http://blog.garritypr.com This is the feed description Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:08:59 GMT en-us http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=104 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=104 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT Tonight’s announcement by the University of New Mexico that head football coach Rocky Long would not be r..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=103 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=103 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT Today’s Wall Street Journal..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=102 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=102 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT When I got off the plane today in Silver City, New Mexico, the news started to fly. First, it was my twitt..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=101 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=101 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT We all have different images of our armed forces. There are memories shaped by our fathers and grandfather..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=100 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=100 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT Denver Bronco’s Quarterback Jay Cutler and the “Round Mound of Rebound” Charles Barkley have ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=99 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=99 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the television and keep from being bombarded by a cornucopia of po..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=98 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=98 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT It is Friday, it is Halloween, it is the last day of the month. Time for something fun! ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=97 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=97 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT It is so archaic to think that, in this day and age, there are some elected officials who skirt accountability ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=96 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=96 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT At least once a month I have the opportunity to travel from Albuquerque to Las Cruces and Silver City for busin..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=95 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=95 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT First, let me say this entry is nothing about politics or PR, it is just a bit of bragging about my brother, ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=94 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=94 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Back in 1997, I tested a new fax machine by sending a news release to a friend of mine at the local ABC affilia..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=93 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=93 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Watermelon thumping is the best way to figure out when the gourd is “good to go” for public consump..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=92 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=92 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Poor “Joe the Plumber” (a.k.a. Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher), he never saw it coming. ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=90 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=90 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT The best free public relations tool on the market today is ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=89 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=89 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT On the client side, we had some great success stories. One client had a great meeting with a key reporter,..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=88 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=88 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Mention “Albuquerque” and you will either conjure a thought of Bugs Bunny taking a wrong turn or ho..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=87 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=87 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT From the State House to the White House and all over the world, leaders relish having the spotlight to ceremoni..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=86 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=86 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Hurricane Katrina and Huricane Ike. Two very powerful and devastating hurricanes. One had a point of ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=85 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=85 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT Looking at the headlines, you have to wonder if ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=83 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=83 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT As you can see on the home page, my blog has not quite recovered from a server failure; which coincided with Hu..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=82 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=82 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT While attending TCU, my college ro..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=81 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=81 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT The day, and week for that matter, after a three-day weekend always takes a unique twist. Aside from the t..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=80 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=80 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT During the three years I lived in Montana and the many trips I made into ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=79 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=79 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Number of e-mails requiring a response: 185 ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=78 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=78 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Is it scrambled eggs or is it a three cheese omelet? That was my question today at the Albuquerque Sunport..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=77 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=77 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT With each legislative session (regular and special) a gaggle of part time communicators descend upon the Round ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=76 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=76 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Every once in a while, on those listserves we all subscribe to in some form or fashion, a nugget of information..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=75 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=75 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT The changing face of how people consume information continues to cause quite a stir. It is a regular topic..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=74 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=74 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Many of you know of my involvement with Ronald McDonald House Charities of New Mexico.&n..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=73 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=73 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Not since OJ Simpson’s White Bronco was tracked by television news helicopters have we seen such a media ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=72 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=72 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Maybe it’s the images of flooding that washed out roads, or ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=71 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=71 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT When Starbucks management ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=70 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=70 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Many thanks to the Albuquerque-based members of The Ga..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=69 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=69 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT The issues facing the oil and gas industry are complex and simple.  ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=68 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=68 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT During his recent campaign stop in Albuquerque, ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=67 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=67 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT In advance of The Dark Knight’s..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=66 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=66 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT The second largest ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=65 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=65 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Everyone has issues with weight loss… well let me rephrase that all normal people have issues with weigh..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=64 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=64 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Ok, caretakers of the Smithsonian t..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=63 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=63 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thank you for grand hospitality from theNational School Pu..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=62 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=62 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT It’s interesting. As the United States of America prepares to celebrate its independence and all tha..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=61 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=61 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT That saying, “first one in wins” is a tried and true commentary about being the first to market wit..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=60 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=60 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT We are all familiar with the saying that the “fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Wel..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=59 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=59 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT By the time November's Presidential/Ge..