Archive | January, 2010

Conversation with Stuart Foster, Social Strategist at Mullen

By on January 30, 2010 in Social Media

This past week I had a great chat with Stuart Foster, social strategist at Mullen.  We got into a number of topics including the role of creativity in public relations, the incredible (and sometimes forgotten) potential within social bookmark communities and more.

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HARO Announces Product Launch

By on January 22, 2010 in Industry News

HARO (Help a Reporter Out) is launching a host of new features to support their system, which connects journalists and bloggers (let’s call them content producers) with PR/marketing folks interested in getting coverage. According to most accounts, HARO was launched as a Facebook group in 2007 (although HARO had probably been manifesting organically through founder [...]

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1410Q: A Home for Innovation in DC

By on January 19, 2010 in Events, Industry News

I got together with Daniel Odio from PointAbout and Peter Corbett from istrategylabs at 1410Q last week, PointAbout’s new corporate headquarters. Turns out that Daniel has a much grander vision for the space than simply housing the PointAbout group.  The goal is to create an “entrepreneur-friendly technology innovation hotspot, where we invite tech entrepreneurs to [...]

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Review of OnlyWire

By on January 12, 2010 in Online Distribution, Social Media

I toyed around with OnlyWire for a while today and wanted to share some initial observations but first a little bit of foreplay. Bookmarking is a vestige of the Mosaic browser (circa 1993) and has subsequently emerged into a persistent feature of Web browsers.  Bookmarks aren’t rocket science: There are a lot of pages on [...]

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