I go back and forth about whether this site should be purely professional or partially personal. Most people seem to think the most effective way to have a blog is to keep them separate and stick to a certain topic. I understand the reasoning; however, I do not stick to a certain topic and I am not purely professional.

Something that seems lost in the public relations profession is a sense of genuineness. Lately, the public relations I have encountered seems less about the passion for real and effective communication and more about a pretense of popularity. As a person who strives to be real and really is incapable of being anything less than that, the PR professionals I have met touting their own skills to other colleagues, PR professionals, agencies, companies, etc., is getting a little annoying - to the point that I have considered leaving the industry.