In August I was invited to participate in a survey about how PR professionals "regard blogs as a business tool." I was just informed the survey has been published on the Web. It contains some interesting information, and may provide readers with some insight on how blogs will continue to be used in business and […]
Archive for September, 2005
Today a family member received a "thank you" letter that contained a long, fairly obscure word. In fact, I had to look it up in the dictionary, for I had never heard it used in conversation, nor read it. The word sounded like something you’d see in those "Word of the Day" calendars.
That word completely […]
The Dreaded PR Pitch
Published by September 14th, 2005 in Journalism and Public Relations. 2 CommentsBlake Barbera of Wet Feet PR, one of my favorite PR blogs, has some great advice for young PR professionals on pitching stories to the media. I look at pitching from a salesman’s view- Know your product! The more you know about the particular story you’re pitching, the more confident you’ll be on the phone. […]
Word on the street is Microsoft will be releasing at least seven versions of it’s upcoming operating system, Windows Vista. I’ve seen the screenshots, and it looks pretty, but I have to doubt the wisdom in releasing so many versions of a single operating system at one time. Do customers need seven different versions of […]
Newspapers Still (Rightfully) Dominate
Published by September 6th, 2005 in Journalism, Weblogs and Writing. 0 CommentsWith all this talk of blogs, wikis, podcasting and the "new media," sometimes it’s easy to forget that the overwhelming majority of people are still getting their info from time-tested "old media" sources, such as dead-tree newspapers. Tom Rouillard (via Tim Porter) has a fun post about a few of the things that make newspapers […]
I’ve been out of town for a bit, and Internet access isn’t always a given, so I haven’t been able to post or even keep up on technology or PR news. To be honest, all of my news-watching habits have been more or less dominated by information coming out of New Orleans in the wake […]
