Monthly Archives: September 2005

I went to Warsaw this week to visit our new office. I was met at the reception area by thirteen enthusiastic employees holding up letters that spelled WELCOME. In a larger sense that is exactly what Poland is trying to say to the world. As I arrived, the Poles had just concluded their fifth election [...]

The Technorati and Edelman blog survey, which I blogged about on September 12, 2005, is now live at www.bloggerstudy.com. I encourage all bloggers to participate. Have a great weekend.

I attended the Arthur Page Society annual meeting this week. The Society is comprised of the top communications executives at Fortune 500 companies plus a few PR agency CEOs. The session was held at an opportune moment, just after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the sentencing of Messrs. Kozlowski and Swartz of Tyco (former CEO [...]

One of the songs in the musical OKLAHOMA (I know I am showing my age) starts with Aunt Eller Murphy, doyenne of the community, grabbing a farmer and a cowboy who are insulting each other. She tells them to get along for the good of all, leading to a square dance in which cowboys dance [...]

I did not sleep very well last night. I was haunted by the faces of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which slammed into the US Gulf Coast on Sunday. I kept seeing an African American woman holding two babies, screaming into the camera, “Help us, we are dying.” The images on television and major web [...]