anonymous art in akureyri Originally uploaded by factoryfarm. I have been thinking a lot about the merits and drawbacks to anonymity on the web. First, in a teleconference that we held for PRSA on the topic of Social Media this week, Scott Baradell, who was also on the call along with Constantin Basturea, said that he felt that by just cutting out anonymous comments on a blog, or other read more...

guarantee Originally uploaded by geewizz. I have written in the past about my dubious view of “value billing,” or for billing a client what the work was worth, versus billing a client for the spent on a project, or a pre-determined lump sum for a project. David Maister, a noted management consultant, posted aboutread more...

going ... Originally uploaded by FreeMySoul. Or at least you can hear from a few nuts. ;-) Scott Baradell, Constantin Basturea and I are participating in a PRSA teleseminar this Thursday. read more...

We had a meetup of real-world communicators at the Text 100 office in Second Life last week. I have to say that I learned a lot more about what makes this place tick. At some point during the 1.5 hour meetup, we had 27 people stop by. An increase from 17 at our last meeting. Some of the bloggers that I knew were there included Andrea Weckerle; David Parmet; read more...

too good to be true Originally uploaded by krispy. The past few weeks have been a blur of client meetings and in-the-trenches PR work, so you can excuse me that I missed it when Business Week ran a story about a Wal-Mart blog gone bad and when my colleague John Wagner pointed out a similar story in read more...