Universal Broadband “While the US talks, other countries are acting. Both Finland and Spain have now decided to add ‘broadband’ to their universal [telephone] service requirements.
"By 2011, any Finn or Spaniard, no matter where they live, should be able to get a reliable 1Mbps connection at a reasonable price,” ars technical.com reports.
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It’s news to me: Who to trust? “For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them,” Rasmussen reported today, 10-24-09.
The polling organization asked this question: “I’m going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which political party you trust more to handle that issue.” Responses were:
Healthcare
...D-40%; R-46%
Education
...D-38%; R-43%
Social Security
...D-37%; R-45%
Taxes
...D-35%; R-50%
Economy
...D-35%; R-49%
Abortion
...D-35%; R-47%
Immigration
...D-33%; R-40%
National Security
...D-31%; R-54%
Iraq
...D-31%; R-50%
Government Ethics
...D-29%; R-33%
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One problem with Tiger Woods’ current public relations problems is the difficulty separating personal emotions about him from his status as a brand and brand representative.
Woods’ case is especially challenging because the personal characteristics that make him so compelling as a role model for teens and other youths are the same traits that make him [...]
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Public relations professionals and corporate executives who are savvy about working with the media well understand the time-honored adage that one should “never get in a fight with a guy who buys printers ink by the barrel.”
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Business communicators should find very instructive the mushrooming of issues and emergence of discontent evident during the summer Congressional recess.
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“Tip” O’Neill’s admonition that “All politics is local” seems never more vindicated than during this era where social networks provide instant gratification on a national, if not global, scale.
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Ray Charles plays and sings “America, the Beautiful” during a 1991 concert.
If, as a corporate communicator, you’ve ever felt like a voice crying loudly into a vast darkness — seemingly heard by no one — you’re not alone. But that plight is changing because these times of recurring crises are actually enhancing communicators’ visibility and perceived value as key enterprise assets.
Today’s urgency to [...]
Pity the poor CIO and the geeky IT team. Nobody understands what them. They often talk in unintelligible jargon; their collective contribution to the bottom line is a mystery; no one knows how they fit into the company’s strategic plan.
So, who among the business communicator class really cares?
You should care because few [...]
The Forbes Web edition recently amused us with a tale that’s all too familiar, a CEO is sand bagged by a network scheduler between on-air talent and the other experts.
Here’s the setup: CNBC invited the New York CEO to discuss the impact of Obama’s stimulus package on small businesses, companies like his own. [...]
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