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1) Syria’s Assad family turns to West for glossy PR (The New York Times) — With the help of PR firm Brown Lloyd James, Syrian President Basher al-Assad and his family have sought over [...]

Much has been written about JP Morgan’s bad bet on credit default swaps,  but PR professionals can take a great lesson from a minor paragraph I stumbled upon in The Wall Street Journal last [...]

The Wall Street Journal published an excellent article (linked here)  about how 3 different companies – Southwest Airlines, Whole Foods, and Best Buy – use Twitter to engage their [...]

1) Charities failing at social media (Wall Street Journal) — It’s often assumed that charities are big users of social media and doing well at it.  But, according to one tech blogger, [...]

When David Rubenstein speaks, people listen.  As Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, he has built a small private equity firm based in Washington, D.C., into a global success [...]

Advertisers are expected to invest $31 billion in online advertising this year, a 10% increase over earlier predictions. Research firm eMarketer says 2011 will mark the highest level of online ad [...]

Ben Bernanke’s press conference Wednesday has been dubbed a precedent-breaking  foray into public relations for the historically insulated Federal Reserve.  Sounds momentous.  It’s [...]

1) Crisis lessons (ReputationXchange) — Toyota’s Jim Wiseman breaks down lessons he learned about communicating during Toyota’s recall crisis. 2) The power of words in [...]