For many of the digital cognoscenti, blogging is so passé. What with Twitter, Seesmic, Qik and countless other tools that tout and tweet, who has time for that once-heralded, longer-form RSS-enabled conjecture? It’s just so outré.But for the rest of America, e.g., those outside of Silicon’s valleys and alleys, the weblog remains very much the…… Continue reading Blogging Cool?
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Target PRactice
When the blogosphere directed its full fury on the poor, unsuspecting Target corporate PR operative for her comment last week that Target doesn’t deal with bloggers, most social media-savvy marketing types were all too happy to jump on the bullseye-bashing bandwagon.Personally, I agreed that the ill-advised comment/policy was/is extremely short-sighted, if not counter-intuitive. New York…… Continue reading Target PRactice
PR Blogger Secrets
When you’re personally committed to post (almost) daily, there are times when the creative well appears to run dry. You resort to scanning your RSS reader’s PR and media folders for original posts, i.e., those that defy the blogging echo chamber.You scroll down your news portal’s home page for any interesting fodder. And finally you…… Continue reading PR Blogger Secrets
Dogged Blogger
I was scratching my head today on what to write. Could the see-saw world of Hillary Clinton stomach yet another opinion, especially after her post-Primary winning proclamation? “In the last week I have listened to you and in the process I found my own voice.” Or rather…her PR handlers finally let her find her voice…… Continue reading Dogged Blogger
Million Dollar Questions
From a freelance journalist seeking expert input, via ProfNet, for an upcoming column in the South China Morning Post. Under the headline “Blogging for Bucks,” it read: How do you make money from blogging? What’s the maximum and average? Is the market too overcrowded? Who writes the world’s best blog? What’s the best technological platform?…… Continue reading Million Dollar Questions
Microsoft’s Blog Filter
In a newly surfaced post by Joe Wilcox in eWeek’s Microsoft Watch, we’re treated to a pretty good look at how Microsoft PR has evolved.In it, the writer attempts to get his arms around the Redmond company’s migration from the mode of traditional message manager (through the filter of the trades) to an approach that…… Continue reading Microsoft’s Blog Filter
Gillmor, Winer, Scoble…
Shel Israel pointed to his Naked Conversations’ pen pal’s heartfelt post yesterday in which the inimitable blogging A-lister and general good guy Robert Scoble threw his hands up, and his keyboard down, to lament the sorry state of discourse on his blogging and twittering platforms: “Much of what I read over on that Silicon Valley…… Continue reading Gillmor, Winer, Scoble…
PR and The Public Editor
We all know that today it’s imperative to keep track of when (and how) the online conversation drifts to news (or innuendo) about a client’s brand, product and service.That said, PR people still have their work cut out for them just keeping mainstream journalists in check. If not us, on whom can one rely to…… Continue reading PR and The Public Editor
In for a Penny, In for a Pound
So, Debbie, I’ll post a comment about GSK’s new FDA-approved OTC weight-loss drug, if you send me a few samples. I can stand to lose a few.Seriously, a debate is a-brewing over Ms. Weil’s call in her popular blog for consumers to post comments on the drug’s nascent website.Apparently for some chroniclers of blogging ethics,…… Continue reading In for a Penny, In for a Pound
Angelina’s iPhone Moment
Can the blogosphere crack Apple PR’s “Blue Wall of Silence” enveloping the iPhone?That’s the question the Scobleizer (Robert Scoble) raises today after getting the brush off by an Adobe tech he probed on the status of Flash for the iPhone.WebProNews picked up the post in which Scoble relates:”‘How’s the work on the iPhone version of…… Continue reading Angelina’s iPhone Moment