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The Wall Street Journal had an article by Rachel Emma Silverman called, “Facebook and Twitter Postings Cost CFO His Job” that is a warning to us all. Gene Morphis lost his good job because of tweets and posts on Facebook that got him in trouble. One post on Facebook, which you can still see on…

It’s incredible that despite the fact that people have so many ways to get inside information, journalists can’t get much access to the government when they want to do interviews with government employees. I thought the government promised us that they were going be more transparent, but it doesn’t look that way, at least according

I was reading Bruce Carton’s post at Legalblogwatch called “Early Settlers in the Blawgosphere Begin to Turn 10 YearsOld” and he was talking about legal blogs that have been around for a while, some for more than 10 years. My first reaction was wondering how they wrote so consistently for so long. Then his post

I saw an interesting article in Time magazine that asked, “Is becoming a lawyer a bad investment?” , and it shows that what I thought was a great, stable career isn’t really that way anymore. The article talks about how attorney jobs are drying up due to the down economy, but the number of people

I’m originally from Philadelphia, so when I see the city get some media attention, I pay attention too. However, it’s too bad that a big story from there is about a councilman who wasted thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on his social media campaign. I found out about what he did in the article,

As someone who works in public relations, I love a good soundbite, and I’m quick to notice them when they appear in the media. One person I wouldn’t expect a good soundbite from is the mother of a hacker from Chicago who was part of the Anonymous group that hacked into company and government websites.  

The Wall Street Journal had an article about how overweight doctors tend not to tell their obese patients to lose weight. There was no reason discovered, but the article says “it’s possible that subconsciously, obese physicians may look at a patient and think ‘they look like me, but I’m healthy’ and focus on more acute

Not sure if this fits my style of PR for Laughs, unless you find it to be shameless self-promotion. This Friday, January 20, I will talk about Marketing for Today’s Niche & Small Firms at the Chicago Bar Association.     Information About the Event Date: Friday, January 20  Time: 2 pm to 5 pm Location: The