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Everyone can be a photo editor in this age of inexpensive digital cameras and a variety of tools available for altering photographs. In the newsroom, however, some photo editing can do more harm than good. Recently, The Economist took heat for a Gulf Coast oil spill cover that featured an isolated President Obama standing at [...] July 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Adobe Photoshop, altering photographs, BP, British Petroleum, communication, design, design & editorial, digital photography, Gulf Coast, Media Relations, NY Times.com, Obama, oil spill, online media, Photography, public relations, Steve Mufson, The Economist, Treehugger.com, washington post | Categories: Advertising & Promotion, Design & Editorial, Media Relations
2 comments | Share: This guest post is written by Shelby Benkert, an intern at Vanguard Communications. Unlike most college students, I tend to shy away from many social media networks. Facebook is my go-to in order to stay in touch with my friends, and I rarely use anything else. I do have a Twitter account, but I have never [...] July 15th, 2010 | Tags: communication, Dennis Crowley, Facebook, foursquare, Mediaite, online communication, online media, privacy, security, social networking, social networking sites, Starbucks, Twitter | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Online Marketing
Leave a comment | Share: As if BP’s crisis response mistakes mentioned in a recent post weren’t enough, apparently their public relations disasters continue as more oil pumps into the saturated Gulf Coast. Newly released documents reveal BP’s standard crisis response strategy to be “accentuate the positive, downplay the negative, tell everybody they’re sorry, they’re gonna fix it, they’re gonna do [...] June 17th, 2010 | Tags: audience outreach, BP, British Petroleum, communication, crisis, crisis communication, damage control, Gulf Coast, Media Relations, oil spill, online media, online strategy, PR, public relations, spokesperson, spokesperson training, Tony Hayward, transparency | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Media Relations, Social Marketing, Strategic Planning
2 comments | Share: Wow. The BP PR team just can’t get it right. Even fifty days plus after one of the worst environmental disasters in history, the BP crisis communication strategy (if there is one) continues its downward spiral and never ceases to surprise me. Recently, the Christian Science Monitor reported that BP has been buying up top Internet [...] June 14th, 2010 | Tags: BP, BPGlobalPR, British Petroleum, Christian Science Monitor, communication, crisis, crisis communication, Gulf Coast, Media Relations, oil spill, online media, PR, public relations, Saturday Night Live, spokesperson, spokesperson training, Tony Hayward | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Media Relations, Social Marketing, Strategic Planning, Training & TA
3 comments | Share: Good morning! Today we will be live blogging the Community Health Forum: Harnessing the Power of Information to Improve Health, put on by the Department of Health and Human Services. The event runs from 9:00 until 10:30, and will feature a number of fantastic speakers. We are waiting for everything to get started, and will [...] June 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Asthmapolis, Community Health Forum, data, Department of Health and Human Services, digital media, gov 2.0, health, HHS, IHI, information, Ingenix, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Kathleen Sebelius, Microsoft Bing, National Association of Counties, online applications, online media, open government, Palantir, Sonoma County | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Online Marketing, Policy Communications, Strategic Planning
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