Strive Notes

The number one cool thing about this week is that I have only had two blog spams in a whole week.  It’s usually about 10 a day.  Do you think the spammers are all on holiday?

Well at least the PR bloggers have been hard at work all week and here are my five fave posts.

1. Stephen Brook at the Organ Grinder explains how journalists use cliches as shorthand.   

2. Nick Wilson at Performancing highlights a couple of job boards for bloggers who’d like to get paid for their work (and who doesn’t)?

3. Sandra at PR Girlz has an interesting post about losing a client.  I remember when, as a PYT, the first time a client fired my agency because of his own internal politics despite the excellent job we were doing.  I cried the way home. Then I got over it and landed some new biz.  Remember in business, it’s not personal.

4. Mattew Stibbe discusses when to “go off the record“.  I learned first year at college that the answer is never.  I’ve always stuck to that rule.  It solves a lot of problems before they start.

5. Kami Huyse tells the tale of PR nightmare at Northwest Airlines. It’s a case study of how not to handle redundancies.  It seems NW was not happy with just firing a thousand people, they had to humiliate them too. Make sure you read the comments.

And what, dear Strivers, is on your holiday reading lists?

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