Berlin is surely the coolest city on earth. Erika La Tour Eiffel (AKA Erika Mauer) was my next-door neighbor for a while in Berlin. She is an Objectum Sexual and here is her story! (You can watch all of the episodes here):
Don’t let the unique nature of her sexual orientation to turn you off to [...]
There are now public bikes you can rent in DC. I am so proud!
One thing that I am not is touchy about the fact that I love what I love. And I love Moleskine notebooks. And I love manual typewriters, especially the Hermes 3000, and I love quite a lot of other like-minded stuff. Well, Moleskine notebooks are #122 in the list of Stuff While People Like. Sad [...]
Earlier this week, I guest lectured on digital PR at the American University and reported on the experience, Public Relations and Communications’ Future is Bright!. I said that I would not write anything nice unless someone sent me a thoughtful email from the class.
Well, I received two nice notes, one from Juliana Serafini (who promises [...]
I just returned from guest lecturing for Chris Boesen at American University’s School of Communication’s Public Communication department. The class was full of seniors who aspire to join the PR workforce. I didn’t talk gloom or doom because I told them a secret. I told all of the fresh-faced smarties the secret that will make [...]
Audio discussion by Joni Wedderburn about the public relations industry’s slow acceptance of the new media phenomenon via the Internet Archive
Thanks, Simon Wakeman, for catching up with your RSS and Twitter feeds! Love this one:
Stuart Bruce has a nice summary of a debate that’s been happening on Twitter and elsewhere about the relative roles of public relations and search engine optimisation (SEO). For me the two are very different beasts, although there is some crossover. [...]
Cory Doctorow talks about the new law in the UK that makes in a crime to take a picture of a police officer or a building, Britain’s no-photographing-cops law: even the cops hate it — and the US isn’t very far behind, to be sure — and be sure to listen to the CBC article [...]
Jonathan Trenn popped this insightful article about Yelp over on Marketing Conversation, The contorversy about Yelp (and be sure to check out David Gelles’ article on a similar topic over at the Financial Times, Yelp rejects claims of extortion):
Ah, controversy.
Now, it’s with Yelp, the mega online review site. On Wednesday, the East Bay Express, an [...]
We do brand reputation and online reputation management and the number one thing we tell our clients is that if you don’t amplify your brand online — add some signal to the noise, if you will — then someone else will. And, you can do this before you’re attacked or you can do it afterwards [...]
