Public Relations

I own a Scrabble site – http://www.scrabulous.com – and would like to know if it will actually benefit me if I do paid listings in web / gaming directories?

I would like to know exactly how much I should spend on getting my link on a PR 4+ site. I am not concerned with the number of hits I may get. What my main intention is to feature better in search rankings and improve chances of a higher PR for Scrabulous.

Does Public Relation need maths?

I have recently had a family member pass away and local new station has decided they want to do a broadcasting on his death.

Does anyone know a penal code that deals with media’s relations to a death. Please advise. Thanks!
I don’t want them to run it. I told them they do not have my consent!

What practice did Norma Talmadge inadvertently start in 1927, which has since become a popular public relations exercise?

I really want to be an event coordinator when I get older, but I am still confused on what major I sould be pursuing. Can anyone give me ideas?

Firms run by Hillary Clinton pollster Mark Penn stand to make $6M from stimulus plan

Hillary Clinton pollster Mark Penn is looking at some pretty sweet numbers – namely $6 million in federal stimulus dollars awarded to two firms he controls.

The Hill newspaper reported Wednesday that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus package helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global PR firm headed by Penn.

The Obama administration awarded the contracts to Burson-Marsteller to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television.

Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was issued to Penn’s polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, according to federal records.

They also show that a former adviser to President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign also received nearly $70,000 from that contract to help alert viewers in difficult-to-reach communities that their televisions would soon no longer receive broadcast signals.

The adviser, Alfredo J. Balsera, who heads a PR firm based in Coral Gables, Fla., helped craft Obama’s Hispanic advertising message.

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As Secretary of State, Clinton has continued to try and pay off what was a $20 million mountain of leftover campaign debt. And she had largely succeeded – her outstanding debt is down to $995,500.

Every penny of that $995,500 is owed to to Penn’s polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland, records show.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/12/09/2009-12-09_hillary_clinton_pollster_mark_penn_.html

Oh, and by the way, that 5.9 million helped to preserve a grand total of 3 jobs:

“Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn”

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/71353-mark-penn-got-6-million-from-stimulus

“How about Halliburton getting all those no-bid military contracts during your buddy Bush’s term in office?”

Haliburton got no bid contracts under Clinton too. You know why? They are only one of two companies in the world that can perform the herculean tasks they are hired to do. The other company is french owned. Now why spend our money on a foreign company, when we can spend it on an American company? There is no financial malfeasance in Haliburton getting a no bid contract. You FAIL at your moral equivalence.

There’s a tree in PR that is pretty large and it has these fuschia pink flowers on it. When the fall, all the ground around the tree looks like it’s pink sand or that the ground is pink. What is the name of that tree? I’m trying to find pics of it online.

i’m organizing a public relation convention which will be participate by university student. can anybody suggest me a catchy theme or slogan ?

I’m currently jugling so many carreers at once. I’m a part time make up artist, aspiring actress and singer/songwriter the problem is I’m also a student getting my technical/vocational diploma on Marketing (Business Administration) and a brief concentration on Public Relations. I’m really talented, I’ve won many singing contests and lead roles on plays and Musicals. I’m also very good making publicity campaigns for products and I’ve won many competitions in the DECA Club (Marketing association). I’m good at that too.

Even though I’m really good with the carreers I’ve been pursuing, I just want to be a famous Hollywood actress! I’m only 17 and I feel like I need to make a decision before graduation. Should I get an associate’s degree instead of a bachelor’s in Business Adm, Marketing so that I can move to LA and start auditioning and then if it doesnt work out I’ll have a career to fall back on?
By the way, I’ve had many tarot and psychic readings and they’ve ALL said I should pursue acting and the Hollywood life, that I was born for it.

I wrote an article about the Boston Bruins hockey team for my high school paper. I asked to use a photo from the Bruins website and the Media Relations person agreed to let me use the picture and asked me to send him the article. I was going to include a letter, just thanking him and telling him about the paper, but I have a huge interest in sports writing and I wondered if there was something I could include that would possibly let me get more backstage/press view of the team.. I know its a long shot but I was just wondering if any of you had any suggestions.