It took just minutes for the Vatican to alert the world’s media of Pope John Paul’s death — using text messages and email so the 2,000-year-old Church could meet the new demands of real-time news.
The Vatican isn’t exactly known as a bleeding-edge technology center, so any large organization who isn’t prepared to use the latest technology for crisis communications is certainly behind the curve.
Washington Post reports on the gist of comments to the FEC on internet campaigning regulations. My position will not be popular with fellow bloggers, but I do believe that if a blogger is paid to blog by a campaign, that should have to be disclosed — just like real world political activities. Now, if the…
Church of the Customer has an interesting item pointing out that Cooking Light magazine has the right theology: Encourage readers to meet one another via magazine-sponsored "supper clubs." A New York Times article explains how they make money off of the events: McCormick, as a co-sponsor of the magazine-sponsored supper clubs, pays an undisclosed fee…
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Over at one of the companies I’m involved with, CustomScoop, we’ve been playing with a new tool that we’ve only soft-launched and are getting feedback on. I thought I’d share it with readers of InterAdvocacy to see what you think. Basically, it’s a free service that let’s visitors see how two search terms do in…
PaidContent reports that Google is exploring creating a financial vertical, perhaps along the lines of Yahoo! Finance. Supposedly they are in an exploratory stage and have had meetings with many data vendors.
The Center for Media Research said in their email briefing today that there’s evidence that more young people are interested in Social Security in the wake of the ongoing debate over how to strengthen the system for the future. CMR wrote: President Bush’s campaign for social security reform has moved the debate to center stage….