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Friday FAIL – PR Fail and PR Win

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Luke Armour

To pay homage to the twisted twins PR Fail and PR Wins set up by Jonathan Hopkins and Brendan Cooper (a new overseas FH colleague) respectively, I’m turning this week’s Friday Frivolity into Friday FAIL. Actually, it’s also just an excuse to highlight some of the hysterical things that brighten my day from the Fail Blog (Pictures and Videos of Failed moments).

So in honor of PR Fail and PR Win…

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fail owned pwned pictures
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fail owned pwned pictures
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I actually have my own thoughts about PR Fail and PR Win and they boil down to:

  1. I’m tired of PR people getting bashed, but
  2. I understand why some of us deserve it

I know a lot of great PR people who are trying to turn that image around – and I hope I’m one of them – but it’s a big, dumb boat to turn.

Incidentally, here’s a REALLY provocative and interesting post from Sweeney, bashing Michael Arrington bashing PR folk – definitely worth a read. Also, for more information about PR Fail, visit Brendan’s PR Fail commentary and the subsequent conversation he had with Jonathan.

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Filed under: Frivolity, Future of PR, Professional Development, Proud of PR, Public Relations | Tagged: , , , , | 2 Comments »

The Rundown – Live from Kent State Today

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Luke Armour

imageThe Rundown is going on the road today as I head to Kent State for the hands-on PRSA Akron event “You, Too, Social Media Boot Camp and Leadership Summit” where I’ll be teaching a session on podcasting and, of course, BlogTalkRadio.

Should be a great event, the leadership summit includes former U.S. Congressman Dennis Eckart and NEOhio PR legend David Meeker. Others include Mike Connell, CEO of New Media Communications, whose company provided the Internet strategy to the Bush-Cheney campaigns in 2000 and 2004, and Jenny Camper, president of the public affairs firm Lesic & Camper.

Other highlights include PRSA’s John Elsasser, editor in chief of PR Strategist, who will moderate the panel. Steve Shannon of BurrelleLuce will present on “Copyright Compliance in the Digital Age.”

Good boy Bill Sledzik at ToughSledding referred to me and some other locals as “big names in social-media,” which is kind. I’m looking forward to meeting Matt Dickman, director of digital marketing, Fleishman-Hillard Cleveland, who’s blog I read, Dino Baskovic, principal with Vincena, an Internet and social-media consulting firm based in Detroit and my little Twitter pal Kait Swanson. I’m also pleased to be meeting up with Sage Lewis, founder of SageRock.com for our annual run-into-each-other-at-some-event meet up.

Listen to The Rundown on internet talk radio

I’m going to be broadcasting live whenever I can today during the event, so check out The Rundown Live at Kent State to listen in or catch the archives, I won’t be taking calls today, but I’m hoping to get some great interviews.

Filed under: blogging, Podcast, podcasting, Professional Development, Public Relations, Social Media, The Rundown | 2 Comments »

Podcamp Ohio – Just What the Doctor Ordered

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Luke Armour

Podcamp OhioI recently got word – first from Kevin Dugan and then from Angelo Mandato, one of the spearheaders – that there will finally be a Podcamp Ohio. I’m stoked. Rest assured I’ll be there, maybe speaking, but there for sure. Will you?

I’ve yet to get involved in the planning (bad, Luke, bad!), but Angelo has been heading up the charge to organize PodCamp Ohio and doing a fine job. Over the past month or so, they’ve got a location and launched a Podcamp Ohio web site.

PodCamp Ohio will be on Saturday, June 28, 2008 from 9am to 5pm at the ITT Technical Institute in Hilliard (just west of Columbus), Ohio. The organizing committee is using all the available tools, except one, I don’t see BlogTalkRadio on the list…hmm. If you’re interested, you can stay up to date with Podcamp Ohio with:

Don’t forget to pick up your logos for your own site!

If you think you might be there, drop me an email or leave me a comment. Could this be the end of my Meet Up Envy?

Filed under: Admin Notes, Podcast, podcasting, Professional Development, Social Media, Suggested PR Links | Tagged: , , | 4 Comments »

Live Forward Podcast 12/15

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Luke Armour

I’ll be hosting Forward Podcast 37 “What Are You Doing to Address Globalization?” over at BlogTalkRadio on Saturday. We put out podcasts on the 1st and 15th so this month we’re doing a live show about globalization.

Show goes live at 7 p.m. GMT / 2 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Pacific on the Forward Podcast Channel. Since it’s live, we’ll be taking your calls at US +1 (646) 716-9941.

Who: Richard Bailey, Robert French, Paull Young, Luke Armour and YOU.
What: Forward Podcast 37 Live
When: Saturday, December 15th 7 p.m. GMT / 2 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Pacific
Where: Forward Podcast channel on BlogTalkRadio

Tentative topics of discussion:

  • Learning of languages
  • Work experience overseas and in minority communities
  • Issues like trade, aid, labor, climate change and religious fundamentalism
  • What are you reading and watching?
  • Whatever’s on YOUR mind

Join us live or catch the archive on the Forward Podcast Channel archive or through the Forward Podcast RSS feed.

Listen to the archive from BlogTalkRadio: 

Filed under: forward blog, Future of PR, Podcast, Professional Development, Public Relations, student development | Tagged: , , , , | Leave a comment »

Stay on top of UGA Connect

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Luke Armour

UGA’s Grady College “CONNECT” PR and social media conference is this weekend. I would love to have been there, but just couldn’t make it.

UGAConnect “CONNECT” PR and social media conference

When: 19-20 October

Where: Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication –
University of Georgia

This conference is intended to educate public relations professionals and educators on social media and is organized by the great Karen Russell.

Just a few of the luminaries at this event are Kevin Dugan, of Strategic PR and the Bad Pitch Blog, the keynote speaker, Josh Hallet, Katie Paine, Josh Bernhardt and master of the PR blogosphere Constantin Basturea.

Good pal and Yin to my podcasting Yang, Paull Young will be presenting a case study on the Forward Blog as a demonstration of social media helping steer PR into social media. He’ll also be yapping about Second Life and podcasting. Please view the agenda.

Like me and can’t make it? Stay on top of it with these helpful links:

UGA Blog

UGA Connect Twitter feed

UGA Flickr stream

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