JAG Wire Starts Blogging
JAG Wire is finally getting a blog! While we handle PR accounts for technology companies, the so-called “early adopters,” we would never in a million years be mistaken for early adopters ourselves. I...
View ArticleOnline Communities — The New PR Challenge
On the edge of San Francisco’s Presidio, 130 people gathered on July 27 to hear how four companies — Digital Places, Edmunds.com, CivicSpace Labs and QuickBooks.com – are using discussion forums to...
View ArticleDaily News Journalists On What Works
So how do PR professionals land a company profile or get a product into a daily newspaper for their clients these days? PR Newswire organized an informative Webinar on that very subject on May 17,...
View ArticleBloomberg News Turns Tables
Bloomberg News turned the tables on me today. I just returned from a fascinating briefing given by the San Francisco Bureau Chief, and top tech editors/reporters at Bloomberg’s swanky waterfront San...
View ArticleThe Original Venture Capitalists: A New Film
An early screening of the first documentary film about the founders of Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry mesmerized an audience of investment bankers and VCs, lawyers, entrepreneurs,...
View ArticleFrom Foe to Friend: Turning online critics into brand ambassadors
I’ve often thought about how social media is blurring the lines between public relations and customer service. Everyone with a laptop or online device now has a powerful publishing platform at their...
View Article8 Hot Social Media Marketing Tips
Nearly 3,800 people registered for SocialMediaExaminer’s Webinar “8 Hot Social Media Marketing Tips You Need to Know” yesterday (April 6, 2010). If you weren’t one of them (perhaps you couldn’t get...
View ArticleSocial Media: Will it Prove Itself for Business?
“Social media is at a place right now where if it can’t prove itself, or if we don’t find the case studies that help everyone else learn, it will go the way of SEO,” said Chris Heuer, the provocative...
View ArticleFacebook’s Death Knell?
Is that the faint tinkle of a death knell I’m hearing for Facebook among its once rabidly loyal small business owners? Probably not! It’s more likely just the echo of the reverberating collective...
View ArticleIs the Tech Industry Blowing Another Bubble?
Moderator Owen Thomas /VentureBeat and Panelists Paul Martino/Aggregate Knowledge; Christine Herron/First Round Capital; Corey Reese/Trumpet Technologies; Tim Chang /Norwest Venture Partners. Is the...
View ArticleCatch Up Reading: Web 2.0 Summit, DeFrag, Amplify and TWTRCON 2010
Rapid-fire tweets from overlapping social media shows Web 2.0 Summit, DeFrag Conference 2010, Amplify and TWTRCON SF10 overwhelmed my Twitter feed this week. How can anyone keep up with all this...
View ArticleFilm on Early Venture Capitalists to Debut at SXSW
Apple's Steve Jobs and investor Mike Markkula in the early days A one-of-a kind documentary film chronicling the early years of Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry will debut in the Spotlight...
View ArticleEarly Venture Capitalists Immortalized in Film
If you are at the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference and Festival in Austin this week run don’t walk to the nearest movie theater screening Something Ventured, a new documentary offering an...
View ArticleAre Government Jobs Where the PR Money Is?
“In the past three years, state agencies have spent more than $20 million in taxpayer money on outside advertising, public relations and media campaigns,” writes Gregory B. Hladky of the Hartford...
View ArticleMy Favorite Tools: Twitter
Jottings by a tech PR consultant on a tireless quest for the next best tool, application, widget or Website to help “balance” life between the cyber and real worlds. I wish I could say my favorite...
View ArticleTalking Social Media with Marcy Gordon
Marcy Gordon describes herself as “a reader, writer, eater, traveler” on her “Come for the Wine” blog, but she’s much too modest. While she didn’t invent Post-Its or fly around the world in a hot air...
View ArticleAbout Those Freemium and Free Trial Models…
Facebook uses the freemium model to sign up hundreds of thousands of followers. LinkedIn offers free trials to entice potential advertisers to try premium services with free ad placement credits. Will...
View ArticleMy Favorite Tools: Muck Rack Pro
Jottings by a tech PR consultant on a tireless quest for the next best tool, application, widget or Web site to help “balance” life between the cyber and real worlds. If Twitter is the modern day...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Local Newspapers Engage Readers with Social Media?
Three incidents have left me frantically searching for news alerts and updates about police and fire activities in my neighborhood. Each time I find myself in the middle of the crossfire, I wonder...
View ArticleCompanies That Pay Journalists and Bloggers
If your company pays a blogger or journalist to write a favorable article under their own bylines should you a) cross your fingers and hope no one will find out? 2) add a disclaimer that that he or she...
View ArticlePRSA 2012 Int’l Conference in San Francisco: It’s a Wrap, Folks
Social media success stories and strategies featured prominently in this year’s PRSA 2012 International Conference in San Francisco from October 13-16, 2012. For those who did not attend — like me —...
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