Archive for January, 2009
The Value of Transparency … and an Apology
As we begin a New Year, our country is in trouble. It’s more than an economic crisis, which many people seem to be ignoring. It’s an embedded culture of corruption from Wall Street to Capital Hill. In that context, I wanted to share an entire chapter from my new book, “The Media Savvy Leader: Visibility, [...]
Twitter’s Lack of Transparency, Leadership
Twitter, the popular online mini-blogging service, is in serious, deep PR trouble that has the potential of cratering the online company’s value. It is all self-inflicted, I believe, due to the company’s own arrogance and lack of respect or understanding for transparency and openness. I just returned home to D.C. after a series of lectures [...]
Andy Grammer
I met an incredibly talented singer recently at the Changing Times conference for young adult professionals meeting in the Czech Republic. His name is Andy Grammer, and he’s from Los Angeles. Andy is one of those off-the-scale talents who you just know in your bones will become a star. We all kidded about figuring out [...]
27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community
Heading home to D.C., I am thinking about the phenomenal conference I have just attended in the Czech Republic … 230 young adult professionals from 40 countries who gathered to hear speakers from America, Europe and the Middle East. The conference is called Changing Times, and, as I have written earlier, I believe Changing Times, [...]
Obsolete Defined: Washington Post Online
As the New Year begins, I am thinking about many things in our world undergoing seismic changes, including the news business. The newspaper industry in the United States is in deep trouble. On New Year’s Eve, another paper stopped printing. I read a recent report that nearly a dozen daily newspapers may cease printing a [...]
