Public Relations, Social Media and Ephemera Since 2005
Sue and I spent Saturday night at the Roger Smith in Manhattan. I was the winner of the “impress us with your haiku” contest and the room was our reward.
While sitting at the bar, we met Brian. Sue offered him an idea for the next give-away, which he promptly used. And on Sunday morning we ran into Howard Greenstein who was on his way to meet with Aliza Sherman who I didn’t even know was in town.
All of which prompted Sue to observe that this was all getting a bit comfy.
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I’m still in the process of coming up for air, and going through a huge pile of photographs, but I wanted to offer the following profound thoughts:
Kudos to Kristin Maverick for her new gig at AttentionPR. Attention has been gathering quite a stable of talented folks; Kristin is a real rock star and they are lucky to have her. True to form, here’s the announcement on Attention’s blog.
And kudos to Todd Defren and the team at SHIFT Communications for pulling in Club Med as a client. I think this has to go down as a dream client. The ‘getting to know you’ meetings must be a blast but hopefully they don’t have to sing the ‘Hands Up’ song.
Finally, a great big bucket of stupid pills to the MTA of New York and New Jersey for trying to shake down the Station Stops blog. Details here. And here’s an interview with Chris himself who is quite surprised to find out that the train schedules are considered intellectual property.
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Mike Manuel (AKA, the hardest working man in PR business) senses trouble afoot:
I can’t tell you how many marketers I know are pissed off these days at A) the big social networks; and B) the community software providers.
I agree with Mike about the problem. Marketers are unhappy and the big social networks – all of whom started out as tiny social networks and their ability to deal with growth and interest from marketers hasn’t kept up with the growth – aren’t helping any.
Mike believes this will lead to an increase in ‘roll your own’ solutions. I’m not so sure I agree. For agencies like Voce and SHIFT, who have either the in-house capacity and / or the smarts to conceive of such solutions, DIY is easy. But for the larger agencies, most of whom still see all of this as some sort of mumbo=jumbo and typically focus on tactics, being ripped off by software providers and pushed around by big media organizations is too ingrained into their DNA.
This is just another case of where the nimble will survive and thrive and the dinosaurs will get crushed.
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We’ve learned a lot at Casa de Parmet about living off of the land. This year we started our vegetable garden and also dramatically increased our purchases of organic, locally grown or raised foods. By far our greatest discovery has been local hero John Boy.
So this Thanksgiving, all of the foods on our table will have been grown or raised within a days drive of our home, by people we know. And I’ve even got my eye on some local vinyards for the vino.
It’s important, not only symbolically, but as a practical lesson for our kids in where stuff really comes from. My proudest moment as a budding farmer was watching the Twin Princesses run outside to get lettuce for their sandwiches. I’d be willing to be there aren’t that many other kids at their school who can say they picked their own lunch that morning.
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