About: “Paula Apsell, NOVA’s senior executive producer laments the sad state of science journalism and discusses how NOVA is more essential than ever. In a world where the public understanding of science is diminishing, she makes a strong case for NOVA’s tradition of depth and substance, tackling the most pressing issues in science, in a [...]
Archive for the ‘Public Relations’ Category
MIT World: The Art of Science Television
Posted in Journalism, Public Relations, Television on November 11, 2009 | Comments Off
MBC: Museum.TV event – tonight, 6 pm Central Time
Posted in Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Public Relations, Television on November 11, 2009 | Comments Off
From the Museum of Broadcast Communication:
“You’re invited to join the Museum of Broadcast Communications at Museum.TV TONIGHT! at 6 PM Central for a live online roundtable with viewer participation – Conan @ 100 – America’s Late Night Evolution!”
WHAT: A live video streaming event with online participation
WHEN: TONIGHT!, November 10, 2009 – 6 p.m. (CT)
WHO:
Mike Niederman, [...]
Ad Council Creative: Shelter Pet Project
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Integrated Marketing Communications, Public Relations on November 11, 2009 | Comments Off
From the Ad Council:”About the Campaign: More than 3 million healthy and treatable pets are euthanized each year. Shelter animals are loving, loyal pets who find themselves there through no fault of their own. By dispelling myths and misconceptions, The Shelter Pet Project aims to make adoption the first choice when acquiring a new pet.Official [...]
MediaPost: Visa’s campaign for the Winter Olympics
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Integrated Marketing Communications, Public Relations on November 10, 2009 | Comments Off
Barr, A. (2009, November 9). Visa Debuts Global Campaign For Winter Olympics. MarketingDaily. Retrieved November 10, 2009, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=117054
Between Sports Media and Strat Comm, the marketing and branding of the Olympics is a popular question at the ref desk. They will build on their “Go World” campaign.
PR Daily: Flack: what’s in a name?
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Public Relations on November 10, 2009 | Comments Off
Geller, B. (n.d.). Flack: what’s in a name? PR Daily: Public Relations and marketing in the age of social media. Retrieved November 10, 2009.
Geller examines the history of the term and how it may be used today.
NYT BitsBlog: LinkedIn to Twitter
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Integrated Marketing Communications, Public Relations on November 10, 2009 | Comments Off
Miller, C. C. (2009, November 10). Tweets Are Coming to LinkedIn. NYTimes.com / Bits Blog. Retrieved November 10, 2009, from http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/tweets-are-coming-to-linkedin/?ref=technology
A new alliance, how surprising.
CMLP: Glenn Beck’s UDRP Complaint gets the smack down
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Legal Studies, Public Relations, Radio, Television on November 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Bayard, S. (2009, November 6). Glenn Beck’s UDRP Complaint Gets The Smack Down. Citizen Media Law Project. Retrieved November 9, 2009, from http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2009/glenn-becks-udrp-complaint-gets-smack-down
The UDRP is apparently the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy from ICANN. Someone named a website: glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com (site did not link for me). The reason for the take-down may be [...]
CJR: FCC taps Waldman to study the “State of the Media”
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Indymedia, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Library News, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Radio, Television on November 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Garber, M. (2009, October 29). FCC Taps Waldman to Study “State of the Media” : CJR. Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved November 4, 2009, from http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/fcc_taps_waldman_to_study_stat.php?page=all
CJR cites Waldman’s blog Beliefnet. The FCC have a post at 10/28/09, “Steven Waldman Named to Lead Commission Effort on Future of Media in a Changing Technological Landscape” (pdf).
BrianSolis: The future of the Embargo
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Journalism, Public Relations on November 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Solis, B. (2009, November 3). The Future of the Embargo | Brian Solis – PR 2.0. BrianSolis.com. Retrieved November 4, 2009, from http://www.briansolis.com/2009/11/the-evolving-pr-crisis-the-future-of-the-embargo/
PR blogger Solis explains how the PR pitch to journalists is changing. He explains “the exclusive” and “the embargo”.
iTunes may offer pay-tv service; Google phone bill
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Legal Studies, Public Relations, Television on November 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Friedman, W. (2009, November 1). iTunes May Offer Pay-TV Service. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved November 3, 2009, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=116652
From paragraph 2:
A new subscription service would turn iTunes into a pseudo cable and satellite TV operator — a company that charges monthly fees for traditional TV/cable networks. The difference is that iTunes service would be sans advertising. [...]
