Last week, my wife and I took our annual week away together. It wasn’t exactly as planned because one of my sons got a stomach virus just hours before we were to leave for the West Coast, so we had to wait to be sure everyone was OK before turning the children over to the…
Their leading public relations industry podcast, For Immediate Release, has just struck a sponsorship agreement with Ragan Communications. I couldn’t be more pleased for Shel and Neville and for the FIR community. The deal includes promotion of the FIR podcast by Ragan, which makes it somewhat unique as sponsorship models go. Hopefully this will help…
Recently I started to write a blog post about the future of media. I planned to address the two big themes that I see playing a significant role in how we will produce and consume media in coming years. It spiraled a bit out of control and became a 30 page e-book titled The New…
Traditional (“old”) media finds itself experiencing an earthquake of change as online (“new”) media changes the rules of the game. Some publishers and broadcasters find themselves struggling to adapt, while others thrive on the ability to innovate. The competition becomes more intense by the day and the fears among old school journalists and media executives…
Nick O’Neill does a nice job today of asking (and answering) the question: “Is There Any Point In Launching Your Own Social App?” I’ve been wondering the same thing myself. With the sudden explosion of Facebook among my friends and colleagues, it feels like there might be a central meeting place already. As Nick points…
The concept of information overload is hardly new. But in the age of social media, we’re all inundated with so much information a daily basis that it’s hard to keep up. I know I have trouble keeping up with 233 feeds on a daily basis. I’ve done my best to organize them into logical folders…
I’ve been doing a bunch of thinking about online information in recent weeks because my gears have been churning ever since hearing about the Defrag conference and reading the blog posts from Eric Norlin and Brian Oberkirch on topics related to it. Today I was noodling on whether emerging trends point toward greater information aggregation…
The blogosphere and the rest of the Internet offer tremendous opportunities for people to live, learn, and work better. Great information resources exist. Communications tools facilitate interaction. And an entire infrastructure exists to enable creation of content, products, businesses, and more. I thrive in this arena both personally and professionally. I’m a blogger, podcaster, and…
Mitch Joel offers up a post today on examples of some marketers he thinks are doing Second Life right. He sees a shift from the “build it and they will come” philosophy to one in which companies seek to engage consumers in the Second Life experience through contests and other activities. In the past couple…
Jeremiah Owyang today writes an open letter to a speaker who apparently cribbed from his blog in making a presentation — without offering any credit: It’s a professional courtesy to cite others, especially if they’ve worked hard to get the knowledge that they have. Also, it adds to your credibility, as third party sources can…