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The 31st edition of the annual Cruise Shipping Miami convention is set to begin Monday, March 16, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Our agency has handled media relations and published an on-site convention daily newspaper since 1991.
I’ve noticed a pattern emerging in my emails. It appears that the Internet is really worried about me and only wants what’s best for me.
The Associated Press sends out periodic updates of its oft-maligned stylebook, and one can tell what’s been happening in the news by the words and phrases that AP chooses to define, update or clarify.
My favorite word and usage curmudgeon, John McIntyre of the Baltimore Sun, gives a gentle rant about the “joy of missing out.”
We recently conducted a survey of 200 journalists we regularly work with to assess their opinions on what should be comped on cruise line press trips.
With so many social media outlets constantly streaming through our consciousness it becomes increasingly important to take care in choosing your voice and volume.
I received the following out-of-office message from a journalist in response to a press release we sent out. It has to be the best, most entertaining OOO message ever.
Hi. I’ll be out of the office beginning Friday, July 18, returning on the 12th of Never. During that time, I will have limited access to e-mail, Twitter, Twatter and Squatter. I hope to avoid human interaction entirely, except with those closest to me, and even then on a limited basis.
A “caution race” currently is underway in the cruise line public relations practice. Can we continue to ramp up the caution quotient this way?
American Journalism Review has an interesting article on how some content providers are looking beyond page views to measure how well their content engages online audiences.
Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein observes that, despite Facebook’s unassailable dominance in social media, Twitter remains the social media platform of choice for journalists.
