In the public relations business, there are awards that are not exactly rewards for doing something well. Indeed, we spend an inordinate amount of time identifying and entering award contests for one client who seems obsessed with gaining the recognition that industry awards supposedly connote.

There’s one denizen of the social networks that won’t show up among the avatars of your Twitter followers or among your friends on Facebook, though it’s there all the same — the U.S. Justice Department.

Public relations people love surveys. If your client gets rated in the top five of anything positive, that automatically merits a press release. However, the problem is that PR folks tend not to look too closely at a survey if it’s positive toward a client. But sometimes it’s good to question a survey — especially one that is obviously flawed.

The FakeAPStylebook is just what it says — a compendium of bad grammatical and style advice on Twitter that satirizes the Bible of the Newsroom. Simply put, it’s a lot funnier than the original.

My mother always used to tell me, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” What I’d like to say to some self-anointed marketing mavens is, If you can’t say anything smart, don’t say anything. Please!

In the most recent edition of TrendWatching, the editors introduce the concept of “nowism” to explain the transitory and hyper-current currency of our high-speed, now-focused lives.