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Blogging Is Dead. Oh, Really?

March 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Social Media for Business

You can always tell when it’s been a slow news day. There’s yet another provoca­tive news story, pro­nounc­ing the death of email, or blog­ging, or Twit­ter. You name it. Sev­eral weeks ago the New York Times wrote that blog­ging among young peo­ple was on the decline, accord­ing to research from the Pew Center’s Inter­net and American […]

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But Where’s the Conversation?

October 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Social Media for Business

The hype around social media as con­ver­sa­tion has become deaf­en­ing. Much of the hyper­bole comes from agen­cies and con­sul­tants who have seized upon social media as the next wave; their moti­va­tion is self-serving, of course. Pro­mot­ing their cre­den­tials as social media experts enables them

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PR 2.0 Book by Solis & Breakenridge">PR 2.0 Book by Solis & Breakenridge

May 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bookshelf, Social Media for Business

The pub­lic­ity team for Putting the Pub­lic Back in Pub­lic Rela­tions asked me for a review in this blog. This is the lat­est book by Brian Solis and Deirdre Break­en­ridge, two emi­nent thought lead­ers in the world of pub­lic rela­tions and social media. Their book is an in-depth dis­cus­sion of their man­i­festo for “a New […]

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Fun with Social Media

April 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Creativity, Social Media for Business

I’m sup­posed to be writ­ing a book review on social media for PR pro­fes­sion­als, but I stum­bled on Wor­dle and couldn’t resist putting my notes into visual form first. (Yes, I con­fess this is cre­ative pro­cras­ti­na­tion.) Here are ideas sparked by the hand­writ­ten notes I took while read­ing Putting the Pub­lic Back in Pub­lic Relations: […]

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