Blake retires while his feet are still wet
A sad farewell to one of the PR blogosphere’s most popular junior voices, Blake Barbera, author of Wet Feet PR. Blake has been sharing his thoughts about starting out in PR for the last year,…
Blogging
Link bonanza – early winners
Congratulations to the early winners in the May link giveaway: Duane Brown – who has a blog about gaming, PR, television, sport and some other stuff from a self-styled pop-culture freak. He’s busy knocking himself…
Upcoming events
Few things for your calendar for Valley PR types: Stirr – Wednesday May 10 (tonight) – 6pm onwards in Palo Alto – Sean Ness and gang’s mixer for entrepreneurs featuring one-minute presentations. JumpCut’s video-editing demo…
Free link giveaway
Special reader offer: I have 10 free links which I’m giving away to emerging PR bloggers to help them get started. I’m giving one to Chris Clarke at the Student PR blog, and another to…
Rainy day for TagCloud
TagCloud, the keyword navigation service, is struggling to keep up with demand. According to an announcement on its website, it now has 14,000 registered users, tracks 120,000 feeds and topped out at 6m page views…
Poll results: PRs should blog with abandon
There’s been much debate on the topic of who in the PR industry should be in charge of our ‘killer app’ (huh?). The response to this week’s poll suggests that 95% per cent of you…
Interview with James Governor of RedMonk
Quick pointer to Catherine Helzerman’s interview with James Governor, former tech reporter and founder of analyst firm, RedMonk. James provides the scoop on how RedMonk works, as well as blogging and analyst relations. Good stuff.
OnHollywood kicks off
Silicon Valley’s digerati are off to Los Angeles today for the start of the OnHollywood conference at the Roosevelt Hotel. Fifty digital media companies are demoing their latest products in front of an audience of…
Monday poll: Should PR blogging be restricted to the best-of-the-best?
In a guest post on SVW, Bite’s Daniel Bernstein suggests that ‘Every starry-eyed PR professional that blogs believes, somewhere inside, that it can make them some kind of champion of business.’ In order to protect…
Where are all the in-house PR bloggers?
Why are there so few PR bloggers who work client-side? The PR blogosphere is dominated by agency bloggers, freelancers and students. Where is the client’s voice? There are PR bloggers who work in-house, like Tom…