Archive for May, 2007
Monday, May 28th, 2007
UPDATE: The article has appeared, and I was favored with a two-word direct quote, along with Scott Monty (zero words direct quote-- ahem), and Steve Garfield, who actually said something worth quoting....
UPDATE II: See this exchange between C.C. Chapman and the Edwards campaign. a combination of social media outreach initiative ...
Posted in politics, social media | 11 Comments »
Monday, May 28th, 2007
If you are in the Boston metro area, you have probably heard of the launch in late April of BostonNOW, a free daily paper competing with the Boston Metro. The big difference is that the paper is taking contributions from citizen journalists. In fact, I know my friend and fellow ...
Posted in politics, social media | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 21st, 2007
*Edited to bump the Key Foundation URL to buy the book
Speaking of keeping up connections, and nurturing relationships:
Many of you have a summer camp or other institution you went to as a child, youth, or young adult; for me, it was Wah-Tut-Ca Scout Reservation in Northwood, New Hampshire.
I was ...
Posted in 9/11, books, boy scouts | 4 Comments »
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
My thoughts on this are not completely formed, but I am throwing this out there to see what comments I get.
In today's Sunday New York Times Arts section was a huge story on the Summer of Love-- 1967 (login required). The article outlined how reenactments and celebrations will largely be ...
Posted in music | 1 Comment »
Saturday, May 19th, 2007
When someone you know dies, it is natural to make it about you--how well you know the person, what you talked about, what you did with them.
All I will do here is say I wish I had known Lauren Terrazzano better than I had. I certainly should have.
By the time ...
Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Just posted episode 16 of PRobecast, Topaz Partners' weekly PR-related podcast
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This week, Adam Zand and I discuss:
Engadget runs with a bad tip that affects Apple's stock price. Are we ready to hold new media to old media standards?
Adam attended the Advertising, Marketing & PR Industry Diversity Job Fair and ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
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Work projects should always be this much fun. This video is part of a project to promote the Tubes file sharing software as a last-minute Mother's Day gift. I think the Mom is letting the son off easy; she had plenty of room to lay on a big fat guilt ...
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
This week's episode 14 of the podcast I help produce, PRobecast from Topaz Partners is up.
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This week's panel, Tim Allik, Doug Haslam and Rob Capra, discuss:
PR Newswire and Umbria team up to bring blog tracking to wire service customers
PC World's editor in chief resigns. Is advertiser influence on ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
One of the joys of following Twitter has been following the Zombie Attack storyline. Twitter has actually spawned a new form of storytelling. Well, maybe it's not completely new- I have no idea-- but it's an ingenious use of the new medium to keep our attention and actually be eager ...
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