Archive for the ‘writing’ Category
Friday, April 18th, 2008
I was walking back to the office past the New York Library on one of New York's first lovely April days when I spotted this on the sidewalk footpath.
Love it! I think I'll print this photo and sit it on my desk. A mission statement of sorts for the new ...
Posted in Blogging, New Practitioners, Online PR, Students, word of mouth, writing | 8 Comments »
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
This weekend’s UGA Connect Conference was truly a great time. The students did a superb job covering the event so check out the content at the conference blog and Twitter and all the photos on Flickr.
As always, I loved having the opportunity to speak. I was presenting a case study ...
Posted in Blogging, Event Management, Marketing, Media Ethics, Media Relations, Networking, New Practitioners, Online PR, Podcasting, Second Life, Students, Twitter, Workplace Issues, word of mouth, writing | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
For the past 32 years Lake Superior State University has published a "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness". This year's list has just been published and includes a word that is very close to my heart - awesome.
From the media release:
AWESOME -- ...
Posted in Humour, Students, writing | 12 Comments »
Monday, November 13th, 2006
I recently picked up a great little book -Â Words of a Feather by Murray Suid. It's an entertaining read, it's amazing the way our language twists and turns over time.
It's interesting stuff, so I'll share a couple of examples from the book here.
Regular readers will be aware of my hatred ...
Posted in Blogging, Humour, writing | 2 Comments »
Monday, November 6th, 2006
Some quick links to three cool tools I’ve recently come across – check ‘em out:
The Levelator
If you’re a podcaster you will LOVE this program. I first heard about it on FIR (I think maybe Dan York brought it up?) and Donna Papacosta has been touting it recently.
I downloaded it and tried it ...
Posted in Australian Media, Online PR, Podcasting, writing | 3 Comments »
Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Alice Marshall points me to some Cover Letters From Hell received by a Chicago Advertising firm.
Young PR's - have a look to see what not to do, and also to make you feel a bit better about your efforts to grab attention with a page of wanky, self-focused prose.
There are some crackers ...
Posted in Humour, Networking, New Practitioners, Students, Workplace Issues, writing | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
This post isn't strictly on-topic, but I'm currently enveloped in saturation Steve Irwin coverage and it fits in with the passion for language that all young PR's should be embracing.
Today one of my best mates, a copywriter in Melbourne, sent me an email:
"Read your post on Steve Irwin's passing. Today I've been ...
Posted in Australian Media, writing | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
I'm sure you're all aware of the debate about the rise of Internet English and the effect it's having on grammar.
Personally, while text message grammar irritates me, I'm not worried about it destroying grammar. Kids these days are communicating using the written word in fun new ways - that's gotta ...
Posted in Australian Media, writing | 11 Comments »
Saturday, August 19th, 2006
A Sydney plastic surgeon has been awarded compensation after a web designer buggered up his website with poor grammar and inappropriate pictures of naked people.
From today's SMH:
The Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal heard that Ms Fitzgerald posted images of naked women on Dr De Torres's site and the text she ...
Posted in Australian Media, Humour, Online PR, writing | No Comments »
Thursday, July 27th, 2006
A confession: I'm dumb. And I'm proud of it.
Here are a couple of quotes from blogs I've read recently that explain my dumb pride:
In science, feeling confused is essential to progress. An unwillingness to feel lost, in fact, can stop creativity dead in its tracks. A mathematician once told me ...
Posted in Blogging, New Practitioners, Students, writing | 2 Comments »
