Stress. What does stress mean to you? For me, it can be positive or negative. Stress can be the exciting feeling before a big presentation, an unexpected adventure or even a first date. Negative stress, the one most of us are more familiar with, tends to do with finances, our careers, relationships and numerous other [...]
Saturday’s Denver Post (the least read Post of the week) ran a 3-inch story in the business section that I almost missed. The headline read “Post’s Parent Company Files Restructuring Deal.” The story went on to say that Affiliated Media, the parent of Media News Group, which is the parent of the Denver Post, was [...]
I spent two fattening days at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco last week. When I wasn’t helping Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy sample their popular Colorado goat cheeses, I walked the floor, tasting farmstead and artisanal cheeses, chocolates, teas, coffees, charcuterie, jams, olives, yogurts, pates and other delicacies. In a one-hour spin through the [...]
Remember when Johnson & Johnson was such a revered company after they removed Tylenol from all drug and grocery shelves because someone had tampered with it, putting cyanide in some bottles? That was 1982. Today, Johnson & Johnson is accused of knowingly using contaminated containers for Tylenol, Rolaids and several other over-the-counter drugs it manufactures. [...]
For all of us in public relations, we should have a high Klout score, right? (Don’t know what your Klout score is? Visit klout.com to enter your Twitter handle and see your score.) But, is a score really what matters when gauging the value of social media? Or, is it the raw numbers, like how [...]
I’ve always said hope is not a strategy, but perhaps it can be. As we begin another new decade, our mission should be to restore optimism. The public relations profession is generally made up of optimists. We believe that improving an organization’s relationships leads to what so many corporations and non-profits need today – a [...]