A client called B.S. on me today. I was asked to judge the potential influence of a blogger and twitterer who had posted a detailed response to some claims that my client had made about his company’s product. I came back with an answer which was informed not by our usual in-depth analysis, but by [...]
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This week the Mad Men crew got a present just in time for the Christmas episode: Pond’s Cold Cream. One of the old characters returned, having just left one of the big agencies in town he showed up at the doorstep of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce holding a chance to win the business of Pond’s [...] I love Mad Men. I love it for its 60s style, for its writing, character development and what it says about us today. The fact is, all period dramas (and futuristic science fiction) say more about who we are today than they do about the people they pretend to portray. In a way Mad Men [...] It’s no coincidence that Apple held its press event on a Friday. Anyone who has ever worked near politics will tell you that you drop a story on a Friday when you want it to die. It’s an age-old trick. Even better, make it a summer Friday when all the editors are eager to start [...] It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it may not be all that funny to some. Two stories in the most recent “On the Media” have me thinking about the shifting equilibria of both the legal and journalism worlds, and what their implications are for the rest of us… In “The End of Libel?”, [...] I first met Steve Baker several years ago when he was working on his book The Numerati. This was after he had already co-authored an influential cover story on blogs for BusinessWeek that acted as a wakeup call to corporate America. The message: ignore blogs (and social media) at your peril. His later cover story [...] As a PR person I find it oddly refreshing to be pitched. It’s like the assignment Prof. Padwe gave us in journalism school to profile each other. You learn a lot when you hear your own life translated by someone else. Your own quotes come back sounding quite a bit different. I recently received a pitch [...] In this second part of a recording of Chuck Hester’s presentation on LinkedIn success secrets from Newcomm Forum 2010, Chuck shares some great tips on using LinkedIn for media relations, among other great tips. Chuck Hester is a LinkedIn power user with over 10,000 connections on the business networking site and the author of “Linking [...] My previous life found me in the news rooms and control rooms of various Boston TV stations producing the days’ news. And yes, I produced the occasional snow show. Snow shows don’t exist much anymore, but back then when a big storm came to town we’d do “wall-to-wall coverage” of this snow event. We’d put reporters [...] Working on LaunchCamp Boston has been a pretty exciting thing this week. We’ve seen the sign-up list grow with some wonderful participants heard from some wonderful people who want to take part and add to the discussion along with the many who were already on board to work with us on this project. It looks like [...]  |
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