The Gong Blog

PR and the selfie seen ‘round the world

​I love watching the Academy Awards, from the red carpet to Best Picture. And I think we’ve all come to the consensus that the 86th annual Academy Awards, Ellen’s performance in particular, were particularly well-done and entertaining. Ellen did a terrific job of engaging her audience in the auditorium and,...

Dear VCU MASC 323

First of all thanks so much for reaching out to us. All 126 of you have done a great job of reaching out to us at THP as part of your assignment. That aggressiveness (I will get back to that in a minute) will serve you well in your future...

Everything is Awesome: HodgePodge for Feb. 28

Each week we bring you a few interesting stories we’ve read and discussed around the office this week. We call it the HodgePodge, because we’re clever like that. Parental advisory The Jerky Boys were immature and crude… and they influenced an entire generation of comedy before breaking up in the...

PR lessons from Sochi’s Olympic disasters

I usually don’t watch much of the Winter Olympics, other than figure skating, but this year I paid much closer attention. There was a lot of hype surrounding the Olympics this winter; however, much of it wasn’t about the games themselves. Instead, headlines surrounding the Olympics focused on what was...

Five Questions: HodgePodge for Feb. 21

​Each week we bring you interesting stories we’ve read and shared around the office. Today, we have five articles that answer interesting questions. 1 It’s pretty common for people to describe music as a type of language, but what if that gets it backwards? 2 Why is North at the...