A Bad Story

A Bad Story

TRUTH & VULNERABILITY A Bad Story JoAnna Bennett, O’Brien Communications Group 27 February 2020 A common phrase in PR is, “No press is bad press.” If you don’t agree, you haven’t flexed your problem-solving muscles well enough. I’d like to extend this...
The Sky is Falling

The Sky is Falling

Now that Chicken Little has taken over at Harvard Business Review (HBR), she has a message for you: “GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain”. It’s not a typical children’s story. But it is a fairy tale. And along the lines of Hansel...
A Pain in the PETA

A Pain in the PETA

In case you missed it, or you haven’t been keeping score, it’s official: PETA has now completely run out of things to do. If that weren’t the case, they wouldn’t have jacked up the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club in an attempt to get Phil replaced...
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superficialman!

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superficialman!

The only thing I wanted to do less than write this post was read the article that prompted it: “In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career”. It’s really tough to imagine humanity ending well when we’ve...
The Bubble Club

The Bubble Club

TARGET AUDIENCE & PREFERENCES The Bubble Club JoAnna Bennett, O’Brien Communications Group 6 February 2020 Have you ever started to read a book and couldn’t finish it? Or maybe you started watching a new television series and didn’t get into it. In those...
Let the Sunshine In

Let the Sunshine In

Some things are so completely screwed, you just have to write verses about them. Case in point: “A $1 Billion Solar Plant Was Obsolete Before It Ever Went Online”. Get a load of this: SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes received backing from Citigroup and the...