July 2008
8 posts
8 tags
Social Media How-to Guide: Getting Started
Yesterday, I was chatting with a friend of mine about the PR his startup had “fallen into.” They actually created a really cool iPhone application and people noticed. He was excited about the coverage, but while his company wants to be engaged with the media and users, he and his fellow entrepreneurs often find storytelling and driving the narrative around their brand takes a backseat to...
3 tags
Ryan Block Stepping Down as Editor of Engadget:...
If you’ve got a hot new gadget you want to pitch and you want Ryan Block to write on it, you’d better act fast. Block will step down as editor of this publication in late August to start a new (undisclosed) company.
In his post today, he said of his new chapter, “I’m extremely excited — but there’s also simply no way I can give up working with Engadget that...
12 tags
socialmedian Emerging from Alpha with Social News...
(UPDATED July 30, 2007) socialmedian, which styles itself as a social news network, is slowly emerging from stealth mode has emered from alpha. Founded by serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg and backed by notables, Gordon Crovitz (WSJ), Reed Hundt (FCC), Julius Genachowski, (IAC/ LunchBox Digital), Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive and Allen Morgan (Mayfield Fund); socialmedian’s goal is to help...
11 tags
ContentNext, PaidContent.org Publisher, Acquired...
The acquisition, slated to be announced today was reported early this morning by Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. ReadWriteWeb, in post also early this morning, reported confirmation of the story based on a Twitter conversation between the Guardian’s Technology Editor Charles Arthur and travel writer Craig McGinty.
The move so far has been received very positively by new media content providers....
9 tags
Yaari = Spam: Note to Emerging Social Networking...
Social Networks continue to pop up at quite a clip. The newest one to catch my attention was Yaari – the India-based social network. I received an invite from someone I respect and thought I’d check Yaari out. I went to the site, gave an email address and password.
Everyone in my Gmail address book knows what happened next because you received an invite to Yaari anyway. My apologies to all who...
7 tags
Plurk Makes Compete's Top Five Fastest Growing...
Compete.com just released its June 2008 Top Movers data. In the top five was Plurk. Landing the #4 positioin was the newest microblogging site to hit the web.
In my June 1 Twitter versus Plurk post, I wondered aloud if Plurk might be the prime beneficiary of Twitter’s trouble scaling and related downtime. Based on the Compete data, that appears to be the case.
I’ve continued to...
4 tags
Import Your Twitter "Tweeps" into FriendFeed
With interest in FriendFeed taking off and people with large friend bases on Twitter migrating to Friendfeed, there have been several people asking about the best way to import contacts from Twitter to FriendFeed.
Eric at Internet Duct Tape commented on my Twitter vs. FriendFeed post with a link to his contact importer. I tired it and have to say it works well. I especially like the retro look of...
9 tags
How to Pitch Robert Scoble -- HINT: No Direct...
Any PR person still pitching Robert Scoble via direct messages on Twitter should be fired.
Scoble more than any other influential in the media has made it painfully clear how he would like to be pitched, “I hate getting pitches via email or direct messaging. Just post your pitch in public so I can retweet, thanks!” (via @Scobleizer tweet)
“OK, if you’re a PR person, and you’re on...