Posted Saturday December 23, 2006, 3:48 am, Over one day old
I'd love to know something of what the hell happened here... At 08:31 yesterday morning, a news release purporting to be from Innotrac Corporation of Atlanta, Ga. hit the wires, announcing a "multi-year, multi-million dollar customer service and technical support...
Read Company News Release "Totally Untrue" (Links)
Posted Saturday December 2, 2006, 3:49 am, Over one day old
I've barely had time to skim the Executive Summary of this so far, but will read it properly and come back with some comments soon. In the meantime, here's a link to the complete 2006 report, subtitled "Public Relations Education...
Read 2006 Report of the Commission on Public Relations Education (Links)
Posted Tuesday November 14, 2006, 3:46 am, Over one day old
One of the things us PR folk are often asked to do is to help research and identify the most important and influential conference events our clients ought to be attending. It looks like that part of the job may...
Read Confabb launches - great addition to the PR 2.0 toolkit (Links)
Posted Wednesday November 8, 2006, 3:45 am, Over one day old
Comments are temporarily b0rked. I'm sorry. No idea why. Highly-trained primates are scampering through the tubes even as we speak, attempting to unscrew the inscrutable. In the meantime, there's always email....
Read Join the Monologue! (Links)
Posted Tuesday November 7, 2006, 3:46 am, Over one day old
I'm indebted to the splendid Miss Rogue, Tara Hunt, for creating and posting this useful, all-purpose email template for simplifying the often fraught process of pitching social media types: Dear [blogger], I really liked your post on [insert not too...
Read Standardized Social Media Pitching Template (Links)
Posted Tuesday November 7, 2006, 3:46 am, Over one day old
On the heels of other social media bookmarking/aggregation services such as NowPublic, PR agency Farrell Kramer Communications have launched NewsNosh. NewsNosh is billed as "a a searchable, user-contributed directory of online business news sources of all types: blogs, podcasts, news...
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Posted Tuesday November 7, 2006, 3:46 am, Over one day old
I should confess, first, that I've been a little sceptical about this whole "Social Media News Release" thing put together by Todd Defren and his firm, SHIFT Communications. I'm still somewhat sceptical, to be honest, but the problem is that,...
Read Social Media Relations in Crisis Mode (Links)
Posted Tuesday November 7, 2006, 3:46 am, Over one day old
Monsieur Le Flackster is backster. Have I said that before? Almost certainly. Pardon me while I blow a few cobwebs off the template, and dust down the ol' blog widgets. Here's the thing: as I mentioned in that post from...
Read Backster (Links)
Posted Sunday April 23, 2006, 11:27 pm, Over one day old
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Posted Sunday April 23, 2006, 11:27 pm, Over one day old
In the extended gaps between posts here, there's been a regular explosion of bloggery in the flackosphere. Flackery in the blogosphere. Floggery in the backosp... Whatever. See, I'm not really a flack any more. (SHOCKING REVELATIONS! Full story: p24). After...
Read Rolling a new hoover (Links)