Richard Bailey provides some interesting links to companies’ blogging guidelines. One of the things that caused some blogging hesitation and that I am most paranoid about is the association with an employer. I do mention my employer here, simply out of honesty, but it shouldn’t have any effect or influences, and of course, I...
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On Tuesday I visited the Rembrandt-Caravaggio exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The Netherlands is celebrating the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth throughout all of 2006 and this exhibition is a major part of the celebration. I don’t usually like to browse with an audio guide, but since it was free of charge...
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Columbia University’s National Arts Journalism Program and the Music Critics Association of North America today released a new study into classical music critics, covering demographics, psychographics and ethics. Through Artsjournal.com I came upon the National Arts Journalism Program Web site a couple of days ago and decided to print “Reporting the Arts II” to read...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the Washington Post today: “I have said many times that I am not proud that I lied when I sought asylum in the Netherlands,” Hirsi Ali said in her statement Tuesday. “I did it because I felt I had no choice. I was frightened that if I simply said I was...
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Unfortunately, this is not a pun on the famous Star Wars movie, but the sad truth about Dutch Minister Rita Verdonk, who has threatened to take away the Dutch citizenship of MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. An immediate debate by parliament has been called. My feelings toward Hirsi Ali have always been mixed. On one hand...
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With all the blogs, message boards, and RSS feeds on the Internet today, a Web site needs constant updating. A Web site can’t do with just static content anymore; it needs news, or at least new content, quite regularly (what’s going on with the organization, news releases, events calendar etc.). Visitors only return a couple...
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Yesterday I went to see Roosevelt University’s performance of The Yellow Wallpaper, a 1989 chamber opera by Ronald Perera. Expecting modern atonal music and a vague story I couldn’t have been in a more wrong direction. Brian Hotchkin, a good friend who played the baritone role of John the husband, and a low student (!)...
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Through the blog at Forward I learned about the University of Southern California Annenberg Strategic PR Center’s Generally Accepted Practices (GAP) study. I didn’t read the entire study and I am likely not going to, as the executive summary was twelve pages long already. I read the executive summary and skimmed through the rest...
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Today the Publicity Club of Chicago presented their Annual Golden Trumpet Awards at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, honoring top public relations professionals and campaigns. Dominic Calabrese, my former teacher at Columbia College and director of public relations at my past internship location, the Chicago Lighthouse, invited me to join him and others...
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Blogs are tricky beasts. Partly elephant, because they will remember every personal information tidbit you have ever told them. Who knows when they decide to use that information and trample all over you? Partly dog, because they could be man’s best friend if you handle them well, but if you don’t, however, they will bark...
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