Microsoft’s PR Firm Makes Ironic Blunder
An experienced public relations firm can be just what the doctor ordered when you’re trying to inject a positive message about a new product or service into the collective consciousness of the media. There are rare occasions, however, when PR professionals make the kind of mistakes that you just can’t help but laugh at.
Vendor Thoughts On Cisco & Web Conferencing
When Cisco made its announcement about purchasing WebEx on March 15, competing web conferencing software vendor iLinc rushed out a press release the following day, talking about the news from their perspective. This got me wondering what other vendors might have to say about theshakeup in the market. I decided to contact several of them in different niches of the industry and see what they felt like sharing.
Bullying & Cyberbullying
Bullying is a serious issue. It makes people feel bad, makes them do things that they might not necesarily want to do, and forces people’s hands. Cyberbullying is worse – it takes all those things, puts them online in blogs or journals or social networks, and ramps it up a level via emails, Twitters and text messaging, and instant messages.
Yahoo Raises The Email Stakes
Beginning in May, Yahoo email users will have unlimited storage available to keep all of their messages and attachments in the service.
John McCain Embarrassed On MySpace
Somebody on the Arizona Senator and Presidential candidate’s campaign staff has some explaining to do about a change to McCain’s profile on MySpace.
TiVo and Home Movie Sharing
TiVo.com | TiVo Home Movie Sharing Today TiVo launched a cool new service called "Home Movies" in a joint venture with One True Media.
Yahoo Getting the Mobile Lead on Google
Yahoo has a bunch of efforts underway in the mobile space, and they’ve announced the launch of their new mobile ad network. I’ve been using the Yahoo! Go OneSearch mobile product for a couple of months now, and really have enjoyed it. It will be interesting to see how Yahoo’s mobile ad network grows as more publishers embrace the growing mobile space.
Ad Networks: Top-Tier vs. Lower-Tier
Mike Seiman of CPX Interactive has written a nice guest blog post on the Right Media Blog about the untapped opportunity of working with “Lower-Tier” ad networks and reevaluating what they can do for you.
Online Reputation Management Basics
As much time and effort that marketers put into improving visibility within search results, not all search engine ranking pages (SERPs) are good. Increasing numbers of companies are experiencing the sharp edge of the sword from disgruntled employees or customers taking advantage of the amazingly simplistic process of publishing content to the web.
Q&A – Google Sitemaps and Frames
Dear Kalena…
I have two sites; One www.alpine-property.com is top of Google rankings for all my chosen keywords, it has no frames, daily updated content and lots of inbound links, so not surprising.