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By: Marijean Jaggers
03/27/2008 - Last week, I shared my thoughts on the BlogNewsNetwork controversy. With some, I hit a nerve. The conversation about BNN continues and is still heated. At Standing Partnership, our tagline reads, "Standing together. Moving forward." I see this ongoing discussion as an opportunity for the…
Meeting Roger Mudd at the Va. Festival of the Book
By: Marijean Jaggers
03/26/2008 - I had the great pleasure this morning of listening to Roger Mudd, famed broadcast journalist and Washington correspondent for CBS News and NBC News and speaker at the Virginia Festival of the Book Business Breakfast. Also, to my great thrill, I had the opportunity to…
Branding Middle America: JCPenney & Ralph Lauren
03/26/2008 - So, maybe I'm a snob, but I truly dislike JCPenney. That is until now. Living in an exurb of St. Louis, JCPenney is the only department store within 15 minutes of my house, so I've been forced to go there a time or two. When…
Please, We're Begging You, Plan For a Crisis
By: Mistie Thompson
03/25/2008 - In a perfect world, every single one of our clients would have a crisis communications plan. No, the Standing staff isn't part of some crazed doomsday cult predicting disaster at every turn (although if you flip around our website fast enough, it can look a…
Past, Present, Future: the basics of crisis PR
By: Beth Minnigerode
03/24/2008 - This month's issue of Public Relations Tactics revisits the Tylenol cyanide tampering crisis of 1982 – an industry standard of crisis PR done right. Times have changed and social media has certainly added an even timelier element to crisis management. However, the main principles of…
A conversation about MySpace China
By: Maria Donaldson
03/21/2008 - I read the other day, in my Vogue magazine, that Wendi Deng, who's married to that guy, ugh his name is on the tip of my tongue, is heading up MySpace China. Tom? No, bigger than Tom. Rupert Murdoch? Yes! That's cool. You should blog…
The UPS Store: A blogger relations story comes full circle
By: Marijean Jaggers
03/20/2008 - Back in January, I wrote a post on my personal blog about the UPS Store and how a single employee had really made my day. That set into motion events which led me to write a post for Where Do You Stand? about the UPS…
Weighing in on the BNN controversy
By: Marijean Jaggers
03/19/2008 - A hot topic amongst St. Louis bloggers has been the presence and practices of David Mastio's BlogNetNews. Sigh. The less gentle, more irritable part of me wants to tell ya'll to chill the heck out. (Editorial note: since I moved to Virginia I am absolutely…
The Monetary Value of Facebook
By: Susan Iskiwitch
03/19/2008 - Therese Poletti at MarketWatch has posed an interesting question: Will America Online's $850 million deal to buy social networking company Bebo alter the valuations of social networking firms, specifically Facebook? Bebo, the second largest social networking site in the United Kingdom (and the fourth in…
Wall Street Journal Provides Plethora of Pointers
By: Maria Donaldson
03/18/2008 - The Wall Street Journal's online "Small Business" section is a plethora of online visibility pointers. Among them: What are the pros and cons of LinkedIn? Building an Online Community of Loyal and Vocal Users Allowing Customers to Friend You on MySpace and Facebook Improve Client…
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