Daily Kos
James Wolcott, on Rich Lowry's "Care Bears and Jenna Jameson" moment: Good thing Palin didn't blow a kiss at the camera or Lowry might have fucking fainted. I'm not a licensed psychotherapist but when you think the people on TV are addressing you personally and directly it's often a sign of incipient dementia.
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Huffington Post
Among all the nuggets of wisdom I have garnered on the mat over the years, I have yet to hear a yoga teacher advise me to go deep within and seek new and innovative ways to make money. Nor has a guru ever, to my knowledge, doled out spiritual guidance hand-in-hand with stock market quotes and investment portfolio reviews. S (Read More)
Mashable!
Over the years, WordPress has consistently proven to be the most popular blogging system out there. Millions upon millions of blogs run on WordPress, and that’s not counting those that are hosted on WordPress.com, Automattic’s free, hosted blogging service.But it’s not just a blogging platform; as many hav (Read More)
Huffington Post
Ten years ago, Mari Kuraishi and I launched the first-ever Innovation Marketplace at the World Bank. The idea was that any team of staff, without regard to rank or title, could submit an idea for doing good, and that we would award $3 milion to the most promising ideas. There were few rules and little bureaucracy: in fact (Read More)
Submitted by Jbuss:
Networking was never one of my strongest skills. I am sometimes shy when it comes to meeting new people, and as a 23 year old who is just two years out of college, I don’t have much of an address book or LinkedIn network (but I have a ton of Facebook friends). The first stage of building my company, One Day, One Job, didn’t (Read More)
2008 Presidential Campaign Blog
More To Minnesota GOParty Cards Now Accepted At More Than 400 Area Businesses Host Committee To Distribute Window Decals And Thank Businesses At Mall Of AmericaMINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL, MINN. (August 23, 2008) – The Minneapolis Saint Paul 2008 Host Committee will distribute window decals at the Mall of America on Sunday, Augu (Read More)
NYT > Rowing
BEIJING After investing a fortune in its rowing program because that sport is rich with gold-medal opportunities, the Chinese watched two medal chances vanish over the weekend. (Read More)
2008 Presidential Campaign Blog
ST. PAUL, MN (July 30, 2008) – CBS News Poll, Newsweek Poll, Gallup Poll and now the Goldklang Group Poll. With everyone trying to predict who will be the next President of the United States the St. Paul Saints will hold their own poll, Bobblection 2008 presented by Lommen Abdo Cole King & Stageberg, P.A., along with the f (Read More)
: Rob and I went to the Saints game last night. We were too late to get a bobblehead doll, but we still had a great time. Obama won our stadium. Woohoo!
Submitted by Infodiva:
Reps. John Culberson, R-Texas, and Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, might be the most prominent Twitter users on Capitol Hill, but they aren't the only lawmakers utilizing the innovative social media platform to communicate with constituents. We uncovered a few other famous political faces who have posted short missives online -- some mor (Read More)
: I'd be much more likely to vote again for an elected official if I knew what he or she was up to. Twitter is a great way to do this, and is a compliment to any communications plan. Do elected officials have communications plans? I kind of don't think they all do. They should.
Online Media Cultist
Duncan Riley makes interesting points over at The Inquisitr, pointing out that blogging 2.0 is “the blogosphere’s first counterculture movement.” To back up a few steps though, the definition of blogging 2.0 is still evolving, and like the strange and nebulous term web 2.0 can and likely will mean differen (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
If there's a hot new social media trend happening, you can bet that companies are trying to find a way to use it to. It happened of course with blogging, it happened with Twitter, and it is now happening with FriendFeed and other lifestreaming apps.Indeed RSS vendor Pheedo has coined a neat term for this: brandstreaming. Th (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Yesterday, I was chatting with a friend of mine about the PR his startup had “fallen into.” They actually created a really cool iPhone application and people noticed. He was excited about the coverage, but while his company wants to be engaged with the media and users, he and his fellow entrepreneurs often find storytelling (Read More)
: Good article Christian. My advice though to these guys would be to just keep focusing on the product though. The product will create the PR, not vice versa.
: thanks, gigglewonk. we have a tendency to focus on the newest, shiniest things, which can make social media daunting for brands to delve into -- as you say. i tried to make getting started not seem so tough. That said, is there anything mission critical that i left off?
: Jasongoldberg: I disagree. First, you have to separate media coverage from PR. The product may drive media coverage and initially that coverage might even be positive, but the product won't drive public relations.
The idea behind brands leveraging social media is not about coverage -- while it can be a nice side benefit -- the goal is engagement and new and emerging social media tools can help. Think about Twitter. Fantastic coverage, terrible PR.