links for 2005-10-13
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From blogger to RNC e-comms staffer
PaidContent.org reports: C-SPAN is launching its podcasts with three popular shows: After Words, Q & A and segments from American Perspectives.
Well-known PR measurement expert Katie Paine is blogging about the International Public Relations Research Conference going on in Miami. She has an intriguing observation which hopefully she’ll elaborate on when she’s not running between sessions: Howard Dean and the DNC would be adviced to carefully study Len Barshak’s ongoing Q-Sort study of attititudes about the…
Idil Cakin of Burson Marstellar offers some good advice about dealing with the blogosphere in an article for DMNews. Excerpted below are some of the more interesting points. Whoever comes up with the best "secret sauce" to solve the problem of weighting blogs will have a powerful offering. (This is something the brains at CustomScoop…
The Tennessean covers the story of a state rep who has taken to blogging — and offending many of his colleagues in the process. Rep. Stacey Campfield has been taking a beating over his blog. The Knoxville Republican’s Internet postings about goings-on at the state Capitol have been called less than ”outhouse worthy” by one…
MeetUp.com came to fame because of the Howard Dean campaign. Despite inroads by conservative groups like Townhall.com which has registered 24,000+ activists through the site, most of the top 15 political groups listed on the site are left-leaning. In fact, only 3 right of center groups appear on that list. MeetUp suffers from the public…
MediaPost reports that Yahoo has announced a leap into original content, featuring former war reporter Kevin Sites. Sites, a veteran of CNN and NBC, plans to leave for Africa on Wednesday. He will spend the next year traveling to 36 war-torn corners of the world, and reporting on how current events affect people’s lives. ……