Archive for February, 2006
Gathering of the tribes
Next week’s New Communications Forum is shaping up to be the place to be if you’re in PR and have a blog. Or are interested in blogs. Or have ever heard of blogs.
If you’re going to be there and we haven’t already connected, drop me a line.
War of words
I’m involved in a little Wikipedia war going on here in New York’s 19th Congressional District.
Kind of cool that it’s the News Herald Record of Middletown, NY that broke the story. Not some high-falutin big city paper. The reporter completely understood the idea behind wikis and Wikipedia.
Keep your P’s and highly effective habits to yourself
Miss Rouge points out the latest rage among the upper echelons of the blogosphere.. giving advice on how to become… more effective bloggers!
Yippie!
It’s giving me hives as well. Any mention of Covey’s Habits of Highly Obsessive Compulsive Drones gives me ick chills.
Seriously, blogging is about self-expression. Make yourself happy. Don’t follow formulas. Rules were meant [...]
Bad PR is the least of their problems
I saw this one over the weekend and to be honest, I had to hold myself back from writing. I needed a bit of time to let myself lose a bit of the moral outrage.
Donald Rumsfeld is arguing that Al Qaeda is winning the PR war. No arguement from me on that.
This is what got [...]
Sucking up
I’m with Mike Arrington and Om Malik on this one.. the way to a blogger’s heart is not through ‘sucking up.’
Let’s all say this together - the idea of ‘pitching’ anyone the way they teach it in the big agencies is dead.
My most successful pitches, such as they are, were no more than two sentences [...]
