How To Nail An Interview

“Steinar Skipsness” cullled this funny set of bloopers from a series of 28 interviews for a phony position advertised on craigslist. The fact that Steinar managed to get 7 laughably horrible answers to standard interview questions would indicate that at least 25% of us are total idiots.

Stupid Foreign Policy?

“Lessons From the Barbary Pirate Wars”, By Jeffrey Gettleman in NY Times 4 /12/09 states:
“…[A]ny effort to wipe out Somali pirate dens like Xarardheere or Eyl immediately conjures up the ghost of “Black Hawk Down,” the episode in 1993 when clan militiamen in flip-flops killed 18 American soldiers. Until America can get over that, and [...]

Thoughts on the usefulness of Twitter in PR

Everyone is trying to find uses for Twitter in their marketing. All I can say is “Whoa Nelli!” Slow down there. It’s just another tool! It’s not the coming of the messiah.
I think using a Twitter stream like you’d use press releases, ads or targeted marketing makes for a good use of the medium, [...]

The Right to Marry carries the day in Vermont!

Today, as the New York Times points out in “Vermont Legislature Makes Same Sex Marriage Legal, (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/us/08vermont.html?_r=1&ref=global-home), the number of States where anyone can enjoy Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness increased by one, when Vermont joined Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa, as states which allow everyone to marry the person that they love.  Kudos [...]