Obama's Approval Rating Slips Below 50 Percent: I'll tell you why that's a good thing

Last week, President Obama's approval rating slipped below 50 percent in the Gallup poll for the first time since he took office, making him the third-fastest president to fall below that bar since World War II.

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Chamber's Attack on Green has Some Members Seeing Red

As if Iraq and Afghanistan weren't enough, President Obama has engaged in yet another war, and this one might be felt a little closer to home. Obama's foe? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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Facebook Friend the GOP (Expect Request Confirmation in 6-8 Weeks)

Republicans dip their toes into social media, and still manage to drown.

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While we haven't seen this explicitly confirmed by the actors themselves, it seems that the folks at DreamWorks want to make sure Diaz and Myers will keep mum about the new Shrek sequel, in which they'll both be starring next year.

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Fall From Grace: Say Goodbye to Decorum in D.C.

There is a disturbing trend sweeping over America. We've required our mainstream media to cater to our communal attention deficit, which has devalued the quality of our news.

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When thinking about the technology tools you need to launch, measure, and optimize your social media marketing and online customer engagement programs, it helps to organize your efforts into categories: listening and monitoring tools; editorial, publishing, and content syndicatio …

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Great advice for any blog development, and to get full branding, social media, public relations benefit from your web effort. Easy to follow guide. I integrate this advice into web development projects now.

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The gig is up. Any client who thought they could escape social media is now in it, whether they like it or not.

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Top New York PR executive recruiter sees much brighter hiring climate than he did seven months ago, in the depths of a grim economy. There are signs of improvement - cautious hiring in a variety of PR specialties.

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In "Through the Looking Glass," Humpty Dumpty declared, "When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less."

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Justine Gabbard of Long Island had just been charged hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees by Bank of America -- for the second time -- and just couldn't take it anymore. So she sat down in front of her Web cam and got a few things off her chest.

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Tea Partiers: Fed-up Americans or Sheep Manipulated by Sophisticated Right-Wing Propaganda?

A new meme is under construction by the American right, the idea that so-called 'Tea Partiers' represent the views of the common U.S. citizen, fed up with what Alex Castellanos calls the "horrific tilt to the left" they see in government.

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It didn't take long before celebrities got on board, realizing Twitter could be a powerful public relations and marketing tool.

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President Obama dismayed America's allies in Europe and angered his political opponents at home today when he formally ditched plans to set up a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

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With all these corporate fronts coming out of the woodwork, how can citizens tell true grassroots organizations from corporate fronts operated by highly-paid PR and lobbying firms? Here are some tips to help readers spot this kind of big-business hanky-panky.

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The U.S. Military is terminating its contract with the Rendon Group. The Public Relations firm had been grading journalists on their coverage of Afghanistan. The military may have been using the information to decide whether or not to embed reporters.

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Not much rest for Harry Reid's public relations person

Considering handling public relations for a politician? It's not an easy task in some cases. One of the toughest political PR jobs these days is that of Jon Summers, spokesman for Sen. Harry Reid (D., Nev.), notes Grumpy Editor.

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Omar Minaya/Adam Rubin saga

Oh man. I just watched one crazy press conference. In all my years of watching sports and even political press conferences I have never seen anything like it.

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GAZA — Seven months after Israel started a fierce three-week military campaign here to stop rockets from being fired on its southern communities, Hamas has suspended its use of rockets and shifted focus to winning support at home and abroad through cultural initiatives and publ …

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Barbara Sofer of Jerusalem, Israel is the Israel Director of Public Relations and Communications for Hadassah. She is a popular columnist in the Jerusalem Post, a journalist and novelist.

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On Wednesday night Mr. Obama addresses the nation in a prime-time news conference as the public, and lawmakers, are growing skittish over his next big plan, to remake the American health care system.

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The president keeps returning to the same communications tactics over and over, and all the pages of his PR playbook have one thing in common: a big dose of Obama.

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Calls for scientists to do a better job at framing research for public consumption threaten to turn scientists into spin merchants, according to one expert.

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