2015-04-28 15:19
Much has happened since we last met, was it in January (that “month of empty pockets,” as Colette calls it).
Last week saw the last snowflakes of the season, so I ordain. (Not th… Read More
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2014-10-18 14:52
Change the business model, change the school.
Our challenge, which we readily accepted, was to change the college’s business model.
Make no small plans, said famed Chicago architect Da… Read More
2014-09-13 00:38
I had to laugh this week when a reporter from a local daily newspaper peevishly Tweeted about a grammatical mistake she discovered in a press release sent her way (not from me, I swear). Rhe… Read More
2014-07-24 19:30
Chris Kluwe and the Vikings, the story continues to evolve. Stay tuned.
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Chris Kluwe was expected to file a lawsuit against the Minnesota Vikings today, but according to th… Read More
2014-07-06 21:56
It’s time to update the world on what’s going on with Macy’s window displays at its big Nicollet Mall store in downtown Minneapolis. It’s the American Icons series, f… Read More
2014-07-06 08:00
July 4 was a fine day for taking in the sights in downtown Minneapolis.
Swollen by recent heavy rains throughout the state, the Mississippi River was really chugging along on July 4. This vi… Read More
2014-07-03 13:43
Is traditional media relations dead? Not by a long shot. People still rely on the traditional news media for news. They may not receive the news in the traditional way, e.g. home-delivered n… Read More
2014-06-24 19:54
On the matter of Twitter marketing: a young guy, self-identified as a high school student, followed me on Twitter. I followed him back. Whereupon he DMed me (thati is,sent me a Direct Messag… Read More
2014-06-12 14:39
[Blogger’s Note: I take a semi-facetious tone in the article, but it’s a dead serious topic for businesses too. You always want to have a strategy in mind when talking with the n… Read More
2014-06-10 21:45
Corporate culture gets the blame for the ignition-switch debacle at General Motors. It’s infuriating to think that people who knew better allowed the problem with the faulty ignition s… Read More
2014-06-10 14:38
(Caution: strongly voiced opinions ahead.)
[Blogger’s note: the idea of being “aggressive” in business seems to have gotten a bad rap of late. From a media relations standp… Read More
2014-05-25 20:52
Which comes first, the story idea or the media contact relationship?
Believe it or not, I’ll take the great story idea first — if I have to choose. So should you.
I’ve work… Read More
2014-05-24 03:09
Time was when magicians were loath to reveal their trade secrets to anyone. To do so would be akin to Coca Cola giving away its secret recipe for its eponymous soft drink. There probably isn… Read More
2014-04-21 13:30
Long overdue, if I do say so myself.
Here’s a biographical sketch of the author of this blog:
My name is Doug Hovelson. I’m based out of Minneapolis, working as an independent pu… Read More
2014-04-18 14:06
Probably no Twin Cities-based company is more closely watched by business locals than Target Corporation. Not that the Twin Cities is a one-horse town, corporately speaking — far from… Read More
2014-04-03 15:21
Reporters even today, in this most post-modern of post-modern worlds to date, prefer to get their pitches from PR people under cover of email. Or, get this, they’ll even take a story i… Read More
2014-03-13 07:28
Public relations was hard enough to define in lay terms in the analog age. Imagine trying to describe to your mother what you did in PR back in the day when the word processor was a ma… Read More
2014-02-06 13:40
Strikes me that one of the hardest things for companies to do is to do social media properly from the inside of the company.
So natural to use the time/digital space to talk about the compan… Read More
2013-12-20 19:33
Traffic lights (Photo credit: Vít ‘tasuki’ Brunner)
A mobile holiday shopper in Los Angeles tweets this morning of driving around in the city for two hours in search… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
..."good media relations people earn their keep - by finding ways to call pitch-saturated reporters' and editors' attention to their clients' good story ideas. (Because a good story is a te… Read More
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