If you feel overloaded by the sheer volume of information available in the public relations sphere online and in your feedreader, there may be a reason. According to Constantin Basturea at PR Meets the WWW, there are currently 743 feeds devoted to the public relations worldwide. Constantin's list has gown by 34 percent over the last year. DATE FEEDS GROWTH October 22, 2006 555 April 8, 2006 674 +21% November 26, read more...
It’s About Building Relationships, Not About ‘Posing as a Typical User’
"Make new friends and keep the old..." It was a song I learned as a child, but it rings true and is especially true in this interconnected Web we call social networking. If you don't know him yet, meet Rob La Gesse, a blogger who I had the pleasure of meeting when he complained about a client. He is my personal reminder about how social media networking should function. He also came out today read more...
The Friendly Ghost is Brendan Cooper – A tech copywriter in London
Let's face it, the Friendly Ghost, who came out with his own PowerPR index (inspired by ToddAnd) had a host of things working against him:
- The blogosphere is generally suspicious of anonymity
- The PR community had been recently burned by an anonymous troll (Strumpette)
- The new index was seen as a competitor for the Power 150, and most of us like and know the person who created it
Stop Talking and Start Doing: Social Media Experimenters Crow About Successes
I've been doing a little housecleaning from last week and saw that Mike Manuel of Voce Communications called a few of us out to share the social media projects for which we are most proud. I think it is a worthwhile meme since the time for "talking" about what works in social media has long past. In fact, a few weeks ago I made a call for people to share their success read more...
PR Measurement: Much More Than Just Popularity or Relative Influence
Flemming Madison, of Onalytica, has come out with a list of PR blogs by their "relative influence" around the terms "PR" and "Blog." Flemming posits that those that make the list are influential based on these words and the relative weight of those that link to them or propagate their ideas. It is an interesting concept and as Flemming points out in his first post on the subject citation analysis has long been used by the academic field read more...