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If Grandma Esther were alive she would say that Strumpette was practically kvelling in the post yesterday about the new MySpace-like community for PR & communicators called MyRagan. “So vus is all the fuss with this social media,” Grandma Esther might say. “In my day we talked to each other. What happened with that?”
I don’t know, grandma. Now we [...]

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Google this, Google that. Google to add ‘universal’ search results. According to MediaWeek, Google will pull information from across the Web in all forms - web site links, images, video, blogs, maps or even from books - then present the results on a single page. There is also a new, updated version of Google analytics for your blog [...]

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Feel an empty void and need to fill it? Try public relations. 
Jason Calacanis, the luncheon speaker here today at PR Online Convergence, says he used to have a voice mail that essentially told PR people to screw off. Now he’s speaking at a PR conference. He’s mellowed over the years since I saw him at the last [...]

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Los Angeles — Transparency, authenticity, full disclosure - these are buzz terms we hear every day in online PR (especially here at the PR Online Convergence conference).  There is a utopian trust in the “wisdom of the crowd” and the democratization of information and the self-correcting, self-policing Internet. These are nice concepts that go along with reading Siddhartha [...]

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Is the press release dead? The answer, sadly, is no. Unequivocally, no.
Back in Jan. 31 I blogged Part I about the imminent death of the traditional press release and the advent of the (SMR) social media press release. The post was essentially a re-hash of old news so I was surprised by how many comments [...]

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Rise and shine. Be sure to check out the Week in Review I pen on Strumpette and then come back here and listen to music (see right column below in expanding “Music” section) and scan the PRBlogNews news below. What fun. You have nothing to do anyway, right. How much PR news can you handle?
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I am pleased to be doing the “Week In Review” column on Strumpette, starting today, with analysis of two of our favorite subjects, Edelman and Wal-Mart. Check it out.
We have our own magazine: Go to Blogger & Podcaster now to get your free inaugural, online edition. You can read the magazine in a cool reader [...]

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