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=58 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=58 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT This past Father’s Day weekend included my participation in the ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=56 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=56 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT A fog of mistrust overshadows the NBA Championship Series..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=57 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=57 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Like many of my colleagues and former co-workers in the news media, to say that I am shocked and saddened at th..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=55 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=55 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT The economy has a funny way of creating new words. While I am at a loss of remembering any recent words, a..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=54 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=54 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT The National Basketball Association..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=53 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=53 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT There has always been a tension between the news media and public relations. There has always been a tensi..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=52 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=52 Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT After a long day at the “happiest place on eart..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=51 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=51 Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT On this Memorial Day, thank you to those who have served our country paying the ultimate price of their life so..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=50 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=50 Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Ok, so I am torn… but not really. I live in Albuquerque, the home of the UNM Lobos. I am a..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=49 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=49 Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Recessionary process are forcing many businesses into transition, forcing decision makers to define their marketing appr..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=48 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=48 Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT I just finished an interesting session at the ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=47 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=47 Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT One of the many people I’ve had a chance to meet at this year’s PRSA Counselors Academy is none other than Michael..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=46 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=46 Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT A few weeks ago I read that commercial airlines found that if they fly a little slower at a lower altitude..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=45 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=45 Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT My God-son, James Aloysius Garrity IV graduated from the ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=44 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=44 Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT I was sitting at my computer, minding my own business when all of a sudden an e-mail cross my inbox addressing ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=43 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=43 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT The old “Bait and Switch” is alive and well. Case and point, I received three emails today fro..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=42 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=42 Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT PR Week..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=38 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=38 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson made it official; May 8, 2008 is known as Mike Robert’s Day. We&..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=37 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=37 Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT I’ll give you three guesses of who will be speaking to the New Mexico Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America this mon..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=36 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=36 Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT UPDATED: Includes comments from Chows owner Jason Zeng ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=35 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=35 Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT There are companies that talk about “being” involved, then there are those that “are” i..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=34 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=34 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thank you to the New Mexico Land Title Association..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=33 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=33 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT Shortly after I posted yesterday’s blog about Mike Roberts, I went to a client event at the ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=32 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=32 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thank you Mi..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=31 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=31 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT Everyone celebrates Earth Day in different ways. For me, it was being stuck in tra..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=30 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=30 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT The events in West Texas surrounding the removal of 416 children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=29 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=29 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT Janet Wise and her team at Santa Fe Community College have a lot to be proud of! Not ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=28 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=28 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT Those words were uttered by a co-worker of mine when I was working with KXAS-TV in Fort Wort..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=27 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=27 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT Those are the words that were likely uttered at the Bernalillo ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=26 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=26 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT Starbucks continues to "wow" me. What other company can have a two hour staff meeting and get national press as..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=25 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=25 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT Well it is Saturday and the last issue of the Albuquerque Tribune has been delivered. It started as Magee’s Indepen..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=24 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=24 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thank you for the Texas hospitality shown to me by the Texas School Public Relations Associatio..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=23 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=23 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT The largest beef recall in US history has school parents in New Mexico scratching their heads. Of the 143 million pounds ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=22 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=22 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT As a public relations practitioner, how do you increase your value to your supervisor, or your supervisor’s supervisor?  In the arena of public schoo..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=20 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=20 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT Despite New Mexico’s Democratic Caucus is still being unresolved, there is going to be a full ballot this November.&nbsp..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=18 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=18 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT Jack Bauer never needed to let public relations get in the way of a good storyline. However, as today’s Wall Street..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=19 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=19 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT The University of New Mexico took a big step forward this week as it cleaned the slate on basketball attendance figures at the..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=17 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=17 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT The official state question can now be applied to the City of Albuquerque’s top two controversies: Red Li..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=12 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=12 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT A program that was launched on October 31st is finally getting some wider national play. Delta Airlines released a series of short animated videos depicting dif..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=11 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=11 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT Let’s say you are one of the ..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=10 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=10 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT Every once in a while, a promotional campaign comes along that makes me pause to ponder “what were they thinking when that idea surfaced.” Such is t..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=5 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=5 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT There is so much to say about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s news conference that was filled with fake reporters that it is really like being a..... http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=41 http://blog.garritypr.com/index.php?blog=41 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT <a href="http://technorati.com/claim/j8j2tk6f8m" rel="me">Technorati Profile&l.....