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Facebook flouts privacy: No one Cares?
Remember all those fake Facebook privacy notices? Be sure to post this or everyone will have access to all your private content! While those allegations were entirely erroneous, now Facebook has been accused of some actual, substantial privacy violations … and the world seems to have responded with a collective shrug. Read More +
How to Create ROI for Event Attendance
If you’ve ever been to a conference where it seems as if the coordinators didn’t have a clue about what they were actually trying to promote, you know the feeling of it all being a waste of time. If you ever tried to run a conference yourself, you know that “runaway” feeling of not knowing how to focus your energies on what will make the conference worthwhile to attend. So how do you address both issues? The first and foremost thing you should focus in Read More + Read More +
Tidal Wave Flop: Jay-Z’s #TidalFacts
When news broke out that Jay-Z would be creating a subscription streaming music service, it seemed like the perfect idea. Jay-Z is one of the most successful and well-known celebrities out today, so why wouldn’t this be another success? Well, it’s not. Jay-Z’s service, named Tidal, is supposed to help pay those struggling artists for the work they’ve created. However, what the public saw was a bunch of millionaires on stage asking for even more money. Read More +
Best Communicating World Leaders
Some great communicators and world leaders: three men, a Catholic, an Israeli and an Englishman. It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but these three are leaders of influence, affluence, and principal. Read More +
Secret APP Tries Unique PR move – your money back!
The “Secret” is out. Literally. The social media app that pledged to keep its users’ identities anonymous is done, shut down, kaput. In most cases that would mean the investors would be out their money, just…out. Either that or the company would try to get more money and more time, attempt to rebuild, refit or rebrand. Read More +
Did Rolling Stone Sacrifice Credibility for a Headline?
The pop music magazine that practically invented “edgy” long form reporting is about to get bitten by its own … well … no one is really sure what to call this colossal blunder. The apparently systematic mistakes made in relation to the University of Virginia “rape story” will haunt the publication for a very long time. Read More +
Hostess Nails Viral Marketing
It was a joke all along, and most of the Internet fell for it. Recently, Hostess released a meme on social media celebrating the beginning of baseball season. In the meme, a Hostess cupcake was decorated to look like a baseball. The inscription read: “touchdown.” As expected, social media went nuts. Countless denizens of the web could not resist pointing out that “touchdown” is a football term, not a baseball term. Others argued that it was so obvious the caption had to be a joke. Read More + Read More +
Relaunch of the new 5WPR website!
(New York – March 28, 2015) – 5W Public Relations, one of the Top 20 PR agencies in the U.S., this week announced the launch of its new website, which is more user-friendly and has an updated look. The award-winning marketing and PR firm represents client-partners in many practice areas, including Travel and Hospitality, Food and Beverage, Apparel and Accessories (also called Lifestyle), Healthcare, Nonprofit, Event Marketing, Social Media, Crisis Communication, Entertainment and Sports Management, Technology, Government Relations and Product Integration. Read More +
Jeb Enjoys Wall Street Spotlight
When the word first began to leak out that Jeb Bush was considering a run for the nation’s top political office, naysayers wondered about the possibility of Bush fatigue.” And while maybe after seeing his father and brother in the White House, American voters might be ready for a change…but there are many other reasons why Jeb Bush is a strong candidate and the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. Read More +
GoDaddy Rides Strong PR all the way to Wall Street
After years of raising eyebrows during the Super Bowl, Ronn Torossian says web business GoDaddy is catching the eye of Wall Street…and that gaze is lingering. Within hours of hitting the NYSE ticker, “GDDY” stock rocketed up 30%. Read More +
