Did you know more than are more than one billion iPhone apps have already been downloaded for your iPhone? (Note: Thanks to Don Bartholomew for the correction) ONE BILLION. So when Apple says “there’s an app for that” they really do mean it. I mean, they’ve thought of everything. Literally. As consumers, we love apps that help  Read more »

My Follow Friday recommendations for June 26, 2009. As usual, I provide context and rationale behind why I follow these three up-and-coming rock stars in the PR field. @cubanalaf @davidspinks @lizgiel

I had the wonderful opportunity earlier this week to sit down and share coffee with Lee Odden, president of TopRank Marketing–one of the premier digital marketing and search optimization firms in the Twin Cities. As Lee and I chatted, I learned more about how he started his business, his passion for all things search and  Read more »

Taking a different approach to Follow Friday today and giving you the “why” before I provide the “follow.” More context. More background. And hopefully, more value for you. Let me know what you think. For more on my “follows”: Danny Brown Leo Bottary Amy Mengel

The last few months, I’ve participated in my fair share of Twitter chats–Journchat, HealthSocMed, and my new faves Mack Collier’s BlogChat on Sunday nights at 8 pm and Bryan Person and Sonny Gill’s community chat Friday’s at noon. They’ve been invaluable as opportunities to meet and converse with PR and communications folks with common interests–and  Read more »

If you’re engaged in the online space as a communicator, there’s little chance you don’t know Shel Holtz. I mean, the guy is everywhere. From Ragan conferences to IABC events to social media boot camps across the country, Shel is as prolific as they come. And, quite honestly, he’s a legendary communicator.  I had the  Read more »

You’re not going to find a summary of the BlogPotomac speaker presentations here (but, you can find two great summaries of Shel Holtz and Scott Monty’s presentations over at Matt Batt’s blog). You won’t find insights I gleaned from Amber Naslund, Shashi Bellamkonda or Rohit Bhargava (although I did pick up a few tidbits from  Read more »

What are folks learning at BlogPotomac, one of the more progressive social media unconferences in the country, today? Hear insights and thoughts from Matt Batt, founder of Pipeline Media Relations and Allan Schoenberg, director of corporate communications at CME Group.

Tomorrow, I’ll be taking a jet airplane (thanks Southwest Airlines!) to meet up with what can only be described as an “all-star cast” of PR, marketing and social media rock stars at BlogPotomac in DC.  The speaker list for this event is very impressive: Scott Monty, Shel Holtz, Liz Strauss and Geoff Livingston, to name  Read more »

My friend, and PR Reader’s Choice Award Up-and-Coming Blog award winner, Lauren Fernandez had a great post last week about the role of social media within an organization. Which got me thinking how much a PR professional’s role has and will change over the coming years. No longer can PR pros merely manage the message.  Read more »