Dear CEO – some friendly advice

Last fall, my good friend Gini Dietrich asked me and 30 other senior PR and marketing folks to contribute to a project she was working on. She was compiling a collection of letters to an unnamed CEO offering our honest perspective and advice. The result is the...

My PR agency highlight of the year

Every year around this time, I write about the Counselors Academy Spring Conference – a gathering of some of the smartest PR agency leaders you’ll ever meet. It’s happening May 13 to 15 in Lake Las Vegas (where gamblers go to drown their sorrows :))....

Living a life online

Sometimes it’s exhausting. Checking into this venue or that. Scanning Twitter. Facing up to Facebook. Uploading a lifestream… And of course we need to be mindful of the people sitting right next to us IRL, who may or may not share our social...

Agency lessons I learned from Mad Men, part two

In just over three months, I’ve watched 52 episodes of the best series on TV (IMHO): Mad Men – a show that makes me long for the ’60s and the heady days of the ad biz. (Now, I’m holding my breath till season five.) Earlier this year, I wrote...

PR… meet PRketing

I was at a meeting with a group of agencies not too long ago – PR, ad, digital and media buying. We were working together on a campaign that included various components from each of our firms. When the plan was presented, I was struck by the similarity of...