A timely story about that distribution channel so often misused by the PR industry – email. In an article published in Journalism.co.uk (and elsewhere), Iain Fleming, who works for Newslink, a news aggregation and delivery service in the UK, writes […]
Month: November 2009
About 15 months ago, I implemented the Thesis theme for WordPress on this blog. It’s a premium theme (you pay for it) and a powerful one as it gives you access to the means to customize many aspects of the […]
If you’re an art lover who owns an iPhone or iPod Touch, you will rejoice today as you can visit the Musée du Louvre in Paris right on your device, wherever you happen to be. The museum just launched an […]
This week’s edition of The Economist arrived in the post this morning. Not an unusual event, really, except it reminded me that last week’s didn’t show up until Tuesday because of the postal strike for three days. Which followed the […]
Overflow from FIR #498 on November 5, 2009. PR Week: CIPR Seeks To Calm Concerns Over Looming Financial Loss. (Referenced: IABC wipes out deficit by Allan Jenkins, Feb 2006.) Download this podcast (2.54Mb, 5:33) If you want to automatically receive […]
Content summary: Shel’s on his own in Toronto; how the Union for Reform Judaism used Twitter and Facebook to solicit member questions for Tony Blair’s live appearance at the group’s biennial; Google Wave and Twitter List reminders; Dan York’s report; […]
This is one of the simplest yet most useful measurement tools for Twitter I’ve yet seen: TweetReach, discovered via a tweet by David Terrar earlier today. What TweetReach does is calculate how many people have seen something you, or anyone […]
Another quick look before publication at the Top 30 UK tech blogs list, thanks to my friends at the Wikio search engine. The top 30 list is a subset of Wikio’s compete Top 100 UK Technology Blogs ranking, the November […]
Content summary: FIR group on Google Wave up and running; Barbara Nixon suggests an FIR Twitter List; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: bridging the gap […]
David Terrar writes a terrific post on the SOMESSO blog on the gap between corporate culture and what he calls ‘Web 2.0 society.’ What especially resonates for me about David’s words are the simple truths he articulates on some people’s […]
Brian Solis writes a thought-provoking post about how he sees the future of the social web, prompted by a Forrester report of the same name published in April. Forrester’s research examined what’s happening in the context of what they describe […]