Excellent advice from an authority on using the media to best advantage.
A public relations professional shares a wealth of useful ideas for gaining free media coverage.
In this highly accessible guide, Griesel (FUNDaMentals, 2012, etc.) details 226 “smart ideas” that any corporate communicator can use to “raise their profile or that of their company, project or concept.” The author covers several essential topics, such as how to attract favorable media attention, develop lasting media contacts, craft effective messages, make public speeches and master the art of the interview. She holds nothing back as she shares insider tips for getting noticed (“You will not get your story told if the editor or publisher feels your story will not help sell copies, subscriptions or advertising”) and secrets for identifying the right media sources (“A smart way to unearth reporters covering your sector is to look for keywords found in your competitors’ press releases”). A chapter that addresses public-company transparency in financial reporting is sure to help novice communicators navigate tricky regulatory waters. Of particular value is the author’s take on “critical issues to weigh when dealing with a crisis.” Here, Griesel demonstrates her keen eye for crisis management, offering several pertinent ideas for minimizing public relations damage from bad news: “Have a crisis plan of action in place before the crisis,” she writes, and “[a]void a fortress mentality when dealing with the media.” After a comprehensive run-through of basic and advanced PR techniques, Griesel appends a helpful second section, which includes an informed discussion of how to most effectively use websites, email and social media. In this comprehensive work, the author skillfully writes for an executive audience—the text is elegant in its simplicity, its ideas are clearly spelled out, and its chapters are short. Overall, this book draws aside the curtain of mystery surrounding public relations and delivers numerous ideas for gaining corporate visibility.
Excellent advice from an authority on using the media to best advantage.Pub Date: Dec. 10, 2014
ISBN: 978-1936705139
Page Count: 238
Publisher: Business School of Happiness Inc.
Review Posted Online: Jan. 14, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2015
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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