Content summary: Discussion: can new PR professionals build a media contact list through social media?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; kerfuffle at the Medill School of Journalism; social network updates: LinkedIn goes mobile, Financial Times launches social networks; can sincere blogging overcome an error in judgement?; FriendFeed tells you…
The twin crafts of PR and journalism have an uneasy alliance, it seems to me. Both need each other yet it’s too often an uncomfortable relationship with the pot calling the kettle black too much of the time. Back in April 2006, I wrote an opinion piece on what I…
Content summary: Welcome to Podfinder listeners; FIR Interview on GMnext posted; discussion: how blogging can connect or widen the gap between employers and employees; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; DataPortability.org launches logo contest as response to legal pressure; what is news?; shizzolate your Twitters with Snoop Dogg; can opportunists…
BrandRepublic reports that the Financial Times’ conferences arm has launched a pay-to-join membership forum so that media and technology executives working in the digital, new media, mobile and telecoms sectors can network. Not only a forum for people in this business sector: the FT is also launching two other forums…
It has been six weeks since the launch of GMnext, General Motors’ ambitious communication effort aimed at tighter integration into the social media space and earnest, comprehensive engagement in conversation with customers and other constituents. In this FIR Interview, Shel Holtz talked with GM’s Scot Keller and Christopher Barger about…
Well, perhaps not a typo exactly, although the Wikipedia definition says common usage of the word ‘typo’ extends to mean errors in grammar and word form. That’s what we have here. Take a look at the words on the labels of this (rather tasty) hot Belgian chocolate drink, made by…
Content summary: Podcast Alley voting system now working again; discussion: the legitimacy of print on demand; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; description meta tags; the influence of employee bloggers in corporate acquisitions; successful marketing campaigns on social networks; start-up brings Second Life to mobile phones; Dan York reports; listeners’…
An interesting stat posted on the Twitter blog shows which are the top ten countries with the most people using the Twitter social network as determined from Twitter’s public timeline. That’s how I describe Twitter, incidentally – a social network, not the original descriptor ‘micro blogging tool.’ My perception of…
