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How to beat the recession
Today the Dow closed below 7,000 for the first time since 1997 as the recession really starts to bite. The impact on our industry over the last six months has been huge. Many good firms…
Blog stress
Just wanted to reassure all those of you who have read today’s New York Times piece, that my prolific blogging is in no way impacting my health. Running a PR firm’s a killer though. Technorati…
Ten ways to reduce stress
PR is inherently stressful. It’s highly task- and deadline-oriented, fast-paced, collaborative and rapidly-evolving. Any situation where a group of people need to cooperate with several other groups around detailed information within tight deadlines is a…
The fiction of work/life balance
I’m not sure who first coined the phrase ‘work/life balance’ but it’s an unhelpful misnomer. Work is an integral part of your life. If you don’t see your work that way, you should find a…
How to manage email
Email has increasingly become the workhorse technology of PR. It makes a good servant but a poor master. Once you start to get above a certain level, which for me is about 200-250, productivity suffers….
That whole podcasting thing
I’m trying it. Kinda. Here’s the pilot. (Thanks Ian for doing this on the spur of the moment). Am sure it can be made better. I joked on 360 that it was sponsored by the…
Morganutiae
You can now find all my updates to Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Del.icio.us and PodBean on my Tumblelog – Morganutiae. If you’re unfamiliar with Tumblr it takes feeds from a number of social media sites…
Channel hopping
We got a glimpse of how television could be last night. Detective series, CSI: NY broadcast an edition where the criminal was tracked in 3D virtual world, Second Life. About 30% of the program was…
PRSA T3 Conference in NYC
I’m moderating a panel about PR and virtual worlds this afternoon in New York at the PRSA’s T3 Conference. I’ll be joined by Giff Constable, general manager of The Electric Sheep Company and Adam Pasick,…