Category Archives: PR Tech

Well, I am back after a relaxing week in the Outer Banks, a beautiful spit of land just off the coast of North Carolina.  It had great beaches, crashing waves and seemed to be one of the few places in … Continue reading →

A bit ironic isn’t it?  We did not find as much uptake for RSS among tech journalists that we surveyed as we had expected (see yesterday’s post Social Media Impact on Tech Journalism, and the survey summary on the Fusion … Continue reading →

In my post Antisocial Networking I mentioned that I was getting a ton of invitations to social networking sites and joked that “before long we will all be one big writhing mass of social networkers, spending countless hours doing whatever … Continue reading →

So if you are in PR, why do you need to blog? I’ll spare you all my rantings about new times calling for new communications measures (if you are new to this blog, here are a few representative links A … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s post reminded me about what a time sink blogging can be. When you are blogging, and trying to do a good job of it, conventional assumptions about effective time management go out the window. Good time managers minimize activities … Continue reading →

Continuing on yesterday’s topic of RSS, I am now starting to understand the importance of RSS standards and appreciating the related politics.  There appears to be lots of teeth gnashing and back and forth about these topics. Here is where … Continue reading →

My News Radar is picking up lots of chatter about RSS over the past few days.  Lots of this relates to RSS standards, the politics of RSS and the recent acquisition of FeedBurner by Google. (It figures, just as I … Continue reading →

I thought I would follow-up Monday’s post by tuning my news radar (courtesy MySyndicaat) to the search term  "PR and social networking," to explore and share what others have been writing on the topic (in for a dime, in for … Continue reading →

Pete Blackshaw wrote a good article for ClickZ, Who owns the Influencer? It echoes some of the broader points I have been making about the changing shape of PR. He makes the point that consumer generated media has resulted in … Continue reading →

I discussed in my post Welcome to the New, User Generated Non stop Media Whipsaw, how user generated content and participatory journalism can stir the pot of news coverage, impacting the spread of news and the course of events that … Continue reading →