I read a nice quick and dirty article about “blogger relations” in Entreprenuer magazine yesterday by columnist Guy Kawasaki. Although I don’t think that bloggers need any ’special’ relationship rules (because we should just treat them like journalists and real people) I do think that Guy’s list gives a great rundown of the common sense [...]
I wanted to give WNYC a shout-out for replying to my whiny email about missing the beginning of Morning Edition yesterday. Within an hour of my inquiry, a member of their Listener Services team sent me this terrific reply. She gave me permission to post it, so long as I didn’t give her kudos by [...]
This morning I noticed that WNYC cut the second hour of Morning Edition (8am – 9am) and replaced it with a new show, The Takeaway, which usually only airs at that time on AM 820.
I’m hoping to confirm that this was a one-time offense, if I can get someone from WNYC’s listener services department to [...]
Here are the articles we discussed as a team at our staff meeting this week. Enjoy!
T. Boone Pickens on Yahoo, Techland, May 27, 2008
ID-Protection Ads Come Back to Bite Pitchman, Yahoo News, May 22, 2008
Thinking Outside the Box, Digital Outsider, May 23, 2008
New Therapy Shortens Breast Cancer Treatment, MLive.com, May 27, 2008
The [...]
A high-tech umbrella from Pileus has everything a tech geek needs – Internet access, large screen surface, a built-in camera, a motion sensor, GPS and a digital compass. It’s two main functions are social photo-sharing and 3D map navigation…uh, keeping you dry in the rain while looking like a total geek.
According to Pileus, [...]
Here are the articles we discussed as a team at our staff meeting this week. Enjoy!
Brondell’s Swash Can Turn Almost Any Toilet Into A Bidet. But Will Americans Leave Toilet Paper Behind?, Inc., April 2008
Deflating A Myth, AdWeek, May 12, 2008
The Buzz On Blogs, Sporting News, May 5, 2008
Vitamin D Tied To [...]
If you weren’t lucky enough to squeeze into the PRSA-NY Blogger Social event last night, here are some pictures and video to help you get the feel.
It was a great event by all accounts with more than 80+ PR professionals and bloggers enjoying a combination of good conversation and premium liquor. The event was organized [...]
Remember Chris Anderson’s PR blacklist? Gina Trapani, editor of Lifehacker, has started her own PR Spammers wiki. We’re not on it — probably because we haven’t pitched her, as most of our clients are B2B — but it otherwise reads like the shortlist of tech PR firms you might put together for an RFP.
Before Gina [...]