Journalists Will Win the Breakup
I want to take a break from the Caster blog’s regularly scheduled program of PR tips and tech trend analysis to say something that I thought was blindingly obvious, but is apparently very confusing to a lot of social media executives: reporters are good, and we should support them. Last week was dark for journalism. […]
She did WHAT? The Baddies of History Pt. 2
It’s Women’s History Month, and Caster is spending it with the girls who smoke behind the bleachers during gym class. Last week, we added some dimension to unfairly flattened stories of Cleopatra and Marie Antionette. This week, we’re taking a look at two women who shocked the world: Catherine the Great and Elizabeth Bathory, the […]
Rumor Has It: The Baddies of History Pt. 1
Let’s play a game of women’s history word association. I’m going to list four powerful women. Your job is to list the first fact that comes to mind about each of them: Cleopatra Marie Antionette Catherine the Great Elizabeth Bathory Now, be honest: Did you recall Cleopatra as a beautiful temptress who seduced the rulers […]
5 Ways PR Pros Can Use ChatGPT to Accelerate Their Work
PR pros in every single market need to pay attention to AI content generation tools. If you don’t figure out how to use them, you’re going to be replaced by them. No, not now. Tools like ChatGPT are a long way from being able to engage in media relations—but they are lot closer than I […]
Let’s Get Technical: Embracing Specs in Tech PR
Caster’s clients run the gamut from multinational fortune 500 companies to stealth mode start-ups—just about the only thing they all have in common is a high incidence of engineering degrees in the C-Suite. With such a varied pool of clients, everything we do addresses a different audience, with widely varying level of technical expertise. We’re […]