Public Relations

I’m an Auburn Alumnus, and if you haven’t heard, one of our rival fans from the University of Alabama allegedly poisoned one of our most cherished landmarks, the oak trees at Toomer’s Corner. I call this suspect a fan loosely, and only because that’s how it’s being reported. No doubt if you follow college football, you� [...]

As much as I would like to, it would be a waste of time to simply gush about IBM and Jeopardy’s ingenious public relations achievement, Watson. Instead, I want to call attention to another computer test that was highlighted in this month’s Atlantic magazine.
Brian Christian’s “Mind vs. Machine” is a great read, detailing his par [...]

This is how bad it is out there.
Apparently, a very established company (who will go unnamed), either wants Mark Zuckerberg to run their social media shop, or they just don’t get social media. I’m guessing the latter.
Earlier today, I was forwarded a job application, asking if I knew anyone that might be interested in running social [...]

During the Super Bowl on Sunday, one of my friends tweeted this story about the roughly 400 Super Bowl ticketholders who were unable to gain access to their seats due to unfinished stadium construction. While it’s not Groupon bad PR, it’s bad all the same.
This was my quick, tweeted public relations advice to them after reading that s [...]

Florida Governor Rick Scott didn’t ask for it, but after last week’s “Twitter Town Hall” and this blog post, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker, the ultimate tweeting politician, is offering a few words of advice to the new Republican Governor about his nascent use of social media.
In case you missed it, Rick Scott took to Twitt [...]

Last week, Florida Governor Rick Scott sat down to answer 19 letters from Floridians, all in fewer than 200 words. Impressive. Well, his press team called it a “Twitter Town Hall,” but in reality it was just an attempt to diffuse the fallout from this unprecedented article citing the closed-door relationship between Rick Scott and the [...]

From 7:00-7:30 PM tonight, Florida Governor Rick Scott held a “twitter town hall.” He answered nineteen out of about five hundred tweets.
Here is what the rest of twitter wanted him to talk about:

Today the Florida Capitol Press Corps sent a message loud and clear to Governor Rick Scott and his press shop — let us in. As we’ve reported, even the good news from the Governor’s office has been grossly mishandled, but this AP article sheds new light on the frustration Florida’s front line public servants are experiencing in trying to [...]

The same day Florida Governor Rick Scott was embracing social media, or as reporter Gary Fineout tweeted, “bypassing the mainstream media,” by announcing new staff members on his Facebook account, Scott also released a “weekly radio address.”
Former Governor Charlie Crist utilized the now defunct clickcaster to occasionally blast [...]

Chris Elliot is a freelance journalist who runs a traveling consumer advocate blog, the very definition of a niche blogging community. A couple of days ago, one of his faithful readers sent him an email about a heartwarming moment of compassion by Southwest Airlines. Her grandson was about to be removed from life support following the all [...]