Florida Prepaid College Board focuses on families for 20th

Florida Prepaid College Board is using their 20th birthday to kick off a campaign for their open enrollment period. This is great PR. Using anniversaries to gather attention od the public.



http://www.prweekus.com/Florida-Prepaid-College-Board-focuses-on-families-for-20th/article/119926/

AIG hires Burson-Marsteller

This story simply tells how AIG is usuing a new PR specialist to help build credibility for the company and fix past problems. "We have hired Burson-Marsteller to help us respond to the huge volume of requests for information we are receiving from customers, employees, and the media," Tulupman said





http://www.prweekus.com/AIG-hires-Burson-Marsteller/article/119856/

One Death Creates Campaign to Stop Hate Crimes

"Ten years ago the death of 21-year-old college student Matthew Shepard, inspired a movement in the LGBT community against hate crimes."

The media have used this event to further create awayness and stop acts of hate crimes. Many public events will in the honor his Mathew Shepard to support the cause.






http://www.prweekus.com/Groups-mark-10-year-anniversary-of-Matthew-Shepards-death/article/119266/

Stocks fall and Governing Officials Step In

Bush steps in and made a statement reassuring the public that the government has a strategy to over come this controversy. He cant guarantee anything and has nothing left in office to do so it seems like to help his image i guess they made him give a warming speech.





http://www.prweekus.com/Global-stocks-fall-Bush-speaks-on-the-economy/article/119296/

Lance Armstrong Back Into The Race

A few weeks ago Lance Armstrong announced publicly that he will be returning to the racing world to bring global awareness about cancer.

“I’ve stated clearly, my main objective in 2009 is to bring about global awareness of a disease that kills 8 million people annually worldwide."

This is definately a PR stunt. Though, Lance has been working on The Lance Armstong Foundation for about 5 years, now more than ever this publicity stunt has got people listening .








http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-tourdefrance-armstrong&prov=ap&type=lgns

SAG negotiating committee punts strike vote to board

Because power has shifted within the Screen Actors Guild, the union's negotiating committee recommended a strike to the guild's national board from their members.
Though the negotiating committee has the power to call a strike but deferred the matter to the board. So now the new board will take up the issue Oct. 18, but its not clear if the board's newly elected directors will be able to oppose a strike authorization from the negotiation committee.

It seems as though the negotiating committee was pushing for a strike to be called from the board so that if something goes wrong, the board will be to blamed and the newly elected board members would suffer from that.

I feel this is good PR because this article I had reveals something negative of the negotiation committee.


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2008/10/sag-negotiating.html