Category: public relations

USA: [insert tagline here]

Make the Logo Bigger suggests that it may be time the United States gets a tagline, because maybe it would help our global image.

Obama wants to repair the image of America abroad, and well, why not break the mold and go with a tagline to help win hearts and minds. We’d do the same thing with a new ad campaign, which is essentially what this is, no? Besides, if states can have them, why can’t the country as a whole?

MTLB has gotten some good suggestions in the comments. A few of my favorites:

The Empire You Trust

I can’t believe it’s not democracy

Defending World Champs

Home of the bailouts

Ones I might suggest:

Got democracy?

E Stimulus Unum

It tastes like democracy, but it’s not

Home of the fightin’ feds

But as one commenter suggested, “anything we come up with will get killed in focus groups anyway.” Swap “focus groups” for “committees,” and you have higher ed marketing at its finest.

This TV show promises to be a real blast

[blatant PR ploy]

Tonight’s premiere episode of The Detonators, a new Discovery Channel series featuring Missouri S&T’s resident explosives expert and one of his former students (now a prof at the University of Kentucky), promises to be a real blast.

The program begins at 7 p.m. Rolla Standard Time (otherwise known as Central Standard Time) today (Wednesday, Jan. 28) and will air every Wednesday at the same time. This is a big deal for our campus — getting national media exposure for one of our professors, one of our alumni, and our university’s new name, all in one 13-week prime-time cable TV series.

So, record American Idol if you must, but don’t miss this debut of Paul Worsey and Braden Lusk as they burst onto the television scene.

If you can’t wait until the show’s premiere, here’s a little promo to whet your appetite:

Watch The Detonators blow up a car at the S&T Experimental Mine.

Who says engineering is boring? The Detonators are out to blow up that stereotype.

[/batant PR ploy]