Just a Little Holiday Thanksgiving for PR
December 22, 2015 9:55 am Leave your thoughtsEvery year around this time, I start to think more about just how old-fashioned it seems that in PR, we... View Article
Author Archives for Neil Shurtz
A New Old Lesson on Media Relations
October 30, 2015 9:26 am Leave your thoughtsIt is an ongoing complaint of journalists that PR people pitch them irrelevant material, clutter their inbox, disturb them on... View Article
PR Folks: Will We Inherit the Mantle of Journalistic Integrity?
August 10, 2015 9:00 am Leave your thoughtsIt seems that the public has an impression of PR people as overenthusiastic and perhaps a bit phony. Considering our... View Article
Your Misheard Idioms Are Putting People Off
April 13, 2015 11:04 am Leave your thoughtsFor a language that has had a history of relative flexibility compared to its European cousins, English has a body... View Article
Speaking English Can Be Hard
January 28, 2015 9:50 am Leave your thoughtsAs a workin’ man (as my grandfather would say), I confess that I enjoy the moaning of my friends still... View Article
This Light Fixture is Ruining the Environment
April 17, 2014 4:17 pm Leave your thoughtsAn interior, ca. 1978 We’ve all heard about how Edison’s Miracle is filling up landfills and burning way too much... View Article
No Apologies Moran: Why Uncle Sam Wears His Green on His Sleeve
March 17, 2014 12:27 pm Leave your thoughtsGuiness’s “Everybody’s Irish” ad campaign invites people to tell a story about themselves; the cornerstone of American identity. The Irish... View Article
CPP in Harvard Business Review: For a More Flexible Workforce, Hire Self-Aware People
January 10, 2014 9:57 am Leave your thoughtsCPP Director of Research Rich Thompson contributes his thoughts on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to the Harvard Business Review’s series... View Article
Blue Monday, Gloomy Sunday
January 9, 2014 3:25 pm Leave your thoughtsLast week, I heard it announced on the radio that it was the saddest day of the year. Best to... View Article
Get More Done by Doing Nothing
August 12, 2013 10:22 am Leave your thoughtsCommunication technology is increasing the speed and reach of our connectedness every day. We all know this, and some of... View Article