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My last blog post started a five-part series about avoiding major corporate blogging blunders. In the first post, I discussed how to deal with negative comments and the fear associated with negativity online.
Give it a read if you're concerned about negative comments on your business blog. But enough about old posts and negativity -- here's tip number two:
comment | 03/08/2010
Gov. Bev Perdue has hired an outside group to conduct a financial appraisal of North Carolina's liquor system, including studying the option of privatizing sales. The latter sounds like a good idea to me. Face it – while the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission might have worked well regulating booze sales years ago, it now acts more like somebody creating a cushy job for himself.
1 comment | 03/08/2010
Though Valerie Bertinelli has said and owned up to things that had the potential to alienate her long-term and new fans (such as candid details of her tumultuous marriage, and the struggles she went through with self image and drug use), she has maintained a transparency that is uncommon among people in the entertainment industry.
comment | 03/05/2010
In a USA Today/Gallup Poll released this week, 55% of Americans polled said they felt Toyota took too long to react to the safety problems in several of its vehicles. Company spokesperson Mike Michels said, "We aren't surprised by the poll results...
comment | 03/04/2010
In a recent Huffington Post article, Grant Cardone asks whether or not PR firms are necessary anymore. Given the recent changes in the media industry and social media as a whole, this is a fair question. But all of those changes make me feel like PR firms are more necessary now than ever before.
comment | 03/02/2010
