Krishna De just wrote an article called How Not To Pitch A Blogger and it is brilliant and useful — “here are three of the many mistakes they made in the pitch:”
there was no personal connection in the email to me about why the story may be of interest to me and my readers
they did […]
This week, Yahtzee plays with LEGOs and re-lives childhood horrors about Indiana Jones.
Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn’t talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and writes the back page column for PC […]
Our client, Jerry White, co-founder of Survivor Corps, just guest-blogged over at the Anderson Cooper 360 blog, How to stop the violence: Feel the pain, check it out:
The morning papers and nightly news are filled with reminders the world can be an unpredictably dangerous place. Earthquakes in China, cyclones in Myanmar, tornados in the heartland, war […]
From Drew B’s Take on Tech PR via Nixon McInnes:
“Only 18% of TV ad campaigns generate positive ROI”
“The average person is exposed to 3000 advertising messages a day”
“36% of people think more positively of companies who have blogs”
Good night and sleep well!
Jennifer Mattern just wrote a great post answering some of your questions regarding the important question, Should You Jump Into Social Networks to Promote Your Business? over at RedFly Marketing:
There’s a lot of buzz in the online PR world about social networking, whether that be traditional social networks like MySpace and Facebook or social networking […]
I have been trying to think of the best way to convey the weekend at PodCampOhio but my virtual friend new friend Ann Miller did a much better job of honoring the weekend! And, yes, I was one of the folks who received hand-made cookies! And here, below, is Ann Miller’s (AKA AnnOhio’s) Introduction to […]
I am now beginning to rock my Nokia N95 8GB with some pretty cool stuff, all recommended from my friends online and also in person at BlogPotomac, in the case of QIK.
QIK – An amazing little app that is free and I have downloaded and installed that allows me to stream live video from my […]
George Carlin was my first adult comedian. My dad — my parents — loved him. He was a true disruptor and free thinker, using comedy as his platform. Please check out George Carlin’s Wikipedia entry and the lovely obituary from the New York Times.
In an update to How Do You Use Google Trends?, Corvida from Read/WriteWeb wrote the post I wish I had written, Google Trends for Websites Sucks for Small Blogs, highlighting the fact that Google Trends might be useful for analysis and for term, keyword, and site comparison, but it isn’t useful at all for most […]
I have finally gotten around to catching up on all the Atlantics that have piled up in my absence in Berlin. One very compelling article is an anonymous essay written by “Professor X,” In the Basement of the Ivory Tower.
I am still trying to sort out my thoughts on this — please excuse the disjointed […]