As PR pros, is timing on our side during holiday weeks like Thanksgiving and Christmas? The news cycle never stops, and news outlets still need to produce content, regardless of whether it’s a holiday week.
Why am I continuing to pour fire into the PR pros versus journalists/bloggers wound? Because I experienced what it’s like to catch someone in a lie who contacted me with a story idea for my personal blog, Essential Elements.
Choosing to attend a university two hours from where I grew up and studying abroad for a semester in Chile taught me the importance of independence. Once I stepped into the world of a PR professional, I got a true taste of self-sufficiency and how trial-and-error can be more educational than the “inquire before attempt” [...]
This is interesting. The Associated Press is asking bloggers not to re-post their content: An AP attorney filed six Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedown requests this week demanding the removal of blog entries and another for a user comment. So quoting published text, and publishing it in a blog, could be akin to copyright infringement. [...]
