For the first time in quite a few weeks, I checked in to Second Life today and spent a half hour visiting a few places of interest (including CC Chapman’s digs – nice development). As this was my first visit […]
Month: September 2006
Could the good name and reputation of Hewlett-Packard be tarred with a similar brush to that of the likes of Enron and WorldCom? It’s looking a distinct possibility if the board room shenanigans that have ripped through the firm’s leadership […]
If you’re an IABC member, you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a new communication channel though which you can hear about plans and happenings directly from the association’s leadership. A new podcast series called Cafe2Go launched last week. See […]
Content summary: New FIR interview posted; IABC begins new podcast series; new Skylook features; RIM launches multimedia Blackberry; the Hewlett-Packard boardroom soap opera gets serious; SNCR Awards deadline extended; the Adam Curry and Joseph Jaffe kerfuffle; David Phillips reports on […]
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Neville enjoyed a 14-minute conversation with Pia de Gysser, CIO at Agria Insurance, an animal and crop insurer based in Stockholm, Sweden, recorded at the IBC Euroforum conference “The Web of […]
Two hours to kill as I sit here doing email and now blogging at Gate 8 in Arlanda airport, Stockholm, while I wait for my SAS flight back to Amsterdam. Yesterday, I had the real pleasure of meeting Hans Kullin […]
Sitting in the audience at the IBC Euroforum conference in Stockholm. The first session after the lunch break – Tommy Sundstrom talking about web design and usability. The room is packed, hardly a spare seat going. The conference certainly seems […]
Content summary: The M Show‘s John Wall guest co-hosts; One-Minute News: advertisers flee “Survivor,” the rise of character blogs, Danny Sullivan leaving Search Engine Watch, Radio Shack conducts an email layoff, introduction to Gigadial and Podcast Peer Awards, Podshow touts […]
How do you get bloggers to write about your product? asks Dave Taylor. He answers the question in a well-written post in which he describes his own experience as a blogger pitched by the maker of a product. I like […]
When I uploaded a bunch of photos to Flickr today from my recent New York trip, I took a look at the new geo-tagging functionality Flickr announced last week. If connecting your photos to others’ and enabling other people to […]
This past week has been one heck of a week on the work front. Total immersion in a PR project which has produced positive results on a global scale that exceeded even my most fanciful expectations. I don’t usually discuss client work in this blog, but maybe I’ll talk more about it at another time.
So how’s the online world been doing while my attention was elsewhere?
Well, to start with, I’ve missed some conversation developments here in the blog. I’ll try to catch up with everyone soon.
Among the work frenzy, I did manage to record last Thursday’s edition of the FIR podcast, show #168. Shel was away traveling so it was a solo effort including all the stuff Shel usually does with file uploading, RSS feeds, etc. The show went up pretty late, after midnight in fact.
My original plan was to present the show with guest co-presenter CC Chapman. CC does the Accident Hash music podcast and Managing The Gray, an excellent marketing podcast. We were lined up to go and then I couldn’t do it. But it was tremendous to include CC’s music recommendation. Great song (and intro), CC!
One of the discussion topics in FIR #168 was Second Life and the disturbing activities in the virtual world by the Second Life Liberation Army. I see that Chris Clarke has “officially had it” with the continuing FIR talk about SL, saying he thinks that the topic should have been addressed in a humorous manner. And Owen Lystrup has a comment on the podcast blog expressing some incredulity at our commentary.
I’ll be talking about Second Life again in this Monday’s show. Some listeners (D-Ring PR, for instance) have their own views about SL on which they want to hear commentary in FIR from the business and communication perspectives. Happy to oblige!
I started out this morning catching up with my RSS feeds. All I’ve really paid attention to in the RSS area this past week has been the various watchlists I’ve had running re the PR project I mentioned. Such an excellent tool to keep tabs on who’s saying what, in such an effortless way.
First up – a thoughtful commentary by Doc Searls about the Cluetrain Manifesto.
Content summary: Wikipedia and PR firms’ participation; New York Times blocks online content in UK; why marketing should make the user manuals; military disruption in Second Life; new social media service from Jupiter Research; Dell’s battery recall: issue known for […]