If you could get peoples’ synapses to wrap around some nifty new service, or product, or, perhaps, a company’s good deeds, that was some seriously satisfying adventuring…
Author: Harvey Radin
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.
HMPRESENTLY: präpəˈɡandə and kəˈpriSHisnəs
The 45th president doesn’t cotton much to journalists, unless they’re with certain media… like some, but not all journalists and commentators, at Fox News…
HMPRESENTLY: A Sharply-Focused Workforce Housing Remedy
What the STR industry is doing, from what I gather, is exacerbating the workforce housing crisis, and changing the character of communities…
HMPRESENTLY: On the Same Page, the Same Day
“Having some disagreement is normal. It is real, it is human. And it’s an opportunity for us as mature beings to work through it….”
HMPRESENTLY: Banishing the Traitors
Or maybe it was juntas, in other parts of the world, where folks, saying things that authoritarian rulers didn’t like, were left out in the cold — were banished — so to speak….
HMPRESENTLY: When PR Becomes HA-HA
“We’re raising awareness of the company’s products and services,” we’d say. And when the term ‘brand image’ became popular, we’d talk about raising awareness of that, too…
HMPRESENTLY: Fleeing to a Better Place
Fleeing from an authoritarian regime, so many decades ago, that dear gentleman and his siblings knew all too well about that, perhaps…
HMPRESENTLY: Bandying About… or Brass Tacks?
If you stormed the nation’s Capitol building last January 6th, you’re being described as a “patriot,” by a number of people in politics…
HMPRESENTLY: A Little Peek-a-Boo… and Smooching, Too
You know that TV series, The Bachelor? There’s a spinoff for seniors, in the works….
HMPRESENTLY: Crazy Woo-Woo, and Common Threads
I have no idea why certain words come to me, usually between three and four in the morning. A friend of ours who’s studied strange phenomena, says it’s ‘woo-woo’…
HMPRESENTLY: Are They Bold… or Impudently Disrespectful?
a Kansas City Star Editorial Board opinion piece noted that “Josh Hawley says trying to protect Americans from COVID-19 is ‘woke propaganda’…”
HMPRESENTLY: Coloradans Love Their Hershey Kisses
Texans like Starburst candy. Oklahomans are chewing on Skittles, the most, this year. It’s Swedish Fish for folks out in Georgia…
HMPRESENTLY: Acronyms in the Spotlight
TMTG, recently announcing former President Trump’s new SPAC-funded social media site, that may give Facebook, Twitter and other established social media sites a run for their money…
HMPRESENTLY: One Screwy Thing After Another
I started writing this column, featuring ‘screwy,’ late Wednesday, with something about reality shows in the first draft…
HMPRESENTLY: Does Anyone in Particular Come to Mind?
“Nearly every cult is headed by a single controlling leader,” a top expert on cults explains, in a novel I’m reading…
HMPRESENTLY: Amusingly Whacky TV … and Mightier Pens
I was talked into binge-watching a series of shows on cable TV, featuring totally dysfunctional — totally nuts — characters…
HMPRESENTLY: Basic Spin vs. Calculated Spin
When you hear a former U.S. president saying; “They’re making windmills all over the place, to ruin our land and kill our birds… to kill everything.” What’s he getting at?…
HMPRESENTLY: Time to Hang Up His Cleats?
But in contrast to all that, there was an article, in the Arizona Daily Star, about a 4,200 mile road trip that revealed something, perhaps, unexpected and refreshing…