Tribune Co. gets ink for funny press releases
Media giant breaks the press release mold with humor.
Media giant breaks the press release mold with humor.
An anonymous blogger allegedly employed by the newspaper rips execs.
For an internal communicator, writing a blog for employees would seem the most natural thing in the world; it’s also the hardest.
How to get press coverage and stretch your budget.
Oh, Apple, where is your sense of humor? Talk show host Ellen Degeneres aired a fake iPhone commercial that pokes fun at the device’s often finicky touch screen. Steve Jobs wasn’t amused, and Ellen wound up apologizing on her show. Apple really needs to lighten up. Engadget has the video .
At Empower Public Relations in Chicago, lunch is ordered in to the office every day; the coffee is Starbucks-quality; there’s a corner where employees can work off their frustrations by hitting a pillow with a bat; and a rule makes it clear that BlackBerrys get turned off at 5 p.m., according to the Chicago Sun-Times ’ Paige Wiser. Oh yeah, and crying is encouraged. “But what really sets Chicago’s Empower apart from other offices? It is a no-gossip zone,” Wiser said. Empower CEO S…
“Embarrassed corporate PR Guy” apologizes for a Circuit City executive’s missive to ban MAD Magazine’s parody of the retailer from stores.
Mayo Clinic’s internal publication is packed with readable chunks of content, catchy headlines and visuals similar to a consumer magazine.
Internal communicators and PR pros can learn a lot from MyRagan’s experience as a professional networking site.
Do you reread your work or are you too embarrassed to admire your own prose?
Here’s a few helpful ideas and tips to turn your employee newsletter into a must-read.
Media contacts say, “save the gifts, send good pitches”—but that doesn’t mean you should stop sending them anyway
The astounding inanity of this CEO’s quoted words leads Bill Sweetland to formulate the Golden Rule for association and corporate editors.
Editors of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Messenger fill pages with articles and photos about workers doing their jobs.