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HOLY CRAP!!! (Real Time News Power of Twitter)

It has been much talked about, but I got to experience the real time news power of Twitter first- hand last Thursday when that plane went down in the Hudson River. I was in the middle of sitting in on … Continue reading

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Your News Crystal Ball in Tech PR

Good PR is about being fast, smart and creative.  You want to get a sense of where the media will go next, and be there waiting and ready to help them build their stories, a step ahead of everyone else. … Continue reading

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Enterprise Reporting for Dummies

The No Train, No Gain (inactive) site website – a training resource for journalists – has a page on enterprise reporting, a sort of “how to” guide that I thought my tech PR readers would find interesting.   I first saw … Continue reading

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Copywriter’s Alchemy: Turning Mud into Gold

At a dinner party over the break, the husbands retired to the living room after the meal and sat in front of a cozy fire while the wives continued chatting in the dining room. The conversation amongst the men turned … Continue reading

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The Revolution will be Tweeted (“Your Nation has Been Disgraced on Twitter!”)

My news radar has been tuned to “Twitter + PR” for some time now.   As this blog has maintained, Twitter is quickly being co-opted by forward thinking communications professionals everywhere. It is only a matter of time before your client … Continue reading

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Catching up on things: Social Searching & Graphing Tools, etc.

It has been a nice couple of weeks, relatively quiet at work and the long weekends rounded out the year and softened the impact of launching into 2009.  I used my days off as an opportunity to relax, spend time … Continue reading

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PR Predictions and Advice for 2009

– PR to Thrive in 2009 – Newsflash: Venerable Press Release Crushes Naysayers Unlike many others, I am looking forward to good things for PR in 2009.   True, traditional media and even online media are struggling (the latter, based on … Continue reading

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Bernie Madoff, Scoundrel and Master Brand Builder

Last Friday’s post was about Trust, namely trust and corporate blogs.  I continue with the theme of trust, this time within the context of word of mouth (WOM) marketing and brand building You can call Bernie Madoff a lot of … Continue reading

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Conquering Information Sprawl in Tech PR

The NY Times had a nice roundup of tools and strategies to conquer information sprawl last week, Staying Informed without Drowning in Data, by Jenna Wortham.   At the end of this post I list the links of the various … Continue reading

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Why People Don’t Trust Corporate Blogs and What to Do About It

There has been some buzz about a Forrester report’s  conclusion that people do not necessarily trust corporate blogs.   A number of tech PR agencies have chimed in, and there was an article just yesterday on IT Business Edge about this.  … Continue reading

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