Whether journalists are ready or not for the social media press release, the PR community now has a great opportunity to thoroughly discuss the concept and try to get some traction with the whole idea of evolving the press release into something far more valuable than purely a vehicle for…
Here’s a good example of an eye-catching headline: Tony Blair starts blogging… This title of a post on Simon Collister’s eDemocracy Update blog certainly grabbed my attention as I scanned the headlines in my RSS reader. The reality is different, of course. The Prime Minister isn’t blogging at all; it’s…
One of the things I love about WordPress is the user community and the vast array of knowledge out there to help you with literally anything to do with your blog and making it do what you want it to do. The community has certainly been extremely helpful to me…
Content summary: New FIR interview posted; meeting FIR listeners in Second Life; Marketing Sherpa award winners announced; podcasts of Amsterdam conference coming; trust and reputation follow-up: Cadbury and British Airways; Dan York reports (Canada Day, hockey and the World Cup, badges at wordblog.net, LinkedIn public profiles, is spam killing the conversation?);…
If you installed Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 when Microsoft opened up the beta for general public testing, note that beta 3 is now available for download from today. The list of changes from beta 2 to beta 3 make it look like an update definitely worth installing, especially for…
President Putin’s right-hand man says that Russia is more than fit to host the G8 summit, The Times reports: The leading Kremlin spin-doctor [Vladislav Surkov] rebuffed Western critics yesterday with a robust defence of President Putin’s democratic credentials in the run-up to the G8 summit in St Petersburg. […] Mr Surkov’s…
Much talk in the past 24 hours over another key employee leaving Microsoft and going to Google. While most focus is on that, I found this commentary on Mini-Microsoft of more interest, discussing the broader effects in the Microsoft organization with its focus on restructuring and the impacts on employees: […]…
Lest you think I’m addicted to the latest flavour of Kool-Aid with my recent commentaries about Second Life, this post isn’t to do with the fun times you can spend in world (see, I’m getting to know the lingo). This is about business opportunities with Second Life and the real world.…
