First a mea culpa: I believe I have been guilty of this, because it was what the client wanted and it was too much work to talk them out of it. Press release after press release has giddy quotes from VPs and CEOs saying they are pleased, excited, delighted – everything short of “we wet [...]

Strangely, some of the worst work in press releases comes from companies that should have the money and experience to be really good. Consider this work of art from ABC’s Family broadcast network: ABC Family advertising sales executives Laura Kuhn and Mark Rejtig have both received increased responsibilities at the network, effective immediately. The announcement [...]

The photo is a slice of a larger one that graces the first page of a case study/news piece from an unnamed software company about the work they are doing with a partner for a retail furniture chain. The piece itself is fine. Looks very polished. Has good information. But it all goes kablooey because [...]

On Twitter this morning, a European software company breathlessly hyped how something big was coming, and then two hours later released the exciting news that a “preview” version of its Website was now live!!! So please come by and please pass the excitement along … Dutifully, I clicked through because I had not heard of [...]

I don’t write about companies to embarrass them, so I almost never actually run the company name in the post. Most people will know who this is anyway, but here goes: BLANK, a premier provider of digital signage and networked media solutions, today announced the addition of team members in the roles of business development, [...]