By Susan M. Tellem, Partner, Tellem Grody PR, Inc.  According to tradition (and Wikipedia, of course), kissing the Blarney Stone endows the kisser with the gift of the gab and great eloquence.  No...

By Sam Ford, Director of Digital Strategy, Peppercomm  The South by Southwest Interactive agenda this year was full of the usual suspects of speakers: digital pioneers, entrepreneurs, social activists...

By Mike Bako, Marketing Manager,  D S Simon Productions Mike offers analysis of the speeches by Mitt Romney and President Obama in the aftermath of Obama winning a second term.  Mike Bako’s...

By David Johnson, CEO, Strategic Vision, LLC In public relations, one of the first lessons we learn is that to deliver real results for our clients (and their bottom lines), we need to take ourselves out...

By Robert J. Geline, President, 144 Media Every year about this time, something called the “Beloit College Mindset List” appears, often to some great fanfare in the media. It’s a compendium of...

By Bill Lee, President, Lee Consulting Group, Author, The Hidden Wealth of Customers  For most of recorded history, nations grew by installing rulers and elites who told people what to do. Then the...

By Ashley McCown, President, Solomon McCown & Company It’s vitally important to understand how beliefs have changed in the post-recession marketplace and how those changes shape your ability to...