Happy, Happy!

Dear friends,
Just a quick note to wish you a very Happy New Year. December, much like all of 2007 has flown by much too fast.
In 2008, let us resolve to be better at telling our stories. Let us be resources for reporters and editors. Let us listen as much as we speak.
Those [...]

Reporters are from Pluto – We are from Saturn

There is a reason we call it media relations. A successful media relations strategy must focus on developing and maintaining quality relationships with members of the media. This might seem simple, but in all reality it is as complex as any other human relationship we engage in.

The relationships in our lives that hold meaning for [...]

Salvation Army Scammers to Serve Time

Two Houston brothers who set up a fraudulent website following the Katrina disaster will each serve more than eight years in jail for their crimes. The federal government is cracking down on scammers such as the Stevens brothers, according to the Nonprofit Times:

Two Houston brothers each were sentenced last month to more than eight years [...]

When?

I’m sure you’ve seen the news reports by now. A 19 year-old boy opened fire this afternoon in an Omaha mall.
Violence is all too common in our world today. It’s even more shocking when it hits so close to home (for me).
The young man who did this had a history of depression and many other [...]