David Armano's Logic + Emotion blog provides insight into marketing, design and visual thinking.

In this Bad Pitch Blog video he weighs in on why PR people should think more visually.

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The Bad Pitch Blog likes to profile good pitches as well as bad pitches. Send us your pitch and a link to the ink it generated for consideration. http://badpitch.blogspot.com

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In June I took some of our latest project photography and did this intro vid for a longer Photostory 3 video.

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Edward Bernays on propaganda and public relations with a polemic insert from Steven Pinker's 'The Staff of Thought'. Can elite bards and scribblers create new metaphors to manipulate public opinion? I think they can, and apparently they do.

According to the The Government Accounting Office, the Bush administration spent $1.6 billion over the last two and a half years on public relations operations. That's $1.6 billion of our tax money commandeered for, among other things, O.T.I.-style partisan propaganda here at home, aimed at affecting domestic elections. Included in this figure is a mysterious $15 million paid directly to individual members of the media.

This information comes on the tail of previous disclosures concerning covert propaganda operations including the production of fake TV news stories and Bush administration payoffs to crooked journalists to slant stories even further in a pro-Bush direction than the normal corporate media spin.

More about public relations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P ublic_relations

More about Edward Bernays:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E dward_Bernays

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http://live.pirillo.com - I don't mind PR agents, really. There are some - and their approaches - that I DO mind. There's a fine line that a lot of PR people don't realize is there. I'm now being asked by a journalist to give my thoughts about PR and their direct role within the Blogging the community.

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My guitar is out of tune, I can't sing very well and the lighting sucks. But here I go anyway!

Lyrics:
When I wake up in the morning,
The first thing I see,
Is an e-mail in my Gmail,
Sayin' you're followin' me.

And next thing you know,
I'm followin' you,
Not everybody does it,
But me and Scoble do.

Chorus:
Cuz Twitter beats Facebook any day,
140 characters is all you need to say.

Cool thing 'bout Twitter is you meet new people,
You even get to stalk the famous ones too,
We've got Veronica Belmont from Mahalo Daily,
Barack Obama and Hugh MacLeod too.

Chorus

Twitter's like a family,
As long as you're not spamming me,
We keep in touch, we share too much,
And @Garyvee meets up for lunch!

Chorus

But be careful, with you're iPhone...
Don't DM the whole worlldddddd

Chorus

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