Archive for May 1st, 2006

PR Dependance on Email

Monday, May 1st, 2006

A recent poll at Morgan McLintock’s blog suggested email is overused:

82% of you think that PR consultants are too dependent on email. We use
it for pitching the media and bloggers, for updating clients, for team
organization, agency management, partner relations - the list goes on.
In fact, when the email server goes down, many PRs don’t know [...]

Podcast.com and OPML

Monday, May 1st, 2006

We’re about to see a remarkable change in the way we share our podcast rolls.  In fact, they may become as ubiquitous as the blogroll:
Podcast.com plans to utilize OPML to allow for easy transfer of podcast
feeds AND to allow for display on your website, dynamically.  Imagine
an easy to display blogroll of your podcast feeds that [...]

Intel Blogger Talks On The Importance Of His Job

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Intel is in the news because they are cutting jobs, or are about to do so.  When Josh Bancroft, one of Intel’s biggest blog champions, mentioned this on his blog, one of his comments (anonymous) suggested his job was part of ‘the fat’ that Intel should trim.
Of course, any of your in marketing or PR [...]

Business Blogrolls

Monday, May 1st, 2006

That is the question from Des Walsh. He wants to know if businesses should be blogrolling?
I’ve heard it argued that having other people’s links on your blog
could be detrimental to your business, in that people are in effect
being encouraged to leave your blog and visit elsewhere. On the other
hand, some would argue that a [...]

IE 7 Podcast

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Microsoft has launched their Internet Explorer 7 Beta, again, and this time they are hoping a broader base of users will help them test their favorite browser.
I’ve been testing IE7 for a few months now, and I’m mostly impressed.  There are a few things I’d change, but all of the changes could be fixed with [...]