We often receive phone calls from production companies looking to feature our client’s products or services in a television show. The television show name is typically very similar to a popular national show. The pitch is fast and furious, and there is typically a very short timeline involved.

A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post about the resurrection of Myspace…and this morning I got an invitation to test it out. After poking around, it is certainly much more functional than the old Myspace, but I am sure forward-thinking Myspace does not want to hear about old vs.

Earlier this week, Joe Agozzino, 57, exited this world and moved on to the next.  Like his father (Charlie) before him, he left this world way too soon. It was a shock and a heartbreak to everyone who knew him.  And everyone, it would seem, knew him.

My niece hit me up on Facebook last night with a most excellent request: Uncle Jimmy- Was hoping I could pick your brain for a moment? What would you say are the major differences between PR & marketing/advertising? Not in a technical sense, but rather, your opinion, as someone in PR.

The landscape of blogger relations and product review campaigns is changing. Through our ongoing work with bloggers - from mommy bloggers to baking bloggers, fitness bloggers, weight loss bloggers, DIY bloggers, and bloggers with diabetes - we have seen a significant shift in how bloggers approach product reviews.

Let’s face it. Not all products and services are going to be 100% perfect 24/7 and not everyone is going to be 100% satisfied. More and more consumers are turning to social media with their questions, complaints and concerns, despite customer service phone lines, Q&A, and live online chats.

The Sterling-Rice Group tapped its Culinary Council to determine the top 10 Food trends for 2013.  And while some sound very exciting, others strike me as rather undesirable. On the "sounds good to me" side are sour foods and drinks influenced by the DIY pickling and brining trend (e.g., sauerkrauts, pickles and sour cherry beer).

  There's been a lot of chatter lately speculating the bloom is off the rose at Apple, and  Samsung is the next big thing. Please.

I received an email from my brother-in-law earlier this week requesting my thoughts and prayers on Monday, World Cancer Day.  But it turns out Monday is not World Cancer Day; that would be in February. And it is not National Cancer Day or National Cancer Survivors Day.  It is however, American Diabetes Month.