Jargon Shmargon (and Other PR Blog Jots)

Crystal Clear Writing
Fleet Street PR
As someone who finds her friends repeatedly not knowing what the heck she's talking about while discussing her work and social media in general, I definitely appreciate this post from Dave Fleet. he discusses the need for clear writing, and calls for other bloggers to cut the jargon out of their everyday speech as well. "Will I dumb down the way I communicate? No. Far from it. I'll open up my conversations to people who don't live in our little bubble and who don't know our terminology, but who want to know about this stuff. It's not easy to cut out these words and phrases, but I guarantee to you that far more people will understand you."

Click, Clique, Boom
The Buzz Bin
Have PR bloggers formed an impenetrable clique at the expense of everyone else? The argument has been made in the past, but Geoff Livingston doesn't think so.  I can't help but agree with him, while it can be intimidating to join in a conversation when everybody else already seems to know each other, it shouldn't be that difficult for a communicator interested in getting involved.  Harping on this issue just seems like a flat-out waste of time. "Please, add to the conversation with some sort of positive addition, new outlook, or create your own group of friends within the PR blogosphere. Another alternative: Just move along. Unsubscribe. I already have."

Crisis Jots
Crisisblogger
With plenty of items to discuss in his latest post, Gerald Baron spent some time on a number of issues.  He put some particular emphasis on Roger Clemens and his recent testimony before a Senate hearing committee regarding his alleged steroid use. Gerald urges the baseball great to use caution in his aggressive defense, pointing out that his protestations of innocence may do even more damage to his reputation if even the slightest wrongdoing is uncovered. "He is taking the kind of aggressive, in your face defense that has been promoted by Eric Dezenhall, which is (mostly) appropriate if and only if he is absolutely as clean as he adamantly professes to be. There is no room for shades here-he has left no room. My concern expressed earlier was that if he is not as clean as he so vehemently states, then his reputation will be damaged as much or more by his bald-faced lying than by his use of illegal substances."