I have been on to these Coolhunting guys for a couple of months, since they started the Swarm Creativity Blog in a marketing push to support their new book “Coolhunting - Chasing Down the Next Big Thing” . Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper, co-authors of the book, were members of a live online Coolhunt for a month, ending in May, [...]
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Posted in Citizen journalism, Edelman, Media, News, News Roundup, PR Agency, PR Blog Practices, PR Practices, Politics, blogging, social media on Jun 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Those are the words of Jodi Kantor (left) of The New York Times. She recalls few times when she dealt with a PR person who really made a difference in a story, someone who was able to ‘anticipate’ what the Arts & Leisure section, which she used to edit, might need. It’s a digitial world [...]
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Definite drama brewing as competing media mogul families duke it out with a $5 billion pot in the middle and a jewel brand as the prize. It’s not the Montagues and Capulets, although there is no love lost between the two families and the battle can be Shakespearian in proportion. That’s what we have this week with [...]
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“I am committed to customer service for the rest of my life. Death is my exit strategy,” said Craig Newmark, Craig’s List founder and chief conscience, at the New York Social Media Club ‘un-meeting’ last night at Fleishman Hillard in the old Daily News Building on 42nd street.
Newmark said he spends most of his time on customer [...]
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L.A. is really nowhere when it comes to PR new media and Seattle isn’t even on the map. Coming back from those two places to Lindsay Lohan screaming from the headlines of the newspapers on the streets of the upper west side you realize that New York has an identity in this new communication renaissance: [...]
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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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