2000s. He was part of the Development Division there when I showed up, but I knew as soon as […]
Read more →I have long been troubled by the misuse of the term “marketing” in higher education and its seeming predominance over public relations in the industry’s lexicon. Some colleagues have told me repeatedly to shut up and move on. It’s just a problem of semantics, they say. Properly chastened, I have gone dark on this topic […]
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