Special Discounts for NewComm Forum 2010

By on April 2, 2010 in Events, Social Media

Every year there is one conference that I will go to regardless of whether or not I’m speaking or presenting there and that is the Newcomm Forum. Simply put, the event draws in some of the most forward-thinking professionals and academics in communications for several days of presentations, discussions and social events. It’s sort of [...]

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News in Blended Search

By on March 29, 2010 in Online Distribution, Search Engines

For those of you interested in how news appears in blended search results, I’ve put some thoughts together in a guest post for Lee Odden on the Online Marketing Blog.

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Hao-Odnla

By on March 25, 2010 in Online Distribution

It is not unusual for us at PRWeb to have our content scraped and syndicated on various Web sites.  In fact, a big part of what we do involves providing relevant slices of our content to reputable publishers so they may syndicate it. Recently it has come to our attention that a Web site called [...]

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Speaking at SMX West Next Week

By on February 26, 2010 in Industry News

So I’m going to be part of a panel discussion that will focus on blended search.  I think it will be interesting.  Then again, I’ve spent a good amount of time studying the topic in the past few weeks so I’m biased.  Also, I’m the one speaking so that makes me even a little more [...]

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Interview with Jason Kintzler from PitchEngine

By on February 13, 2010 in Industry News, Social Media

This past week, Brandy and I chatted with Jason Kintzler, founder of PitchEngine.   The interview can be downloaded or heard online at WebmasterRadio.fm.

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Analyzing Influence in Twitter

By on February 1, 2010 in Social Media

There are a variety of perspectives on how best to analyze influence in Twitter and it is not the goal of this post to present another approach.  Rather, I want to take take account of the existing ones, spend a few minutes presenting a perspective and hopefully get a few subsequent subsequent perspectives on this. [...]

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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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