Archive for the 'Online Distribution' Category
Review of OnlyWire
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 the Internet.
Some [...]
Getting Indexed in Google News
I chatted with CT Moore from NVI Interactive Strategy at Pubcon a few months back about several topics including some of the things we’ve seen from Google News in the past year or so.
Note to self: Remember to take off that ridiculously large event badge next time.
Google News Search
Of the panels I sat through at the recent Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference in San Jose, the most relevant to the space in which I work was the panel on News Search. Although the panel is a consistent presence at the SES events, this particular panel had a Google representative, Maile Ohye, talk about [...]
Interview on Social Media Portal
I recently did an e-mail based Q&A with Social Media Portal, which focused primarily on my experiences working in product management to drive PRWeb. Here is an excerpt:
Social Media Portal (SMP): What is your full job title and role at PRWeb.com?
Jiyan Wei (JW): I’m the Director of Product Management – I drive product platform strategy [...]
Defining Online Distribution
The concept of online distribution is a broad categorization that encompasses a variety of different models for getting information from one place to another. Deconstructing the concept of online distribution is vital to picking an online distribution service that makes sense so here is a general overview of the different models of online distribution:
Direct Distribution [...]
Free Press Release Services
I was recently browsing through Twitter when I stumbled upon a posting that took me aback – someone had posted an RFP to build a mirror of PRWeb for a budget of $300.
It was comical in a sense but also interesting in that it served a hyperbolic function: it symbolized the process through which free [...]
This morning we announced our new partnership with AOL Money & Finance. Under the terms of the partnership we’ll be sending them a real-time feed of our private and public company news releases for syndication on the AOL Money & Finance Web site.
The partnership will be rolled out in two phases. In phase 1, public [...]
We’ve been working on some programming on the conference circuit with Webmaster Radio devoted to what’s new with PRWeb. Here are the links to the episodes we have produced so far:
107/2008 – General Update with PRWeb from SMX
11/4/2008 – PRWeb Partnership with Entrepreneur from ad:tech
Today we announced our new partnership with Entrepreneur.com. In a nutshell, we’re going to be giving them a full content feed for syndication on their Web site in a section reserved for small business news announcements.
For our customers this means great visibility on Entrepreneur.com – a potential audience of over 4.5 million uniques every month. [...]
The last couple weeks I’ve moderated a couple of webinars with Steve Mullen talking about marketing and PR strategies for small businesses. Yesterday we flip-flopped places and Steve interviewed me on SEO and press releases for Startup BizCast. In the interview I discuss some of the topics I’ve blogged about recently including press releases and [...]

