A tweet from @ODwyerPR caught my eye this morning. It linked to a Forbes.com-contributed piece by New York PR pro Lindsey Green originally published in The Daily Muse, a site that describes itself as “a rapidly growing community of women who believe that kicking ass and taking names is all part of the job.” The […]
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Blog Maverick It turns out that my post last week about item #11 on Mark Cuban’s list of 12 Rules for Startups — “Never Hire a PR Firm” — set off a firestorm that prompted a more nuanced response from Mr. Cuban. In his expanded view, Mr. Cuban did not disavow his disdain for the PR
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Maverick Mark Cuban That NBA champ, author, and billionaire blogging maverick Mark Cuban offered up some mostly sound advice to the startup community this week in a post titled “Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules for Startups” on Entrepreneur.com. I say mostly because his #11-ranked recommendation read as follows: “Never hire a PR firm. A public relations
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This week’s edition of Video Views captures notable quotables from both coasts, including Mark Zuckerberg, David Remnick, Kara Swisher, Steven B. Johnson, Jeff Pulver, Gary Vaynerchuk and others… To start, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher sets the hand-held stage for Facebook’s inaugural f8 conference for application developers, held in Santa Clara: From the same conference, we get
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I had the good fortune to attend the thought-provoking “Future of Media” panel, hosted by MediaPost and sponsored by AOL and others, in New York City last week as part of Advertising Week. Featured (from left to right) were: Mark Cuban (HD Net, Dallas Mavs), Vivien Schiller (NPR), Bob Garfield (Ad Age, NPR), Martha Stewart,
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One can’t help but notice the brouhaha that Malcolm Gladwell tipped with his prominent dis-endorsement of Chris Anderson’s latest book Free. His New Yorker magazine review of the timely tome, which portends an age where all media content shall be set free, prompted many in the Twittersphere to weigh in (mostly in favor of Mr.
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So by now, you’ve read the unfortunate news that the SEC has charged Mark Cuban with insider trading. The original maverick who made a gazillion dollars by selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! and taking the money to buy the Dallas Mavs, today comfortably resides at the intersection of media, technology and sports. This blogger has admirably
One of the older case studies I like to cite in my public talks on the changed PR landscape entails citizen empowerment and the hatchet job The New York Times did on Blog Maverick Mark Cuban several years ago. Instead of sulking or demanding a printed retraction, Cuban took to his keyboard to cut and
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No. I’m not talking about “Client-9,” but rather A-list blogger Mark Cuban whose actions this week prompted a letter of protest to NBA Commish David Stern from the Society of Professional Journalists. Mr. Cuban’ decided to ban full-time bloggers from his Dallas Maverick’s locker room. The feisty blogger explains his rationale (sort of) in a
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Other than the fun of sharing one’s opinion (whether it’s sought after or not), the beauty of blogging often lies in the ability to caress, after the fact, how one’s portrayed in the formerly indelible mainstream media. We all know what happened after a brash Cubby-seeking maverick took issue with his less-than-positive profile by The
