Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - As They Happened

Here's a short clip I created for a panel discussion with members of the Catholic Press Association from the areas hit by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The audio is from broadcast news reports and the photos were taken by Catholic Press members. The panel discussion took place at the national Catholic Media Convocation in Nashville, May, 2006.



We'll keep working on the video to smooth it out.

Jim Coyle

From Hollywood Fantasy to Reality

This isn't another Holywood special effect like we saw in the film "Minority Report" a couple of years ago. It's a prototype of a computer interface being developed today!

Imagine how you could use this! (We certainly could have used it at a planning meeting a few evenings ago where we were "moving" a future building around to different locations on a site plan.)

Video: A Girl Like Me

Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute, an amazing center for journalists, shared about this video in today's "Morning Meeting" - his daily online newsletter for journalists. In his introduction he wrote:

I think we get so hung up on high production that we forget how powerful "talking heads" can be, if they are saying something compelling.

Look at this riveting example passed along to me my by my colleague Meg Martin.

It was produced in 2005 for Reel Works Teen Filmmaking by a high school student named Kiri Davis. It is seven and a half minutes of young African-American girls talking very frankly about their own impressions of race and beauty. It's called "A Girl Like Me."

Look and listen...

Direct From My Cellphone

Students in my Public Relations class.

I took this photo with my cell phone and then e-mailed it to this blog during class using the phone.

With my phone, the photo quality isn't great, but I usually have my phone with me and could take picture if I saw something unusual and send it directly to the Web. Some things could be fun, some embarassing, and some photos could bring serious consequences for people or companies.

In terms of Public Relations, how can an organization effectively control communication about it when so many of us have access to open communication channels that circle the globe?

Be open, be honest. It's out of your control.

It's a Wiki World

The Wikis are coming!