Archive | June, 2009
7 “must-have” iPhone apps for PR pros
Share 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 [...]
Continue reading...Follow Friday–June 26, 2009
26. June 2009
Share 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 Subscribe to Communications Conversations by Email
Continue reading...PR Rock Stars: A Conversation with Lee Odden
24. June 2009
Share 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 [...]
Continue reading...A different Follow Friday approach…
19. June 2009
Share 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 Subscribe to Communications Conversations by Email
Continue reading...Behind the firewall
18. June 2009
Share 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 [...]
Continue reading...PR Rock Stars: A conversation with Shel Holtz
16. June 2009
Share 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 [...]
Continue reading...What I learned at BlogPotomac
15. June 2009
Share 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 [...]
Continue reading...Live from BlogPotomac
12. June 2009
Share 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. Subscribe to Communications Conversations by Email
Continue reading...My community…in real life
10. June 2009
Share 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 [...]
Continue reading...The role of today’s PR pro: Head coach
7. June 2009
Share 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 [...]
Continue reading...The 2009 PR Reader’s Choice Blog Award Winners
4. June 2009
Share Cue music. Curtains. Enter Billy Crystal from stage left (oh wait, I mean Hugh Jackman). It’s the 2009 PR Reader’s Choice Blog Award winners! I know you’re all been waiting with bated breath (yeah, right), so we’ll get right to it. But, before we do, I wanted to take a moment to recognize a [...]
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