PR News is a pretty big deal. They’re much more than just a magazine for PR practitioners. They offer webinars, books, conferences, job boards — the full slate of services. And one other thing they offer? Awards. Lots and lots of awards. Awards are cool. Getting one makes you feel good about your work, or…
At long last, the telltale signs are in the air. The seasons are changing once again. This time, the air is crisp, the sun dips lower on the horizon, the leaves turn into a brilliant fireworks display of nature’s beauty, and the smell of roasting green chile mixed with a faint mixing of firewood wafts…
This is a tale of hubris. Over the next few days, expect to read many articles in many publications about Digg and what happened to it. Once arguably the most powerful single website on the Internet, Digg was able to drive massive amounts of server-crushing traffic. In recent months, however, Digg was sold away piecemeal…
Over on his Google+ page, blogger Robert Scoble called out Twitter as the new social media ghost town. This was (kinda) in response to numerous respected sources saying the same thing about Scoble’s beloved Google+. In his piece, Scoble cited various reasons why he felt Twitter was a ghost town. These include follower numbers not…
A lot of social media purists will tell you that you’re the spawn of the devil if you use automation. To truly use social media properly, you have to “be there” constantly, otherwise you’re just fooling yourself and your connections. I call bullshit. Maybe to the purists and “experts” that are on Twitter and Google+…