Several months ago I was perusing through my RSS feeds when I stumbled upon Shel Holtz’s blog about a short video that explained wikis in a fun and informative manner, produced by Seattle-based CommonCraft. I became excited when I saw the video because they managed to explain a commonly misunderstood information technology in [...]

I was having lunch the other day with Sylvia and John Todor, a couple of PRWeb clients when our conversation turned towards the social media release.  Sylvia was describing an anecdote in which a friend of hers’ had created a story around her musical practice, framing it as a solution to the negative emotional effects [...]

I recently moderated a webinar that explored online video, with an amazing trio of participants including Bart Feder from the FeedRoom, Stephen Harris from TLC, and Lee LeFever from Common Craft. It turned out to be a raging success and were flooded with questions that we didn’t have the time to answer due to [...]

Following on last week’s exciting article from Fortune, on PRWeb, we got a mention in today’s Wall Street Journal Online’s Small Talk, which discussed how PRWeb can be a tool for getting publicity on a budget.

Wow.
Fortune did a great piece on Vocus and PRWeb, focusing on the changing environment for online news distribution.
An excerpt from the article:
PR Newswire and BusinessWire are the Big Two of press release land, and together they still control roughly 70% of the market in the U.S. It’s this quasi-monopoly position position that no doubt attracted [...]

We publicly announced the launch of Issues Wire yesterday, which is powered by PRWeb.  Issues Wire is going to be news distribution oriented towards the political and policy folks and we are going to be looking at adding vertical distribution points in the coming months.  Initially, there are a number of issues-focused RSS feeds we [...]

So last week Market Wire purchased an online news service called “Press Release News Network.” A couple of days later, Brian Solis shared his thoughts on the PRNN purchase and on the Market Wire announcement on his blog. The basic gist of it was that Solis was critical of the excessive ’social media’ [...]

Steven Mullen, who is a PRWeb power user and president of EndGame Public Relations, recently interviewed me for his podcast, Startup BizCast, which provides advice on marketing and PR for small business owners. 
We chatted for a while about online news distribution, some best practices associated with putting together news releases, and even a bit about the [...]

The FusionBrand blog has posted a decent recap. of developments pertaining to the SMR, along with some ‘tentative observations gleaned from the debate’ (boy - that sounds like something I would write). 
Every time I read more about the SMR, there are more questions that pop-up in my head. 
It is really amazing to me that so [...]

The guys in the lab have pulled out a host of news feeds in both RSS 2.0 and Atom, organized by country.  These feeds are going to help us provide our global partners with content; provide enhanced opportunities for PRWeb news subscribers to receive tailored content; and allow our customers to expand the reach of [...]