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[31 Mar 2005 | Comments Off | 0 views]

I’ve been afraid of this. Koppel is one of the few class acts left at ABC. His career allows him to go anywhere and do anything. But, I will miss ‘his’ Nightline. I hope CNN spaps him up and continues the program – for two hours.
mediabistro: TVNewser
End Of An Era: Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel To Leave ABC News In December
ABC News President David Westin broke the news in an e-mail to staffers this morning:
“After 42 years with ABC News and 25 years as …

Blog Talk, Marketing, Teaching PR »

[31 Mar 2005 | Comments Off | 1 views]

Sure, Easter has come and gone. But, following blogs like HispanicTrending enables me to learn things about other cultures that I’d never experience. Check out this interesting article about another ’shopping season’ that I’d never heard of before.
HispanicTrending
Easter Brings More than Eggs to Your Basket
March 3, 2005
By Erika Prosper
Retailers, get your engines started. It’s going to be Easter soon (March 27). Are you ready for the Latinos about to swarm your stores?
Yes, specifically Mexican nationals who take the yearly pilgrimage across the border each Easter to buy, …

Blog Talk, Poliblogs »

[30 Mar 2005 | Comments Off | 0 views]

No, this isn’t a Jessica Culter type of story. But, there is an intern blog involved.
How would you like to be the PA handling this for any of the interested parties?
A Tennessee state representative, Stacey Campfield, has started a blog in Knoxville. It is not sitting well with old school Knoxville politicos. The silliest part is how an intern may have tried to get into the fray by anonymously answering Campfield in their own blog.
Campfield’s posts that have raised the most ire? Tempest in a Tea …

CMS, RSS, Teaching PR, Technology, Why a blog, Wiki »

[28 Mar 2005 | One Comment | 0 views]

Just re-tried the Blog:CMS platform. It has been upgraded and now comes with a fully integrated – one time install – “state-of-the-art weblog (multiple, if you wish), forum, wiki engine, news aggregator (atom / rss), and photo gallery.”
The new platform fully integrates BLOG:CMS with PubBB forums and DocuWiki. All are PHP/mySQL based and a breeze to install. Took about 30 minutes the first time out. Now, after figuring out just one glitch, I’d say it could be done in 15 minutes – easy.
Gotta’ say, it is …