| Internet Gambling Deserves a New Chance
Officers and board members of Internet gambling companies vetted and approved for trading on London markets—and underwritten by some of the globe's most respected financial institutions—have been taken into custody while on U.S. soil. And U.S. authorities have arrested online-payment company executives on specious charges of money laundering. It remains too early to tell how much this untenable war against Internet gaming will cost the U.S. in trade flows, innovation, and moral authority. But it is perfectly clear that it is time for America to stop pretending that the rule of law is a one-way street. .
Life in Romania - Telegraph Mentor
Bureaucracy: When the country experienced a 6.0 Richter scale earthquake in November, one radio commentator remarked that at least something in Romania was moving. Bureaucracy can be a huge headache throughout the country, which is still trying to emerge from the communist mentality. Simple, everyday tasks that would not take more than five minutes in Britain, such as getting a receipt or a guarantee for an appliance, require reams of forms and queuing. Getting a work permit is especially laborious, with low-level officials seemingly taking a perverse pleasure in finding one of your photocopies or translations missing and sending you away to return on multiple occasions. Sometimes they want a bribe, sometimes it is inefficiency, sometimes pure stubbornness. Unfortunately bureaucracy is an ingrained part of life here, so looking upon it as a cultural experience is probably the best way to keep stress levels down.
Does size still matter?
Anyone can set up a blog in mere minutes and have their say online – in text, images and video. They can podcast and videocast. They can syndicate their thoughts and ideas in an RSS feed, making their comments visible to the entire world." Business objectivesSo measurement metrics must be determined by business objectives: Who do we want to reach? What media do they use? Where do they live? What do we want them to do? How important is competitive positioning? What do we want to compare at the end of the initiative? How will we find out if our editorial coverage made a difference? Did we get our key messages out to our target audience? Whatever method we use to measure media, we start by collecting clips. In South Africa the most-used clipping agencies are Newsclip and Monitoring SA. Both offer media statistical and content-driven media tracking across all media types, including print, broadcast and online.As PR practitioners we need to get more specific about what we want and need from clipping agencies.
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