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Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Trade your rolodex?

I don’t actually own a rolodex. I do have a unorganized drawer filled with business cards that I’ve collected, but as I eschew paper whenever I can, most of my contacts are consolidated into my LinkedIn account and my Outlook contacts. I’d like to trade my list of Buffalo-area media contacts and online outlets with someone ...

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Payday for Banks

09.23.2008 · Posted in News

A horrifying component of the ongoing financial and banking industry scandal – and I call a scandal, not a meltdown or crisis – involves the fact that the Federal Reserve stopped tracking M3 in 2006. What is M3? Let us explore, for a moment, the Wikipedia entry on Money Supply. M0: Physical currency. A measure of the money supply ...

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Northeast PRSA Conference: On Social Media

Two of the sessions I attended at today’s Northeast PRSA Conference dealt explicitly with social media. The first, on the SMR, or social media release, is the one I will go into detail about here, having already written about it back in April 2008. The second, on blogging ethics, gave me tons and tons to think ...

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Back at it

04.24.2008 · Posted in Communications and Stuff, News

There’s a new blog back in town – I couldn’t stay away from wordpress for long. As of now, I’m preparing for my Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) through the Public Relations Society of America, Buffalo Niagara Chapter, and many other exciting plans are in the works. Stay tuned. ...

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