Overflow from today’s FIR #371: News That Fits What should PR students be taught about social media? The teacher: Teaching social media; the student: What should we be taught about social media? Listen to this FIR Cut: [display_podcast] Download FIR […]
Month: August 2008
Content summary: Shel’s at the Ragan/eBay conference and on to New Media Expo; PR Week blog contest update; Dan York reports on WordPress 2.6, trusting the cloud, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits – focus […]
I detest pop-ups on websites, especially the ones that so obtrusively steal your mouse whenever you move it across a web page and unexpectedly pop up something in a window. Ads are the worst although those pop-ups with either RSS […]
Dell certainly pushed the envelope yesterday in a press conference to launch a new line of Latitude laptop computers. The event took place in San Francisco, linked to media events in London and New Delhi, and with people online following […]
The new website of Number 10 Downing Street – residence and office of the Prime Minister – launched yesterday. It was announced on Twitter by the Number 10 communications team, an apt demonstration of the clear focus on content sharing […]
Our next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio call-in show is set for Saturday, August 23 September 20*, at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, and 6pm UK time. We’ll discuss the question raised on the blog eGov.au: "I’ve often wondered about the […]
I really like seeing how organizations experiment with social media, especially those who keep on pushing those envelopes and invite us to get involved and see what happens during such experimentation. Like Dell. Today at 9am PDT (5pm UK), Dell […]
Content summary: Appeal to a listener in Ireland; update on voting in PR Week blog contest; Michael Netzley in Singapore discusses Web 2.0 coverage of the Olympic Games and North Korea’s plan to join the world wide web; the Media […]
Much has been written in recent months about the allure of Twitter and why people stick with it through thick and thin. Twitter has no shortage of rival micro-blogging services – Pownce, Plurk, Identi.ca and Jaiku are the obvious ones […]
The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world. During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing […]
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; a conversation with Shel in Washington, DC; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits – orchestrating social media: in business, somebody needs to do it, Wrapit plus Facebook equals angry […]
In my car this morning, I heard a 30-second ad on my local radio station 2-Ten FM from British Airways which talked about the average time experienced by specific passengers when they checked in for a flight at Heathrow’s Terminal […]