Guest post by Rex Whisman. Republished with permission. [Note from Chino Blanco: Cross-posted here because I’ve just finished listening to Kyle Monson’s “Publicity, Advertising, & the New Mormon.org” at BCC, and reading Kaimi Wenger’s “The Angel and the Internet” at Times & Seasons, and I think Rex’s questions might provide…
Category: Public Relations
Hi, my name is Nagla, and I’m a Muslim
Nagla and her crew obviously shot this on a slightly tighter budget than what Josh and Aron had to work with. Not that I begrudge our dueling skateboarders the benefit of the best production values that Mormon and Scientologist money can buy (Josh and Aron deserve no less, considering that…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Publicity and Gay Rights Edition!
I was going to call this one “surprises edition” since I’ve been on vacation in Italy — hence almost everything that happened on the Internet in the past fortnight was a surprise to me yesterday (when I finally sat down and read the 1000+ blog entries in my reader). But…
the new mission model – pay for fans
LDS Inc. has signed on with http://usocial.net/ to buy Facebook fans and Youtube hits. Now I know why 600,000+ people have watched some of the stuff in the MormonMessage’s Youtube channel: the Mormon Church is paying usocial.net to make it happen. This almost seems like a genius, albeit superficial, marketing…
LDS Public Affairs false flag op?
The latest from Utah’s ABC4: Mormon church documents headed to Prop 8 trial: “ABC 4 News is … being told that copies of these documents were sent by special courier to the [San Francisco] City Attorney’s office [co-counsel in the California federal case] and they were sent in just the…
PBS raising issues about City Creek Center
In case you haven’t seen it, PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (a show I regularly watch because I’m geeky like that) is running a story on the Mormon-owned, $1.5 billion+ new retail center in SLC – City Creek Center. This exchange between Lucky Severson and a UofU professor from the…
Mormon Pollster Gary Lawrence: We Want Negative Buzz
Catch Gary’s latest YouTube clip:
“I’m rubber and you’re glue!”
It has got to be the most popular rhetorical trick in the bag these days! It goes something like this: Someone criticizes you (accusing you of, say, “X”), but you don’t want to have to answer the charge. You don’t want to even have to think about whether the charge…
a solution to the FLDS PR problem
I’m not sure why, but an idea has been floating around in my mind the last couple of weeks. I’m not usually in the mood to help a religious group survive, but I figured this thought was worth putting into the public domain for criticism at the very least. The…
Rebranding the Church
Gabriel Rossi is a marketing specialist who exercises in branding. I have not read much of his work but his emphasis appears to be that you first have to develop relationships with your staff and team members before you can successfully project a brand to your clients and customers. With…