For some reason, the Skeptics Society sent me a copy of their brochure “Top 10 Myths About Evolution (And How We Know it Really Happened).” As a matter of full disclosure, I believe there is one God that created everything. However, I do recommend that you look at the brochure for yourself because I’ll give…
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Some people think the first page of a Google search has the power of God. They hope and pray their business name appears on the first page and rejoice when it does because thinking thier business is set for life. Reputation management seems to boil down to the top of a web page. When I did
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I’ve been thinking about why a law firm decides to spend money on public relations. If it’s not to further promote their reputation and trusted attorneys, then that money is wasted. If you do a Google search for “lawyer” and “reputation” one of the top paid links is for Lawyerratingz,which has the headline: Lawyers to
This week The Jerusalem Post had a story with the title: The real problem behind Israel’s dismal PR. I found the first paragraph amusing: Israel’s public image today is dismal. As Elie Wiesel once joked, “Jews excel in just about every profession except public relations, but this should not surprise us: When God wanted to
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Sometimes the best blog posts are inspired by other bloggers. In this case, Robert J. Ambrogi’s blog LawSites provided me with and idea that I have never looked into: what am I worth to a law firm? Here’s something from his blog that I’d like to respond to: The gist of my post is to ask whether
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One of my favorite public relations professionals is Joan Stewart, who has a business called The Publicity Hound that helps other public relations professionals do better work. Her blog has this post: How to work with a PR firm: 15 do’s and 8 don’ts, and I’d like to add look at a few of the “don’ts” more closely:
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All aboard the Jelly Belly Express with Tom and Elizabeth Recently, I was on vacation with my family in Racine, Wisconsin. The great thing about small towns near Chicago is that they can be as interesting as Disney World for our 22-month-old daughter. On the way home we stopped at Jelly Belly for
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What makes legal news can run from logical to lunacy. I can understand why members of the original funk band War are suing Pepsi for more than $10 million, saying Pepsi did not negotiate with them to use their song “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” in a new commercial. This case might be an infringement of someone’s
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It seems that location-based social media services, like Foursquare.com, are beginning to scare people. Sites like IcanstalkU.com say that whenever people post a photo of their lunch or their kids, also included are details about their exact location. We’ve certainly come a long way from stalking as I used to do it. OK, wait I’m not that creepy, let me
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This week, I had two meetings at a legal trade magazine where the reporter interviewed my clients from different law firms for two profile stories. I sat in the room quietly, listening as my clients shared their experiences as attorneys. I enjoy sitting in on these meetings because I often learn something new about my clients.
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