In mid December, the RSS feeds for all my blogs including this one that have been managed by FeedBurner since 2004were auto-migrated over to Google. This is part of the changes that started happening earlier last year following Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner in 2007. As I wrote last month, the…
Content summary: FIR Interview with Jack O’Dwyer posted; next FIR Live on Feb 7; Dan York reports on the new White House blog, CNN and Facebook, tools for Twitter, Identica, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: communication and other perspectives on the inauguration of US…
When Bob Nardelli, Chairman and CEO of beleaguered automaker Chrysler, posted Thank You America on Chrysler’s corporate blog at the end of December, I imagine the last thing he or his communications team expected was the scale and depth of vitriolic comment left by some of the good citizens of…
I’ve always thought of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) as a bit of a disconnected professional body, one that’s not quite in step with the realities of what’s happening in the professional trenches, as it were, regarding social media. I say this as non-advertising man not immersed in…
Jack O’Dwyer is widely recognized as a voice of influence in, and a critic of, the public relations profession in the United States as well as an observer and journalist focused on the profession. His firm, The O’Dwyer Company, has been covering PR, marketing communications and related fields for 40…
If you’re a Twitter user, you like the idea of extending your virtual community into the real world, and you’d be keen to help a worthy cause, Twestival is right up your street. On February 12 in over 100 cities around the world, local Twestivals will be taking place which…
Something that swiftly caught attention and many imaginations yesterday is what happened to the White House website the instant after Barack Obama was sworn in as US President. The new site’s design and overall look-and-feel obviously reflect the change in incumbent at the White House, so it’s not the appearance…
One of the interesting things – phenomena, perhaps – of the US presidential election campaign during 2008 was how many people remade themselves to look like Barack Obama. By that, I mean the images people use to portray themselves online. Such images are typically known as avatars. The iconic image…
