Breaking news: I have 300 ‘friends’

By on November 20th, 2008 In Social Media

Last night I “friended” two more people on Facebook and noticed I had now reached 300 friends on the social networking site. My initial thought was, if I died, how many of these so-called friends would show up to my funeral? Of course I made a snarky comment about this milestone on my Facebook status [...]

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Would you customize your pitch to these guys?

By on November 20th, 2008 In Hype!

What if you or your organization had to send letters to President Bush, Henry Paulson an Nancy Pelosi. Would you send them the same form letter, only changing the salutation? We all get pitched by the robo-PR types and promptly assign them to the spam filter, raising cain now and then. So someone should have [...]

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BMA social media event 11/20

By on November 19th, 2008 In Professional Development

The Phoenix chapter of the Business Marketing Assoc. (www.bmaphoenix.org) will be hosting a social media discussion with PerfSpot’s Hart Cunningham at its monthly meeting. More info from BMA: This month’s event will be on Thursday, November 20th, from 3pm to 4:30p at Jobing.com (22nd St. and Camelback). Please click here to register. Title: How to [...]

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Panel discussion on expanded role of PR

By on November 19th, 2008 In Professional Development

We have all attended panels where the “role or PR” has been discussed, but I wanted to point you to a podcast that you might like to fire you up on your commute. It’s a panel on the live call-in show of For Immediate Release, the podcast of Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson. The discussion [...]

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Are you socially acceptable?

By on November 19th, 2008 In Professional Development

Valley PR Blog’s own Charlotte Risch of Phoenix-based PR firm The Media Push, and Amanda Blum of marketing and design firm Howling Zoe Productions, are taking a hands-on approach to teach Valley businesses how to best publicize themselves in the Web 2.0 world. This dynamic duo is hosting a workshop called “Are you Socially Acceptable.” [...]

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PR people are liars

By on November 18th, 2008 In Hype!

Yikes! Yahoo PR people called “lying sacks of sh**”. I really don’t know much of the bigger story or backgrounds about Yahoo, Newsweek, the tech world in this post. But not really fond of the vicious words describing the industry of PR from bloggers and comments. According to Valleywag blogger, Owen Thomas PR people routinely lie; [...]

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