Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
The April 15 Tax Day tea parties were a great example of grass roots, viral organization to move thousands of people (whether you believe the reported attendance or not) to do something.
But here's the problem; what were they doing? In PR, we counsel clients to have consistent messages that ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
A Newspaper Goes Dark, with Dignity (?): The Rocky Mountain News produced its last edition Friday, after the sudden announcement that it would do so after the Scripps company was unable to find a buyer. Is this the beginning of the real end for print newspapers? I'll defer to true ...
Posted in Public Relations, politics, social media | 6 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Movies, Public Relations, politics, social media | 4 Comments »
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Goodbye Pownce, We Hardly Knew Ye - Remember when people were begging and scrambling for beta invitations to Pownce? As a hardcore Twitter user, I did appreciate the differences that the Pownce service presented: threaded conversation, the ability to share small files. But the core application was still quick, short ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
We all love blog tag! Ok, maybe we pretend we don't sometimes, but we love being linked to, and we love sharing info about ourselves.
So, I would like to start a blog tag experiment inspired by a client, Brijit, which provides 100-word abstracts of long-form content, or as they put ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Some of the strangest random possessions have the best stories behind them. My wife grew up in Boston's South End, her family moving in back in 1968. To get a partial idea of the South End in the 1960's and 1970's have a peek at J. Anthony Lukas' celebrated book ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Here's a bit from my vote today in the Super Tuesday primary in Precinct 1, Newton, MA. I thought I would give a little "slice of the process" and see how it came out. It was a real pleasure speaking with the volunteers; sorry Hillary supporters, but where were your ...
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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 ...
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