Boing Boing Goes Bye-Bye In Boston
Government censorship rarely makes people happy, and in Boston, residents got the chance to prove this when Boing Boing, the “directory of wonderful things,” appeared to be banned from the New England city’s free WiFi network. Yet new evidence indicates that the city of Boston had little, if anything, to do with the ban.
PR 2.0 Takes the Stage at Web 2.0 Expo
I was invited to moderate a panel at the Web 2.0 Expo entitled, "PR 2.0: Dead as a Doornail, or Still Alive?
Define, Test, Measure, Repeat – Successful Blogging
The key to success in blogging, whether you want to make money, gain more subscribers, or increase visitor engagement is to constantly test new strategies.
With A/B testing and using web analytics to measure its performance anyone can move closer to their ideal formula of success. Here are a few suggestions you can try testing within your blog:
Social Networking Not Close to Death
Alex Krupp, whose blog I haven’t come across before, makes a lot of sense in his latest post about social networking (which is fitting, since his blog is called Sensemaking). He notes that the term “social network” has become so over-sold that it now causes many venture capitalists to run screaming in the opposite direction, and startups are pitching their businesses in cliched Hollywood movie terms: It’s like MySpace meets Flickr, or Facebook meets Pornotube.
Social Media & Keeping the Conversation Going
If you followed the Stowe Boyd kerfuffle a few months ago – the one in which he says, broadly, that PR people don’t “get it” regarding social media – you’ll be interested in listening to Stowe talking to Eric Schwartzman in the latest
Employee Engagement (Defining it)
Does anyone agree what employee engagement is? asks David Ferrabee.
Extradited Software Pirate Pleads Guilty
The leader of one of the oldest and most well known Internet software piracy groups, Hew Raymond Griffiths has pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement charges, in one of the first extraditions for an intellectual property offense.
Griffiths, a British national living in Bateau Bay, Australia was extradited in February 2007 to face charges in U.S. District Court.
Live Blogging – A Next Step
The kerfuffle over live blogging isn’t likely to subside any time soon, given the growing popularity of live online communication. Add audio and video to the mix and the people who hold live blogging in disdain are likely to go apopleptic.
Don’t Ignore Blogger Outreach
The issue of blogger outreach has been on the minds of several communication-focused bloggers in the last few days. Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba, from the Church of the Customer blog, posted an item that advised against blogger outreach of any kind:
Google Ranks First In Branding Power
A study by research firm Millard Brown and the Financial Times of the world’s top 100 brands found Google ranked highest in dollar value for the brand.