I would have never guessed that Camille Paglia would be in awe of Sara Palin or perceive her as follows, “Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities […]
I am starting a new series of blog posts called “What AH Does.” This is a series of free-form posts by members of the Abraham Harrison staff. Instead of a book report, I asked my staff to write a company report. While the request was generally free-form and I didn’t care what was written — […]
Markets are conversations.
Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.
Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice.
Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. […]
Last week Thursday morning, I participated as a social media PR expert and panelist in a very cool Bulldog Reporter PR University audio conference entitled Beyond Twitter PR. Here’s some information on the call-in audio conference:
8/28/08 - Beyond Twitter PR: The New Rules of Crafting a Powerful, Cost-Effective Social Media Strategy
New media communications, social media […]
Jeremy Pepper just wrote a blog post entitled Can I can get a big cup of STFU please? that you should read. The long story short is that social media is just one part of public relations and that everything really hinges on relationships and connections (Via Marketing Conversation and POP! PR Jots):
The fact is […]
Leo Bottary, SVP at Mullen, asked a pretty great question over on LinkedIn, What motivated you to learn about social media? I took a stab at answering in my own way (via Marketing Conversation):
I came to social media PR the other way around. I have been online since the world of the bulletin board systems […]
I have started doing a lot of traveling and I think that shipping stuff around via UPS or FedEx is a much better idea than checking luggage, especially if it is domestic and since carriers are beginning to charge for the privilege of losing or misplacing your luggage. This is via AARP:
Now that airlines are […]
I just received a love not from Matt Mullenweg and Wordpress.org — here’s a full-text copy of you to enjoy if you’re not on the Wordpress.org mailing list:
Subject: WordPress hasn’t forgotten you, we just don’t write
From: Matt Mullenweg
Howdy.
Long time no talk. I take that back — criminally long. I think this is the first message […]
According to an online quiz on Details, “Are Your That Guy,” I am totally that guy: a total douchebag, apparently.
1 You initiate fist bumps.
Yes
No
Someone told me that high-fives are passe so I have replaced them with bumps and regular, manly, handshakes.
2 You order foreign dishes in an accent.
Yes
No
I ask for foreign dishes, yes, properly. If […]
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 […]