On Saturday, Oct. 15, at 12:01 a.m., a satellite feed made its way from Lee Highway to New York City, and from there to the rest of the nation. On that night, for the first time, Merrifield-based MHz Networks made its mix of local and international programming available nationwide.
That 5,800-word deconstruction of the Miller affair in the Times last Sunday showed how the culture of anonymous sources leads to suppression of information.
The 2006 Wireless and RFID Conference will focus on technologies and strategies for government organizations working to inventory, manage, and secure wireless devices, as well as best practices and applications for RFID across public sector organizations. This conference program is designed to address the current and evolving needs of government program and information technology managers in their efforts to integrate wireless and RFID technologies to meet their diverse mission and business objectives. Those selected for the conference faculty will share their expertise and recommendations with professional colleagues focused on improving government business and programmatic results.
Managing One Person at a Time
Properly done, one-on-ones build relationships. Managers who use one-on-one meetings consistently find them one of the most effective and productive uses of their management time. One-on-ones provide a venue for coaching, feedback, career development, and status reporting.
The job of Web content in the early stages of the sales consideration process is just to get a prospect interested in your organization. The best way is to provide valuable content that addresses their problems. You want to build empathy.
At this early stage, avoid forcing people to register their name and contact details. The best thing at that point is for your prospect to think: "These guys are smart. They understand my problems. I want to learn more."
We sit behind. That's our job. We sit behind our client. We sit behind the issue. The spotlight is just in front of us. We orchestrate from the shadows. Once in a while a client will turn around, and with everyone looking, point to the PR professional and acknowledge the work being done from behind.
Spam watchers have seen a huge spike over the past couple of weeks in the number of new "splogs," or fake blogs created by junk e-mail artists for the sole purpose of increasing the search engine rankings of the Web sites used to sell their wares.
According to this interesting post by Dave Sifry over at Technorati, in the past two weeks there were 805,000 new weblogs created, out of which Technorati tracked 39,000 new fake and/or spam weblogs.
Both public relations and stakeholder relations are important tasks. One of the problems in risk communication is that they call for radically different skills and strategies, yet they must often be done simultaneously. ...
In a controversy, it is usually wisest to pay more attention to stakeholders, even at the expense of a less-than-ideal approach to publics. It is important to apologize to stakeholders for a screw-up they know all about, for example, even though this may mean that millions of others who didn’t know find out.
... Managing [a] controversy well means addressing it honestly and respectfully. [In contrast,] Selling the product well means ignoring the controversy if you can ... and if that won’t work, then it means sticking to a one-sided self-serving sound bite. Once again, stakeholder relations and public relations are in conflict.
... The alternative to good outrage management early on is likely to be unmanageable outrage later.
Evidence is building that the probe conducted by Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor, has extended beyond the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name to include questioning about the administration's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence.
According to the Democratic National Committee, a majority of the nine members of the White House Iraq Group have been questioned by Mr Fitzgerald.
You know your kidnapping is probably going to turn out alright when your abductors give you souvenir baseball caps to take home.
CodeCon is the premier showcase of cutting edge software development. It is an excellent opportunity for programmers to demonstrate their work and keep abreast of what's going on in their community.
All presentations must include working demonstrations, ideally accompanied by source code. Presentations must be done by one of the active developers of the code in question. We emphasize that demonstrations be of *working* code.
We hereby solicit papers and demonstrations.
* Papers and proposals due: December 15, 2005
* Authors notified: January 1, 2006
Possible topics include, but are by no means restricted to:
* community-based web sites - forums, weblogs, personals
* development tools - languages, debuggers, version control
* file sharing systems - swarming distribution, distributed search
* security products - mail encryption, intrusion detection, firewalls
Almost a third, 29 percent, said being copied on the "reply all" function was the most irksome practice. An equal percentage cited receiving large, unsolicited files in their e-mail.
