Archive for February, 2009
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
I'm fond of the "just do it" school of social media. A lot of these tools are both pre-mainstream and cheap/free, so experimentation is a low risk venture.
For that reason I try not to be too quick to criticize companies and people who don't do it "correctly." Look at ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
I'm a big user of Twitter - as many of you know, since the main traffic driver for this blog is Twitter - but I have probably not blogged about it so much lately-- I have mentioned it and surrounding issues a bit, sure, but not about why and how ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
After reading Ike Pigott's article on Media Bullseye, "It's Nothing Personal," (http://mediabullseye.com/…onal.html), in which he mock-apologized for not following the too-many blogs in his feed reader, I asked myself- will RSS fail as a consumer application? It may.
- RSS is too complicated to explain, even if it's "really simple." Is ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Press Releases From a Journalist's POV
Daryl James, a former newspaper professional, lays out some very simple tips on what should go into a news release to get an editor's or reporter's attention. Some of them are beyond common sense, but always worth repeating. Setting aside the fact that the ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
I have been reading the Boston Globe's series on Ted Kennedy and have a few thoughts:
(http://www.boston.com/…ls/kennedy)
- Flogging a book with a serial in the paper is old school. Still effective?
- Did this sell papers in the way, say, Obama inaugural special editions did? Will we see more if it does?
- ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Taking part in Journchat Monday evening on Twitter (http://journchat.info/, http://twitter.com/journchat), one question came up that didn't speak to PR people on the surface; did media hype make the economic situation worse? My answer is yes, "pack journalism" hypes any situation, including wars and perceptions of candidates, out of whack.
But it ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
The discussion about the future of newspapers isn't inside baseball anymore; it's kitchen table discussion. As we all wonder what will happen to the dailies, and talk about the Detroit Free Press going to three-day delivery only and the Christian Science Monitor (a client) funneling print to a weekly, I ...
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
The Pan-Mass Challenge is still more than five months away, but I have had an eventful couple of weeks in preparation.
Fundraising is Off to a Great Start: Thanks to some very generous folks (who are probably reading this), I am actually ahead of my fundraising pace of last year. I ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Marketer Sounds off About a Reporter's Rudeness, Acts Surprised When Said Reporter Unleashes a Barrage of Verbal Abuse A few lessons from the very public nasty words between marketer ("Don't call me a PR person") April Dunford and National Post reporter David George-Cosh:
- I agree with Jennifer Leggio of ZDNet ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Quick thought from listening to the great "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast (http://marketingovercoffee.com)/. Christopher Penn told of an older woman who said she doesn't read blogs on her Kindle, but reads the Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com).
Wait, isn't that a blog? Apparently not. Same goes for podcasts, e-newsletters and more. Not only is ...
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