tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-86681733676504843 2012-02-22T17:17:26-06:00 TypePad CrisisAnalysishttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e2016762be23b9970b 2012-02-22T17:17:26-06:00 2012-02-22T19:30:30-06:00

If we approach Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Feb. 14 speech at the Goldman Sachs Technology Conference as sociodrama (which it clearly is), the first question has to be: Why Goldman Sachs? Cook’s address was his first appearance in the wake of the New York Times story that exposed Apple’s exploitation...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e2016762bd5356970b 2012-02-21T18:12:00-06:00 2012-02-21T18:12:00-06:00

The PR profession is voting through Feb. 26 on a long overdue redefinition of public relations. There are three choices on the ballot: Public relations is the management function of researching, communicating and collaborating with publics to build mutually beneficial relationships. Public relations is a strategic communication process that builds...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e20167628a0e4e970b 2012-02-17T22:37:12-06:00 2012-02-17T22:37:12-06:00

The evolution of the Occupy movement continues. Occupy Wall Street staged what amounted to a temper tantrum during its lengthy run in Zucotti Park. Now a splinter group of policy wonks (Occupy the SEC) are dominating the conversation with regulators over how or even if to enforce the Volker Rule...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e2016762781c96970b 2012-02-17T21:52:06-06:00 2012-02-17T21:52:06-06:00

From ReadWriteWeb: From a business standpoint, increasing the price of Whitney Houston's records makes sense. If demand goes through the roof, why not capitalize on that? But that's a strictly profit-focused viewpoint. It ignores the fact that a human being has died, and that the people getting ready to shell...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e2016301492ee9970d 2012-02-12T23:04:22-06:00 2012-02-12T23:04:22-06:00

I first heard that Whitney Houston died last night while channel surfing. Within the first 20 words, the FOX anchor referred to her death as "tragic." My reaction was, "Nonsense. This is a woman who has committed slow-motion suicide on the public stage for the last 20 years. She finally...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e20167621d9011970b 2012-02-11T07:29:00-06:00 2012-02-10T16:44:29-06:00

Just as the other players appear ready to end the controversy, former Komen policy chief Karen Handel is storming the stage to present her version of the Planned Parenthood sociodrama. In an interview with the Daily Beast, Handel presented two sets of images. The first describes how the two organizations...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e201630125b06a970d 2012-02-10T18:00:00-06:00 2012-02-10T12:15:21-06:00

A year after the Arab Spring uprisings, the American audience appears flummoxed by the resolution of that drama. A new Rasmussen poll shows that a third of Americans think the uprisings were good for the United States, a third think they were bad for the U.S., and almost another third...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e2016301177b61970d 2012-02-09T19:09:41-06:00 2012-02-09T19:09:41-06:00

From the Huffington Post: Komen now has the tough task of rebuilding trust among its donors, affiliates and network of breast cancer survivors, who for years have seen the group as not political and devoted to the singular mission of fighting breast cancer. Komen's corporate partners are a critical group....

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e20167620cad26970b 2012-02-09T19:06:39-06:00 2012-02-09T19:06:39-06:00

From Forbes: To date, there have been no visible effects of the backlash on the company’s end customer sales (from the 2010 Gulf oil spill). However, BP will still seek to restore its brand image by introducing a customer loyalty program and a campaign that will focus on its new...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e2016300f749cb970d 2012-02-07T18:09:00-06:00 2012-02-07T16:14:40-06:00

From the Realtime Report: Like other advertisers, Toyota spent millions on its Superbowl commercial this weekend. But instead of enjoying positive word of mouth about the new Camry, the brand is dealing with backlash against a Twitter campaign that sent unsolicited @ reply messages to users who were tweeting with...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e2016300a9af59970d 2012-02-03T17:46:39-06:00 2012-02-03T17:47:09-06:00

“It ain't no mystery if it's politics or history. The thing you've got to know is everything is showbiz!”

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e2016761935382970b 2012-02-02T20:49:00-06:00 2012-02-02T18:45:21-06:00

From PR Daily: Susan G. Komen for the Cure unleashed a series of tweets on Wednesday to respond to criticism over its decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood. For instance, one tweet said: "For 30 yrs we have provided help to low-income, uninsured & underinsured women. Changes to our granting...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e20163009d1802970d 2012-02-02T20:17:00-06:00 2012-02-02T18:21:15-06:00

From Crain's: No doubt there are many reasons the public doesn’t think highly of Goldman Sachs. But surely one important one is the choice words spewed from the mouth of the firm’s public relations chief, Lucas van Praag. Like most PR pros, Mr. van Praag vigorously defends his employer, especially...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e201676192d42a970b 2012-02-02T19:13:00-06:00 2012-02-02T18:11:30-06:00

From the Fortune/CNN blog: Lee Drutman of the Sunlight Foundation declares flatly that "the David and Goliath story" of SOPA/PIPA's defeat "is mostly a myth." He notes that while the Motion Picture Association of America -- the most conspicuous of the lobbying groups that supported the bills -- spent a...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e20163009d3db0970d 2012-02-02T18:24:00-06:00 2012-02-02T20:31:14-06:00

From BBC News: An online petition, signed by 155,000 people, has called on Apple to do more to ensure its Chinese factory workers are treated better. The campaign, on Change.org, follows reports of poor working conditions in factories that make Apple products. A separate SumOfUs petition, with more than 43,000...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e2016300766f1e970d 2012-01-31T18:10:00-06:00 2012-01-31T11:26:19-06:00

From the Daily Dog: It could be a huge week for Facebook, which is expected to file for its highly anticipated initial public offering in the coming days. The IPO, which is expected for the second quarter, could raise as much as $10 billion and could value the social network...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e20167616076e2970b 2012-01-31T05:40:00-06:00 2012-01-30T17:42:54-06:00

From the Daily Dog: Daisy chains of tweets already have played instrumental roles in political protests throughout the world, including the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States and the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia and Syria. It's a role that Twitter has embraced, but the company...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e20168e66117d5970c 2012-01-30T19:33:00-06:00 2012-01-30T21:10:44-06:00

According to the New York Times, a web merchandiser stoked its online reviews by essentially offering free product to anyone who would give the product a five star review on Amazon: By the time VIP Deals ended its rebate on Amazon.com late last month, its leather case for the Kindle...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e20168e6609510970c 2012-01-30T18:25:00-06:00 2012-01-30T16:31:25-06:00

From Steven Waldman at the Columbia Journalism Review: Local television stations have now rallied against the key elements of the Federal Communications Commission’s media transparency proposal, which would require broadcasters to move their “public inspection files” out of their filing cabinets and onto the Internet. I described these proposals in...

Rusty Cawley tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af2a69e20168e634754c970c 2012-01-27T18:09:00-06:00 2012-01-30T16:48:28-06:00

Critics are jumping all over Apple today in the wake of a New York Times story that basically accuses the company of: Mistreating its workers in China. Knowing it and even documenting it. Ignoring it, in favor of maintaining its supply chain. Here's the most damning quote in the article...

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