Archive for the ‘Public Relations’ Category
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
How to Get Blog Traffic Without Really Trying:
I often refer to this blog- along with my other social media ventures- as a lab. I want to see what works, what people like, what gets you to read, respond and interact. Lately, I have had three instances that showed working methods ...
Posted in Public Relations, social media, Social Media Top 5 | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Rockstars of Social CRM- in Pictures!:
I blogged about my side impressions from this event early in the week, but Warren Sukernik put together these entertaining slides that give the perspective of someone who joined the event via Webinar:
Rockstars of Social CRMView more documents from Warren Sukernek.
Are We Setting Up ...
Posted in Public Relations, social media, Social Media Top 5 | 4 Comments »
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Social Media is Dead (?)
Geoff Livingston wrote the salacious phrase in the title to his recent blog post explaining why he was discontinuing his involvement in the Blog Potomac events. The gist I took from the post was that social media is no longer a shiny new tool, the province ...
Posted in Public Relations, Social Media Top 5, Uncategorized | 15 Comments »
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Getting Out of the Echo Chamber:
My good friend Kyle Flaherty blogged recently about getting out of the social media "echo chamber," and the resultant decrease in his activity blogging and on Twitter. There has been a lot of talk about taking social media out of the "echo chamber" so everyone ...
Posted in Public Relations, social media, Social Media Top 5 | 9 Comments »
Friday, May 29th, 2009
First, thanks to Shel Holtz for writing more extensively on this: http://bit.ly/shelsys.
The "PR Is Dead" meme ironically lives quite heartily, but this article by Fuat Kircaali, founder of Sys-Con Media and a new service called Ulitzer, goes straight to the self-parody pile.
While Shel's post fairly outlines the possible benefits ...
Posted in Public Relations, rant | 7 Comments »
Friday, May 15th, 2009
Podcamp Boston 4 is Coming, August 8-9: I'm a little disappointed that I have a partial conflict on the 8th (it's family, so I'm not exactly sad about it), but I plan to be around as much as possible outside of that. I have had some involvement in PodCamp Boston ...
Posted in Public Relations, social media, Social Media Top 5 | 2 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in politics, Public Relations | 10 Comments »
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Star Trek Screening Was Social Media Marketing? Well, it's not just the Twitter reaction, which helped and becomes more and more valuable as Twitter gains steam. But the Word of Mouth value among a passionate affinity group (Trekkers!) and a jaw-dropping stunt (switch a beloved movie, Star Trek II, and ...
Posted in Public Relations, social media, Social Media Top 5 | 2 Comments »
Friday, March 13th, 2009
It's South by Southwest Interactive this weekend, since everybody's attention span is shortened by imbibing in too much, um, Internet knowledge, I will keep things short this week.
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First, a SXSW Twitter Break (all Twitter breaks are actual Tweets), to give you a taste of the great thoughts being flung across ...
Posted in Public Relations, social media, Social Media Top 5 | 2 Comments »
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 politics, Public Relations, social media, Social Media Top 5 | 6 Comments »
