Yearly Archives: 2009

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  "Precious" and PR: A Major Awareness Opportunity

  Posted on December 7, 2009 by jaywalk1 in PR, Public Relations, Social Marketing, Thoughts

  I’m going to start this post with a simple appeal: If you haven’t seen the latest Lee Daniels’ film “Precious,” please set aside a few hours of your life to see this important movie. Precious is based on the novel PUSH by Sapphire. I’ve been told by many who read the book that it doesn’t [...]

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• Welcome Back!

  Posted on December 1, 2009 by jaywalk1 in Thoughts

  Confession: Forgive me. It has been 20 days since my last post. Things got serious at work and just about everything else got put on hold, BUT I’m Back! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVS3WNt7yRU] My last post on the FDA and Social Media gives some clues about the issues I’ve been focused on over the last few weeks, but [...]

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• Gov catches up with 2.0

  Posted on November 11, 2009 by jaywalk1 in Uncategorized

  The mass adoption of social media over the last five years has created both challenges and opportunities for communications and marketing professionals. Some of the challenges include working with a constantly evolving media industry and learning the new norms for communication – how we can and should connect with the public and share information. However, [...]

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  Twitter: A Window into #WestIndian Culture

  Posted on November 8, 2009 by jaywalk1 in Diversity, PR, Public Relations, Thoughts

  As an online PR professional, you work with a variety of web based tools, dashboards, platforms, destinations, networks…throw in a few more nouns and you get the point. Business and tech analysts dig into them upon release, a value is assigned to them and their creators, promotion hits hyperdrive and off it goes to the [...]

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