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 Cut MP3: Teaching PR students social media (6:53) If you…
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 on social networking with Movable Type upgrade, visual trickery at…
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 text or a screenshot of another website or blog run…
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 live webcast – and commenting and asking questions in…
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 that peppers the site which includes links to Number 10…
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 strength of the relationship between an organisation’s commitment to internal…
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 is holding a press conference to introduce a new generation…
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 Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits – SNCR report…
