I made my first visit to the Reform Club in London last Tuesday evening to be part of a panel discussion on creating and maintaining image, organized by the City Women’s Network. A thoroughly enjoyable evening with about 40 members of the network. Nearly all women (no surprise!) as I…
For as many talker-uppers of Second Life, there are equal numbers of talker-downers. But no one has talked down as visually, humorously and wittily as Canadian blogger Darren Barefoot has with this satirical view. Nice one, Darren! No one could ever accuse you of drinking any Kool-Aid. Linden Lab sees…
Content summary: The Bay Area’s Third Thursday group, meeting at Shine SF in San Francisco, heard a panel discussion about the Social Media Press Release. The panel discussion was led by Chris Heuer, and featured Shel Holtz, Brian Solis, Tom Foremski, and special guest, Joel Tesch from BusinessWire. At the…
In this edition of For Immediate Release book reviews, Neville and Shel review Second Life: The Official Guide. This book is a collaborative work by six writers with expert knowledge of Second Life, the three-dimensional virtual world that today has over 2.6 million registered users. In Second Life: The Official…
A very public kerfuffle has erupted in the UK during this week over the Celebrity Big Brother reality TV show that’s extended right up the political chain to Prime Minister Tony Blair. Charges of racism and bigotry have been leveled at some of the minor celebrities participating in the show…
If you run WordPress as your blog platform, you have some interesting choices at the moment. Version 2.0.6 was released two weeks ago, and then some bugs were found and a workaround provided. Version 2.0.7 was released a few days ago with those bugs fixed. And version 2.1 – a…
Around 40 people showed up yesterday for the first of our coffee with crayon sessions at crayonville Island in Second Life. This is the weekly get-together where everyone can discuss literally anything related to new marketing. With no formal agenda, the session could have been a damp squib. Instead, it…
Content summary: Coffee with crayon in Second Life; discussions prompted by listeners – a journalist who doesn’t care about reader feedback, engaging all employees within an organization, dealing with podcast catch up, the goal of the Microsoft/Edelman Vista blogger campaign; Terry Fallis podcasts his new novel; Dan York introduces his new…
