Remember how way back in 2004 [light years in Internet time], Edelman Public Relations billed itself as the early adopter of digital strategies and tactics for public relations and marketing communications?  What Nolan documents is that the seasoned help at Edelman don't know digital probably any better than the purchasers of their services.  It's a bad day in Edelmanville today.  0160; Gawker's Hamilton Nolan pulled its digital covers. 

Today's decision in Connecticut Superior Court by Judge Barry Stevens could mean a major public relations hit to the Roman Catholic Church in America and perhaps the end of Edward Cardinal Egan's career.  Judge Stevens ruled that the CT Diocese of Bridgeport must give the media access to the more than 12,000 pages of discovery documents collected in conjunction with the 23 clergy sex abuse lawsuits.  0160; 0160; They were settled in 2001. 

While the complaint often comes from professions in which women are in the minority--like the high-tech world--just as many can be found in professions where women are abundant, like library science, public relations and the medical professions. Here's a sampling of what women are noticing: In the journal Academic Psychiatry , this letter calls attention to and documents the lack of women speakers at psychiatry grand rounds. What does it take for a conference to feature more women speakers on the program? Women have been blogging, writing and researching the question

Is this toughness posturing before the coming crisis of the unsealed court documents on Catholic clergy sex abuse?  If this is a public relations strategy on the part of the Catholic Church I wonder what PR expert or agency is doing the advising.  0160;  Public sympathy is with him after the death of his father.  0160; Today, U.S.

0160; That memo describes how the geniuses at the public relations firm which Penn leads will leverage his column in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL to develop new business.   But clients and prospective clients at Burson-Marsteller might well wonder if they can be assured that the documents concerning their business are also secure from leaks.  0160; This thought, Leaks are a red flag of trouble within an organization.  0160; All those leaks, for example, from white-shoe law firms to digital tabloid ABOVETHELAW.COM  tell a tale of great

0160; Some would stretch that to say that public opinion has classified that centuries-old religion as, well, a platform for the devil's works and pomps and must be renounced. 0160; Big names like former Cardinal Edward Egan surface prominently in the 12,000+ pages of discovery documents associated with the clergy sex abuse lawsuits released to the media by the Connecticut Diocese of Bridgeport.  We remember Michael in "The Godfather" renouncing, on behalf of Connie's baby, all the devil's works and pomps.  0160; Now, the tables

Before they select a public relations agency or solo flyer, organizations should check out their help-wanted.  quot;  In it he documents that competition has become less and less about competition between products and services and more and more about competition for attention.  Wearing my other hat - legal commentator - I predict that there will be individual as well as class-action lawsuits against public relations agencies 0160; If those ads want employees with old-line media contacts, forget it.  0160; That's not the way

I took the Amazon Kindle out for a test-drive in a real speaking engagement last month, when I moderated the annual media roundtable--a panel of three reporters--for Washington Women in Public Relations . So I loaded all the intros into one Word document, and bumped the type size up to 16 point in Word before emailing it to my Kindle-specific email address . (That While the moderation requires extemporaneous speaking, the panel introductions did require a text--and gave me a good test opportunity . Here's what I learned about what you should expect when using this new

0160; Do clients really want to pay for all that, especially since as Richard Susskind documents  in "The End of Lawyers? Public relations agencies which should be offering clients low-cost, high-reach digital options.  In a volatile economy, employers as well as prospective clients and customers don't buy experience.  0160;

In the NY POST, we read that he's being assisted by public relations expert Bob Dilenschneider .  Gillon chronicles how instinctively Kennedy knew how to reach the people, while Johnson, at least during Kennedy's presidency, was restricted to relating to power structures such as the Senate. 0160;     That issue could surge in importance when the Diocese, by court order, releases the discovery documents from the settlement In that space - the dying medium of TV - Lou Dobbs created a high-profile niche for himself.