My “Letter to the Editor” in the Asheville Times today. Anyone not familiar with what’s going on: Asheville is a city being considered for 1gb broadband from Google. This site, GoogleFiber.com was created, “unofficially,” by someone to create a horserace online. People voted for a month.
The voted ended. Then, suddenly, another round of voting? Why, [...]
The information shared here through BusinessWire is straightforward and simple.
Crafting the message and content is obviously the most important factor in developing an excellent public relations and press release campaign.
When developing a press release, I try to incorporate at least Five out of Seven of the traits that are outlined in the article. One that [...]
The best part of sharing this story, is that I posted the story of Facebook “leaking” privacy information – on Facebook. You have to love it!
Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole – WSJ.com.
This is very interesting. Unfortunately, it focuses on companies that actually have budgets (there is a mention in point #3 about “a meager budget of $15,000″ for one particular twitter campaign. In Asheville, that would be expected to produce a logo, positioning statement, branding campaign, six months of facebook, tw [...]
Thought clearly, satire, the definition which is, according to Wikipedia, ” human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are censured by ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent of improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its purpose is often not so much humor for [...]
Good case study on public relations meets reality television. Excellent example of defining the problem wrong and then creating the wrong solution.
How TV Superchef Jamie Oliver’s ‘Food Revolution’ Flunked out | | AlterNet.
Yesterday a number of our crack, ace, super social media guru blogger experts when all a-twitter announcing that Google had chosen Asheville in its “google fiber initiative,” linking to the blog announcing the win, and giving themselves whooo-hooos and high fives.
I did a quick search in Google, under “google fiber initiative,” (10 [...]
[But] the 14th season premiere wasn’t really slamming Woods and other famous names — it was doing its usual trick of satirizing a media that gets all huffy and self-righteous about bad behavior.
What they didn’t know, and never could’ve predicted, was that the Web would also transform itself into an enormous, never-ending high school reunion (See also: hell).- from the article, “What has the Internet done to us?”
A very good article that helps tone down the social media hysteria. Well, at least turns it down a notch.
5 Social Media Myths | Digital Tonto.
Quite a bit of info flying about regarding the PRIVACY changes with Facebook, how this is a turning point in social networking and media, what the heck is going on?
Good to start following some of this information. What is sort of funny is that you can post via facebook all the controversy surrounding them.
Apparently, one [...]
viral marketing at its best. 2 million viewers to date, for something that started less than one week ago.
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