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Earned Media for SEO and Profit

I just received this newsletter from the gang over at WebProNews AU, Blogging To Better SEO, that puts into words a lot of what we do for our clients every day as part of our Social Media consultancy and even what we do incidentally for our Public Relations clients.
With all of our social media […]

Boing Boing Wolves Take Out a Comment Spammer

I was just farting around Boing Boing Gadgets, enjoying the fine work over there, post amusement over seeing my business partner become immortal in a Boing Boing post and referred to as “a globe-trotting alpha male who spends winters rubbing elbows with bikini models down in Mauretius and summers either indulging in sport […]

Is a Modern Woman Still Mostly Valued For Her Uterus?

My friend wrote the following email to me. I asked her if I might be able to post it and she said yes, as long as I make it anonymous:
So maybe you’ll understand my irritation. Yesterday I found myself defending feminism to a couple of otherwise fairly liberal women. I’m not yet able to […]

Central Desktop Is My Choice for Project Collaboration and Task Management

I have been very happy with Central Desktop as part of the Abraham Harrison business and client services platform.
We had previously used Basecamp HQ. I didn’t mind it but my team hated it so I had Sara Wilson and Saul Wainwright go out to explore all of the project management, task management, business management, […]

Real PR Takes Real Relationships, Really

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 […]

Imagine Meeting Someone in a Bar

I have been going through Google Docs and discovered an internal document I would like to share with you from back in the beginning of 2007. Taylor Donlan wrote it to explain to our new staff how best to reach out to and engage online on behalf of our clients and in general. I was […]

Strong Community Demands Strong Leadership

I woke up to an amazing article written by Jonathan Trenn, The fallacy of community, and I responded in a comment to a pretty passionate article and a passionate comment string, and here’s what I wrote — and I have expanded the argument below, so it is an expansion. Via Marketing Conversation.
Gosh, I don’t know […]

Is There a Danger in Brand Barack Obama?

There are so many amazing things about the Obama campaign — including incomparable media savvy. Douglas Rushkoff wrote an insightful post about “brand Obama” that I consider to be one of the reasons why I supported Hillary Clinton — turning America around from the mess left by the Bush White House is going to be […]

Three Mistakes PR Folks Make Pitching Bloggers

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 […]

Jerry White: How to stop the violence: Feel the pain

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 […]