NYC’s Time Warner CenterIn compiling the questions for this week’s much-shared “PR 3.0 Questionnaire,” I did some research to see where various blogs and news sites ranked by unique monthly visitors in relation to one another. I hadn’t done this exercise in a while, but pretty much assumed that Boing Boing no longer topped the…… Continue reading Business Insider Ignites New York
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Rock Star Founders
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (photo: Reuters) A much buzzed-about piece in wunderkind Justin Smith’s The Atlantic titled “Steve Jobs’s Law” explains “Why Founders Make the Best Leaders.” It was accompanied by an iconic and familiar image of Mr. Jobs wowing the cult of Mac at one of his soon-to-be legendary product launch events.Author James Kwak writes: “Still, the conventional…… Continue reading Rock Star Founders
Friday’s Video Views
What is Google in 2011?On its blog this week, Google posted this video that attempts to capture its essence. Nicely done, I’d say. Why I Hate FacebookAs if Facebook didn’t have the Google juggernaut breathing down its neck with its boffo launch of Google+, a PR bi-product of a potentially competitive social network surfaces those…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
When Twitter Isn’t Enough
A couple of weeks back, I stopped by PBS MediaShift’s first social mixer in NYC. It was held at a restaurant in the East Village, a vibrant neighborhood once known for the local squatters in Tompkins Square Park. I enjoyed seeing SF-based editor Mark Glaser and his New York-based marketing lead Dorian Benkoil whom I…… Continue reading When Twitter Isn’t Enough
Friday’s Video Views
News Certified?Over the years, I’ve seen countless efforts to bridge the respective, yet often symbiotic needs of PR peeps and journalists. Journalists seek independent expertise during the reporting process, while PR people can be a reasonable source for such expertise. Rare is the platform that succeeds in pulling journalists to a site for this qualified…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
Conversation M̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ Declining
Over the years, this blog has examined how ordinary citizens and eventually bona fide newsmakers — from NGOs to CEOs to politicos — have the capacity to create, manage and syndicate original content, in effect giving them mostly unchecked control over their “media” personas. The advent of blogs, sponsored Facebook sites, Twitter feeds and YouTube…… Continue reading Conversation M̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ Declining
Friday’s Video Views
For the Love of JackLongtime PR industry chronicler Jack O’Dwyer shown here doing his best imitation of Russell Crowe (they look alike, right?) as Prof. John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind.” Except this didn’t happen at Princeton University, but at the recently completed PRSA Annual Conference in our nation’s capital. This Just In: iPhone for…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
Friday’s Video Views
Eisenberg on ZuckerbergThe Social Network’s long and much buzzed about ride to the nation’s movie theaters ends today (though countless outlets jumped the review embargo. Was there one?) As predicted, critics have gone boffo with Rolling Stone’s venerable movie guy Peter Travers handing out four stars and glowing words from which SONY will create a…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
Much Ado About Zuckerberg
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I found Mark Zuckerberg’s character, as deftly played by Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network,” to be somewhat appealing in a strange way. Jarvis, on the other hand, calls the film “anti-social.”Aside from his weirdly contorted smile, social insecurities, lack of personal empathy, and that misogynist opening scene, Zuckerberg…… Continue reading Much Ado About Zuckerberg
College Rankings Game
A week or so ago, Forbes pre-empted the release of U.S. News’ annual college rankings guide by anointing Williams College, a small liberal arts college in Williamstown, MA, as the numero uno college in the nation.Now if only my hometown baseball team, owned by one of Williams’ more celebrated (and recently deceased) alumni, could retain…… Continue reading College Rankings Game