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Don’t Be a Twitter Quitter

Today, I am pleased to feature a guest post from Shama Kabani.  Shama’s book The Zen of Social Media Marketing is now available on Amazon. Read my post to learn about how Shama came to be a Flack’s Revenge contributor.  … Continue reading

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Good Pitch Blog (post)

I thought my last post, What is YOUR Brand of Social Media Snake Oil?, was provocative, and might stir up some controversy, if not flames and violent disagreement. (For the record, I really do believe what I posted and did … Continue reading

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Help Your Info Rise to the Top

I wrote a post for the Social Fluency blog that explains how to get attention for your information: Top Tips for Giving Your Info an Edge Please see below for an abbreviated version, and visit the link for the complete … Continue reading

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Famous Publicity Stunts in Tech PR

Yesterday’s post made me wax nostalgic and think of famous tech PR stunts, especially those which hijacked the big industry events, like CES and the former Comdex show. Certainly, I have been involved in my share of PR stunts (could … Continue reading

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NY Times Covers Stories Related to Public Image/PR

I took a flight from NY to Northern California today for client and new business meetings.  After doing some some work, I read the NY Times and noted no less than three stories in the Business section related to PR/public … Continue reading

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Attention Disorder – So Just What Were those Pilots Doing/Watching?

It defies reason, that those pilots over shot their mark at Minneapolis because they were engrossed in analyzing and discussing new routes on their laptops (CNN story). Yet in the time since, I have not heard anything to contradict their … Continue reading

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What is your Return on Acronym?

Had a great day meeting with clients, friends and colleagues at the Web 2.0 / Interop / Chem / Everything but kitchen sink show at the Javits center yesterday.  It is a sign of the times that there are so … Continue reading

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Why I Like Getting Pitches

While checking my Blackberry over the weekend an email with the subject line “Your Media Profile” caught my attention.  Thinking it might be Spam, I was intrigued enough to open the message anyway – and was surprised and pleased that … Continue reading

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Spanning Time with Facebook

In crafting this post I was reminded of a scene from the great independent flick Buffalo ’66.  The degenerate played by Vincent Gallo is posing in a photo booth with his waif girlfriend, played by Chrsitina Ricci.  They are rehearsing … Continue reading

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Like A Boss My friends and family sometimes ask what it is like to be a boss. Watch this video to find out. It ran on SNL last week (Andy Samberg is a freakin’ genius). Caution: not for the faint … Continue reading

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