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		<title>BP Oil Spill &#8211; Real Information to Really Help or Volunteer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What can one say?  Normally, I provide a well researched and experience-based analysis of crisis public relations efforts utilizing generally accepted facts and beliefs.  I say ‘BP,’ and you get the picture.  Finger-pointing is fine, but it’s time for information.  Following are web sites you might find of help as you struggle to make sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blooming the Box We’re All Talking About: The PR Behind Bloom Box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that’s inexpensive and clean with no emissions,” began CBS’s Lesley Stahl, touching off a frenzy of media attention – a firestorm seemingly as controlled and well calculated as the technology itself. The 60-Minutes segment would be the beginning, the launching pad for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryandeal.com/wordpress/?p=183</link>
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		<title>Tweeting Prompts Fat Apology from Southwest Airlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Known for his film character “Silent Bob,” film director Kevin Smith is now anything but silent. He’s now putting out a call to war among his 1.6 million Twitter followers – and the apparent enemy, Southwest Airlines, is more than listening. It’s Tweeting back.
Southwest is now in a race to apologize to Smith after airline staff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryandeal.com/wordpress/?p=160</link>
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		<title>Toyota’s New War on the Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when it seems conditions at Toyota couldn’t get worse, they do. Negative newspaper articles and television news stories are appearing with such regularity, the crisis that is Toyota is now inescapable even to the most casual of news observers – because it’s affecting them. And because the once revered auto giant can't control its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryandeal.com/wordpress/?p=113</link>
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		<title>Growing Your Own Crisis: How a Bank and an Auto Giant Grew the Seed of Trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It should have been the simplest kind of call into Wachovia Bank’s customer service center. But it wasn’t. Heather Lynn, a 21-year-old art student in Virginia, contributed $10 to an ongoing relief effort in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. And she used her Wachovia debit card to do it. Yet when her transaction posted, a 3% “international service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A BAILOUT for Journalism?  The New Push to Save Journalism from a Digital Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s happened in the banking industry. It’s happened in the automotive industry. Even the insurance industry. So why does it sound almost absurd to pump massive amounts of federal tax dollars into journalism, to save it? The U.S., after all, has subsidized journalism before. And now two distinguished journalists are suggesting the monetary faucet be turned on again. Or else.
In a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Making of Web 3.0 – A Quest to Make Social Media Truly Relevant</title>
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The Twitter feeds were centering on the typical: Someone is dancing, someone is buying a new pair of designer jeans, and someone else is listening to music. And then the music stopped, quite literally replaced by a heart-rattling, violent shaking. Twitter stood still, at least for a moment until the hell-on-earth shaking somewhere began to reach and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryandeal.com/wordpress/?p=12</link>
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		<title>Media Training?  A Note of Caution Before You Hire a Trainer.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interacting with the news media can be exciting. It can even be addictive. And for so many people, the mere prospect of being interviewed by a reporter can be downright terrifying. As an answer, many will turn to media training. Sounds like an excellent idea, right? Yes. But do your homework.
Whether it be America’s short attention span or whether there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryandeal.com/wordpress/?p=9</link>
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		<title>Not getting the broadcast media’s attention?  There’s likely a reason.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter what your message, you’ve heard the phrase: “a minute on television is worth its weight in gold.” For many communications professionals this gold standard of communication seems a lofty goal at best. Either there are insufficient funds to purchase time on television or we just couldn’t imagine our message being of any interest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryandeal.com/wordpress/?p=3</link>
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