Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Pass Me The Torch; The Olympics Need Social Media!

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Seriously, 2008, the Olympics are THIS year?
OK, I’m half-joking, I too have seen the extra-sappy comercials running on NBC, making me dread hearing over-the-top documentary style renderings of some javelin competitor from Lithuinia.  Let me just put it out there, I have zero interest in this years Summer Olympics. The reason actually isn’t about the […]

Go Hug an Analyst

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Our lives, or at least what is discussed online and at conferences, have been laser-focused on media relations and blogger relations. Most of these conversations, as we all know, are typically folks moaning and whining about how bad PR people. A focus of PR that does not get much attention is analyst relations […]

Ugly

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Why get involved in this ‘PR blacklist‘ topic now, after so much great and misguided stuff has been written? Because “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more“. I was offline most of Friday when the action started, but as I caught up on Todd’s blog the evening […]

Let The Games Begin…in Austin!

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

The winter of my sixth grade year my class had the opportunity to join a skiing program; basically every Tuesday evening we could climb in a bus and head over to a TINY local ski bump. I didn’t know how to ski and to be honest had not even thought of skiing being a […]

Community is You

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The idea of community and it’s human ability to grow, outside of technology use, has been discussed a lot recently. My guess is that this comes from something I’ve been feeling a bit…”Facebook Fatigue” or “Twitter Tiring” or “Widget Withering” (I could do this all day).
Recognize the Symptoms!
Symptoms are often time mundane, a persistent […]