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Acquisitions can be a fun — and scary — time for communications pros. I remember during my days at 24/7 Media, at the height of the dot com boom, we acquired nine companies during my tenure. Nine!
At the time, not all of the companies brought into the fold were also brought in to our existing [...]
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Yesterday morning, I sent an email around to the team with a link to TechCrunch’s April Fools tech PR roundup. My initial reaction to the post was, Oof. We missed the boat. Then I scrolled. And scrolled. And scrolled. I didn’t take time to tally them up, but there are dozens, if not hundreds, of [...]
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Last week, I read Chris Brogan’s post about Google suspiciously freezing accounts without warning. It made chills run down my spine. Cloud computing is not for the faint of heart!
Cut to this afternoon. I’ve been getting the same annoying message for the past 20 minutes:
I checked, but so far it looks like it’s just me…and [...]
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Just read an interesting piece by Don Reisinger in Ars Technica. In Opinion: How Microsoft can turn the negative Vista PR tide, Reisinger argues Microsoft’s biggest Vista failure was not putting the proper PR push behind it.
I can’t remember reading one positive article on Windows Vista since its launch. Of the deluge of negative press [...]
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NY Governor Elliot Spitzer has been linked to a sex ring as a client. The story broke in today’s New York Times and has been the subject of news reports and tabloid gossip throughout the day. His behavior, although scandalous, is not uncommon. All too often, people in power seem to feel that they are above [...]
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I confess I have never been to South by Southwest. However, the beauty of any conference attended by obsessive bloggers is that you can follow the fun online wherever you are.
Yesterday afternoon, I noticed a few tweets regarding Sarah Lacy’s keynote interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Sarah, a tech reporter for BusinessWeek, was universally [...]
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Why do we do it? Why do we allow ourselves to be beaten to a pulp, used and abused and mercilessly left for dead on hold by sadistic customer service representatives from companies that we pay good money for their bad service? In the last few weeks, I have experienced an inordinate amount of appalling [...]
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I wrote an Op-Ed piece for Bulldog Reporter’s Barks & Bites section. The article examined the Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of social networking site Facebook, apology to its members for the way the company handled the introduction of its controversial advertising platform, Beacon. Read the full article here.
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My mom alerted me to a data breach involving the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance (LOFSA) and their back-up provider, Iron Mountain. While news of the breach is quickly being spread in state and local news outlets, the story is not getting widespread pickup. According to the AP story:
The case was lost Sept. 19 [...]
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It’s been interesting to follow and read the many (mostly annoyed) reactions in blogs or online articles since Apple announced its price drop of $200 for the iPhone on September 5th, just 2 months after its launch. And to add insult to injury, Apple also announced it will be dumping its low-end 4-Gbyte counterpart.
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