Archive | May, 2007

Ragan Gets the Blogosphere

By on May 10, 2007 in Uncategorized

So I posted a couple of days ago about Ragan’s new social networking Web site for PR professionals and lo and behold, today I opened my comments moderation queue and amongst all the spam for pharmaceuticals I saw comments from Mark Ragan, the Ragan CEO, and David Murray, the developer who is dedicated to building [...]

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BlogThis – A Tool to Help Bloggers Write About the News

By on May 9, 2007 in Online Distribution

PRWeb has launched BlogThis, a feature that basically allows PRWeb users who are also bloggers, to easily blog about the PRWeb news.  Its a cool feature that should facilitate the discussion of PRWeb news in the blogosphere.

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MyRagan.com

By on May 8, 2007 in Public Relations

Ragan Communications has launched a social networking site that is tailored for PR professionals.  The first thing I noticed was the video greeting from their conference director, Rebecca Anderson, which is a smart move in my opinion because Rebecca is beautiful and well spoken, but the video could have been cut a bit better.  I [...]

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Social Media Release

By on May 8, 2007 in Online Distribution, Social Media

Brian Solis from FutureWorks, one of the leading evangelists for the social media release, has authored a good primer on the social media release.  Although Brian doesn’t delve deeply into changing patterns of news consumption on the part of the user, it is implicit in the piece that the social media release acknowledges that the manner [...]

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Social Media Q&A

By on May 3, 2007 in Social Media

Question: What is tagging and how do you get started? Answer: Tagging involves the practice of assigning a keyword to a piece of content (textual, audio, video, pictures). There are a number of different social media Web sites that integrate tagging: Del.icio.us – Allows you to tag bookmarks. Flickr– Tag photos. YouTube – Tag videos. [...]

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Digg Revolt

By on May 2, 2007 in Online Communities, Social Media

I got an e-mail from a friend this morning with the subject line ‘Digg – Revolt,’ and no words in the body of the text.  I immediately Googled the term and was inundated with a number of stories that described how a copyright encryption key for HD-DVD discs was posted to Digg and subsequently pushed to [...]

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