From WordPress developer Alex King, probably best known as the creator of many useful and popular WordPress plugins, this looks like a great idea: WordPress HelpCenter is a real-time support center for all things WordPress. We can answer simple questions about how to create categories and tags, how to use…
(This post was updated during April 15 as events evolved: scroll down to see additional commentary.) A public relations disaster of potentially epic proportions is brewing for Domino’s Pizza following the antics of two employees and a video on YouTube. You can read the gruesome details at Consumerist but, concisely,…
FIR Live #13 Saturday, April 25, 2009 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm UK Listen in Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb explored both sides of the increasingly popular business activity of monitoring social media. He wrote: It’s kind of a modern day horror story, isn’t it? Web 2.0’s potential benefit…
I’m taking part in an interesting experiment to create a business book entirely via 140-character comments posted on Twitter. It’s the brainchild of Toby Bloomberg: So what’s a Twitter-book you may be asking? It’s a book written using Twitter as platform and distribution channel. Social Media Marketing GPS #smgps is…
Content summary: 2009 FIR Listener Survey launches; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on April 25; FIR Listener Contest awaiting first entrant; Michael Netzley reports on digital media in Cambodia; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Eric Schwartzman interviews Korn/Ferry International’s Don Spetner on job hunting in a recession; News…
[Update May 6: The survey closed on May 1 and the preliminary results have been published today – see The influence of the global FIR community and downloadable presentation from Slideshare.] Three years ago, in April 2006, we conducted our first listener survey in order to help us understand more…
Although I’ve largely been offline over the Easter weekend – meaning, not using Twitter or much RSS reading – I have been following developments in the extraordinary tale of No 10’s (former) communication strategist Damian McBride’s emails to LabourList blogger Derek Draper in January. In concise summary, those emails were…
This Good Friday is an apt day on which to think about death and destruction. Rather, avoiding death and destruction in a world without nuclear weapons, a call to action made by Barack Obama in Prague last week. The Economist has a powerful cover in this week’s edition, portraying the…
