Public Relations

Piedmont Housing Alliance and the Redevelopment of Friendship Court

  Our client, Piedmont Housing Alliance faces many challenges. Their mission is to help provide access to affordable housing to…

10 years ago

Having and Being a Mentor

I grant a lot of informational interviews. I have had interns as part of my team for most of my…

10 years ago

PR Clients Like Bad Boyfriends

A friend of mine has a saying, "The ex-wife is never completely wrong." This is true, I've found, when it…

11 years ago

Three Important Things I Told University of Virginia Communications Students Today

My friend, media personality, and historian Coy Barefoot asked me to speak to his media class today at UVa. I love…

12 years ago

Do You Want to Build a … Reputation?

So many companies set up their marketing and social media efforts as an afterthought. They might engage an intern or…

12 years ago

Barilla’s Big Gay Mistake

Once again a brand is about to bite the dust over attempting to alienate a segment of its customer population.…

13 years ago

What Is Reputation Management, Anyway?

Public relations firms have begun to adopt a descriptor that I think more accurately describes what some of us do;…

14 years ago

The Joys of Being the PR Firm Around the Corner

I worked in St. Louis, Missouri for years.  17 in all, in fact. Five of those I lived in Charlottesville,…

14 years ago

Social Media Success Story: Finding a Job through your Network

Our friend Kim Connolly, @cvillekim on Twitter, vice president of Marketing & Communications with United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area, wrote me an…

14 years ago

Jaggers Communications on CBS-19: More about the Reinstatement of UVA President Teresa Sullivan

Did you catch Rusty Speidel on CBS-19? So much of the ousting and reinstatement of UVa President Teresa Sullivan has…

14 years ago