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[30 Mar 2009 | Comments Off | 19 views]

The 5th Annual New Communications Forum is slated for April 27th – 29th, 2009. Hosted at the Marriott Hotel at 4th & Mission in San Francisco, CA.
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Now celebrating its fifth year, NewComm Forum is the premier conference that brings together thought leaders and decision makers to discuss the impact of social media and emerging communication tools, technologies, and models on PR and corporate communications, …

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[25 Mar 2009 | Comments Off | 40 views]

Our PR social network has been in action for one year, as of April 1st.  I thought you might like to know how we’re doing.  I’d also appreciate your feedback on the network.  We can’t get better without hearing from your members (and those that haven’t joined, yet, too).
Here’s an update on PROpenMic‘s traffic over the first year. Only April ’08 through February ’09 (11 months) are available.
I’ve used publicly available information from Compete.com and Alexa.com.  They are services used by media buyers to determine rates for ad buys, …

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[23 Mar 2009 | 5 Comments | 48 views]

Robert Scoble doesn’t like PR or journalism.
Robert Scoble: A Citizen Journalist Contradiction
Wine Me & Dine Me (or, I’ll whine about bad PR)
Alice Marshall has a post about Robert Scoble’s recent audio blip heard round the block.
“Last Thursday’s edition of For Immediate Release contained a very troubling rant by Robert Scoble about the clueless PR pitches he has received. Scoble prefers to be pitched over dinner…” (Source) Listen for yourself. (The complete podcast is on ForImmediateRelease.biz.)

I think Alice is on to something here.
Update: George Snell notes, in comments …

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[22 Mar 2009 | Comments Off | 46 views]

A recent post by PinkMoxie, Miiko Mentz (see MiikoMentz.com and FutureWorks PR and Bub.bilicio.us), addressed a post by Jeremy Pepper in his Tumblr blog, Embargoed Release from Mindtouch.
Miiko “is the senior director of New Media & PR at FutureWorks, a social media strategy and PR firm. She also contributes, as a video producer, to Bubblicious, a blog that covers the Social Economy.”
One would think that a director of social media would be unafraid of a discussion, particularly one she started. Well, I posted on her blog in response to …