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On Communications Blog/Podcast

This is Steve Lubetkin’s primary blog (formerly “Lubetkin’s Other Blog”), where he comments on journalism, communications, and public relations issues of importance, and encourages a dialogue with readers. Steve is a veteran public relations practitioner and a long-time national leader in the Public Relations Society of America. The podcast features seminar programs and interviews about communications, journalism, and other public relations topics.

Did I coin the phrase "e-business?"

March 17, 2005

I don’t know, but I’m going to claim it, just for the heck of it. A while back, I got an email from an internal editor at IBM asking if I had invented the term “e-business.” She Googled the phrase and found this posting I made to the BUSLIB-L newsgroup in 1993. BUSLIB-L Digest...
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VNRs: Amused by the politics

March 17, 2005

I’m very amused by the political attack being waged against the current Administration for its effective use of such time-tested and valid public relations tools as video news releases. These are the pre-packaged news stories that public relations firms like mine can help clients put together. They are delivered via satellite feed to broadcast...
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LOB Podcast for week of March 7, 2005

March 6, 2005

5/20/05: Updated link to podcast file. Lubetkin’s Other Blog Podcast for the week of March 7, 2005 is available. It’s our first podcast, and it features my keynote speech to the Bank Marketing Association/NJ Bankers Association meeting in Woodbridge, NJ on March 3. Please give us your feedback and comments. Thanks. Editor’s Note, 3/30/2005:...
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Sound advice from a business journalist about corporate blogging

February 28, 2005

One of the most perceptive observers of the foibles of business leaders today is Lucy Kellaway, who writes the weekly “Business Life” column in the Financial Times of London. Today’s column, “Why executives should steer clear of the blogosphere,” (FT subscription may be required to see the column) is one of the best demonstrations...
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Why do major media only make SOME corrections?

February 26, 2005

The New York Times is supposedly fastidious about making corrections, and yet in two instances recently, where I submitted corrections, or at least alerted them to errors, the errors have gone uncorrected for months. Case in point: A photo essay in the Metro section on October 3, 2004, about the delivery of a new...
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