I've spent a lot of time with students at Drake University, Simpson College, Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, UNI and Des Moines Area Community College the past two years. There are many bright students out there, for sure. Unfortunately,...

**Update** 5:00 p.m. I was not able to talk with Jill today due to some technical issues on the station. We were getting a new internet cable installed and it took longer than expected. Sorry Jill, and we will reschedule soon. Jill Haverkamp is a...

September is "Ethics Month" in the Public Relations field, officially. But anyone who has ever practiced in this field knows that building and maintaining good professional ethics is a year-round task. While PR professionals occasionally get their...

You know when you were that new parent in the PTA, and there was this one mom across the room, who seemed to know everyone, everything and had it all together? Oh, and who, by the way, had brilliant kids, an adoring husband and on top of that is cute...

This weekend, I was invited to kick off the first i_Blog conference at the beautiful Hotel Pattee with a talk on the subject of using Twitter to draw attention to a blog. Pretty standard stuff for a social media consultant like me. I was a last...