Variety: video game uses “epic Mickey” icon
Posted in Culture and Communications, Gaming, Integrated Marketing Communications, Public Relations on November 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Morris, C. (2009, November 2). Disney takes Mickey back to his roots. Variety – Film. Retrieved November 3, 2009, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010760.html?categoryid=10&cs=1&nid=2248
Here is a quote:
“He’s an image, and he’s an icon, but he’s not a character anymore,” said Warren Spector, VP and creative director of Junction Point Studios, the Disney division making the game, and the [...]
Center for Social Media: August Newsletter
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Gaming, Indymedia, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Radio, Television on November 2, 2009 | Comments Off
Here is the August 2009 CSM Newsletter. I learned about the video posted below by reading it. Here is the greetings:
Greetings,
It’s official –the dates of our annual Making Your Media Conference are Feb. 11-12. Mark your calendars!
Our 10th annual Human Rights Film Series brought packed houses for screenings of As We Forgive, Burma VJ, [...]
LexisNexis: Scheduled maintenance outage Oct 31st
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Gaming, Indymedia, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Library News, Public Relations, Radio, Television on October 26, 2009 | Comments Off
From Alistair Morrison, Product Manager:
All LexisNexis online products will be unavailable during a scheduled maintenance outage related to the end of Daylight Savings Time. LexisNexis online products will be unavailable to users from October 31, 9:00 p.m. through November 01, 2009, 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time. While we have scheduled the outage at time of relatively [...]
Library News: Consumer Media Ad Source includes digital/web direct marketing lists
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Integrated Marketing Communications, Library News, Public Relations on October 26, 2009 | Comments Off
From SRDS to their customers (modified for Ithaca College users):
Click here to watch a brief overview of what’s new.
Click here to register for complimentary training. Click “register” after the Consumer/B2B session
*The new version of SRDS Consumer Media Advertising Source is now available.
As part of your existing subscription, your databases now include data on digital/web and [...]
PoynterOnline: HuffPo’s “Impact”
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Indymedia, Journalism, Public Relations, Radio, Television on October 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Tenore, M. J. (2009, October 25). Huffington Post’s ‘Impact’ lets readers donate to people in the news. PoynterOnline. Retrieved October 26, 2009, from http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=172262
I’m excited that Arianna Huffington will be visiting Ithaca College! The new “Impact” feature sounds brilliant. I think it would be especially useful in local news stories if other outlets adapt a [...]
CSM: Dispute Finder -Firefox extention that finds counterpoints
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Radio, Television on October 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Gaylord, C. (2009, October 13). Dispute Finder: Making the call on Web ‘facts’ | csmonitor.com. Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 26, 2009, from http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/10/13/dispute-finder-making-the-call-on-web-%e2%80%98facts%e2%80%99/
I’m fascinated by the potential of this Firefox extension called Dispute Finder. It is still in Beta but you may like to try it.
Creative Commons: Commoner Letter #1: Mohamed Nanabhay of Al Jazeera
Posted in Culture and Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Public Relations, Radio, Television on October 13, 2009 | Comments Off
From: Creative Commons, Commoner Letter #1, 10/7/2009
I enjoyed reading Mohamad Nanabhay’s post to the Commoner Letter of Creative Commons. He announced the release of footage on the War on Gaza. Take a look. I’ve added this resource to my research guides for Culture & Communications, Journalism, Television and Radio.
CMLP: New FTC rules aim to kill the buzz on blogs
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Integrated Marketing Communications, Legal Studies, Media Literacy, Public Relations on October 10, 2009 | Comments Off
Robinson, E. (2009, October 8). New FTC Rules Aim to Kill the Buzz on Blogs. Citizen Media Law Project. Retrieved October 10, 2009, from http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2009/new-ftc-rules-aim-kill-buzz-blogs.
Robinson explains the new guidelines (not rules), their application and definition, and concerns.
RCFP: FTC guidelines may call to question who is a journalist
Posted in Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Public Relations on October 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Ericson, B. (2009, October 7). RCFP: New FTC guidelines may affect electronic journalists. Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. Retrieved October 8, 2009, from http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=11055.
Legal definitions of a “journalist” are still being worked out in the law. That I understand. I don’t understand Duke UP’s complaint!:
Howard, J. (2009, October 7). The [...]
Variety: Disney cracks Japan’s insular mobile biz
Posted in Gaming, InfoTech, Integrated Marketing Communications, Public Relations, Television on October 5, 2009 | Comments Off
Shilling, Mark. (2009, October 1). Disney cracks Japan’s insular mobile biz. Variety / Entertainment News, Mipcom Update, Media. Retrieved October 5, 2009, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009439.html?categoryid=3750&cs=1.
6th paragraph:
Disney operates similar services around the globe, but its Japanese biz stands out for its size — 38 million users have paid for Disney mobile content — and breadth. Users can [...]
