Comments Out of Control New tool will make monitoring blog chatter about your Web site easier Today, Steve Rubel reported that Google is now offering a Firefox extention that allows you to see the comments of any blog that is linked to that page. It also allows a blogger the ability to add a (Blogger) post directly from the Web page. WOW! If expanded to other platforms, this tool has the potential to end the disagreement about comments and their control (turn them off, turn read more...

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On the Road in Texas I-71 Originally uploaded by gothicbeet. My family in Beaumont holds their annual Christmas stew for 200 of their closest friends this weekend. The deceorations alone are good enough reason to attend. I bet from Google Earth you could see the Christmas lights (do they do night shots?). I will be driving with my almost 20-month-old son (who hates to sit in his car seat) and my husband from San Antonio read more...

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Does Corporate PR Get It?

According to a recent Perppercom survey of marketing and public relations professionals, companies may be starting to more clearly understand the pitfalls and benefits of blogging.

Today’s Daily Dog contained the story about the survey of 210 respondents who feel that a corporate blog is an appropriate means to communicate to stakeholders.

Perceived Pitfalls of Corporate Blogging:

• Overly promotional and artificial corporate read more...

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Kitschy or Catchy? New Orleans Disaster Tours

What do you do when you lose your livelihood, your house and have to let go most of your employees (65 to 5)? The entrepreneurial start an edgy media campaign and offer an educational “disaster” tour.

Gray Line New Orleans, a tour company , will start operating a new blockbuster tour, "Hurricane Katrina -- America's Worst Catastrophe," beginning Jan. 4. The cost to go on the tour will be $35 and their will be an educational component, including some info about how the marshes have been degraded.

Here what general read more...

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Measuring Viral Campaigns and the Buzz Factor Viral campaigns are often fun and irreverent, and they seem to be something that a some public relations and marketing strategies should consider. But how do you measure their success? In the end, some experts are saying that it comes down to one question, “After viewing the campaign, would you recommend the brand behind it?” Better yet, do you know who is behind it? One fun holiday campaign running now is the “Holiday Party Excuse Generator” by Enlighten. After viewing, it took me a minute to figure out who Enlighten was (I *think* they are read more...

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