Here is a very funny post from “The Bad Pitch Blog” about what kind of people do and don’t cut it in the public relations industry. Agree or disagree?

Here’s a very interesting piece about how celebrity drug addictions get more publicity than disease.

The New York Times wrote this interesting blog about how you don’t always need a huge  PR firm to get you where you want to go. Sometimes it’s good to go with your own PR, or a small, self-started public relations company that can give you the results you want at low fees.

There’s no doubt that Twitter has become an amazing social media tool that is transforming the marketing and public relations industry in terms of networking, audience interaction, branding, and more. However, as useful as Twitter is for public relations, there are the pet-peeved type “tweets” that most public relations professionals should stay away from.

See if you should change the way you tweet here.

Is social presence in the public relations industry beneficial to the audience of the client, or simply the PR company?

Tom Foremski made an excellent point in this article- “the paradox of PR peoples’ large, personal media footprint [is] they can’t use their own access to large numbers of people to promote their clients.”

Read it here.

Read this article from Ad Week to see how public relations leaders are “detecting greater client optimism” in this 4th quarter of the year.

The Raiders — now there’s a team who’s public relations strategy isn’t going very well for them in terms of the public eye. See how PR can backfire on you if it isn’t approached the right way in this article.

Many people see public relations as solely a glamorous industry to work in that involves red carpets, events, and champagne. However, Jen Beltz of MaineBusiness.com discusses this “myth” of PR, and lets her readers know that it takes a lot of hard work, dedication, and knowledge to succeed in this industry. Read it here.

Why are countries so eager to host the Olympics, and what correlation does this have to do with public relations? Robert K. Barney thinks, “When a host city is placed before the television eyes of two-thirds of the world’s population, the event becomes a magnified public relations and advertising phenomenon…”

What do you think? Read the blog from the NY Times here.

Is everyone banning Twitter?  Take a look at this article here for Lubbock!  Discussions of PR play a big role here.