Wherever you are in the world, you’d have to have been completely disconnected from everything during this past week if you have not heard about Madeleine McCann, the little British girl abducted in Portugal. It continues to be the lead story on TV news broadcasts here in the UK, and…
Content summary: Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with sketch), pictured, is guest co-host; Shel’s in Chicago and sends in two interviews: with Dave Kligman, AAA, and measurement guru Katie Paine; the podcasting book goes to press; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; PRWeb offers new social media tool for press releases; the…
Today the Daily Telegraph newspaper launched My Telegraph, a free service that enables readers to set up their own blog. An interesting move – a first by a national UK newspaper? – which is a good example of how a mainstream medium can use social media as a means of…
It’s been a long time coming, but the content of “How to Do Everything with Podcasting” is about to go onto the printing presses and emerge in a few weeks’ time as an actual book. This is the book about podcasting that my podcasting partner Shel Holtz and I have been…
Content summary: Shel in Chicago for the Ragan Corporate Communicators Conference; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; social networks for communicators from Ragan and Melcrum; no more wasting time with PR agencies, says ResearchTalk podcast; LinkedIn changes invitation policy; companies’ IT departments blocking Libsyn; Technorati now shows blog authority ranking;…
New research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project has some fascinating statistics on how Americans use technology. According to A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users (PDF download), half of all American adults are only occasional users of modern information gadgetry, while 8% are avid participants in…
Last week, Chicago-based Ragan Communications launched MyRagan.com, a free service aimed at communicators around the world that’s a mix of social network, knowledge and information resource. It’s captured a lot of imaginations and got off to a cracking start. When I signed up last week, there were about 250 members. Today,…
Films about the Second World War war don’t do much for me. I can count on one hand such films that have made an impact, the most recent being Flags of Our Fathers which I saw on a plane journey in February. Then I saw Black Book on DVD this…
