links for 2005-10-30
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another “public as the news editor” site
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“finding a link between word of mouth recommendations and sales performance”
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131 new verticals added
Last week I had the good fortune to be able to present a talk on effective writing for social media at a half day writing workshop led by my friend Don Bates, a professor at George Washington University and a long-time PR practitioner who frequently teaches people how to write more gooder 🙂
Stephen Baker over at Business Week’s Blogspotting reports: Look for Yahoo! to unveil a response to Google’s blog search early next week. This from Bradley Horowitz, director of tech development in the company’s search group. He wouldn’t provide details in advance. It will be interesting to see how the two products compare — will Yahoo…
Robert Scoble thinks so. He argues that Bloglines beats out Technorati because it has more links. Now, Bloglines may indeed be better than Technorati — I simply haven’t examined it carefully enough to comment. But you can’t focus solely on quantity at the expense of quality. All the links in the world don’t matter if…
I had a chance to merge my passions in my column this month in Mass High Tech magazine. I focused on the lessons we high-tech entrepreneurs can take from the restaurant industry. Check it out here.
BL Ochman has gone on the warpath against the BlogOn conference and its PR firm, Porter Novelli. First, she was irked that Porter Novelli’s rep refused to grant her a press pass to cover the event. Then she seemed insulted when BlogOn’s marketing rep suggested a trade in which BL would agree to promote the…
BL Ochman reports: MoveOn.org, which was seeking 500,000 signatures on a petition against proposed Congress’ cancellation of funding to NPR and PBS, has now reached almost a million signatures.