After six months (count them) of silence, I’m back publishing here. I hope you’ll forgive the lack of communications and content. I’d like to say it was a deliberate plan to recharge the blogging batteries after seven years, but the truth is simpler. I became over-committed and something had to give
Since 2004, this blog has be hosted on SixApart’s Typepad platform. At that time Typepad was the easiest way to create and manage a personal or business blog. Over the last six years, it has fallen behind other platforms, most notably Wordpress with its large community of developers. Time to jump ship. In fact, long overdue.
Just wanted to reassure all those of you who have read today’s New York Times piece, that my prolific blogging is in no way impacting my health. Running a PR firm’s a killer though. Technorati…
Silicon Valley Watcher editor, Tom Foremski, has clocked up three years as a professional ‘journalist blogger’. He left the Financial Times in May 2004, starting SVW later that summer. He was the first mainstream journalist,…
Panel at AlwaysOn with Charlene Li of Forrester, Jeff Nolan of SAP, Steve Rubel of Edelman, Brad Silver of brandimensions, and Jay Stockwell from Intelliseek/Buzzmetrics. The big question – are brands scared of losing control…
Yup, you heard it – Rough Guide which normally takes us on tours of Mexico, Japan, France etc will now give you a guided tour of the blogosphere. Keeping the guide up-to-date will be a…
In the US, it’s common to pre-brief trusted reporters prior to a key press announcement under embargo. This means the reporter can write her story and have it filed and ready to issue on the…
The humble news release has long been under scrutiny and criticism. It’s a PR tactic unchanged in many years despite the fact that many journalists prefer to ignore them. With the advent of bloggers as…
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…
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…