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Beyond Blogging
By: Mistie Thompson
09/28/2007 - Presenter: David Parmet, Marketing Begins At Home --If you're in PR/marketing and not blogging/engaging with bloggers, you're probably still working on a manual typewriter. --David says when PR agencies start blogging, internal change happens - instead of paying lip service to social media, they really…
Customer Relationships with the Rabid Crowd
By: Marijean Jaggers
09/28/2007 - Presenter: Jake McKee Jake used to work for a little company called LEGO. He addresses the customer relationship: "What we're talking about at the end of the day are relationships. Long term connections. The hope is that the idea that starts as a conversation ends…
Personal Advice from Shel Israel
By: Marijean Jaggers
09/28/2007 - I accomplished my first mission of the day: obtaining Shel Israel's autograph on my beloved copy of Naked Conversations. The bonus to the exchange was a thoughtful conversation with Israel in which he imparted some sage advice. I told him about the struggle of dragging…
Crisis Communications
By: Mistie Thompson
09/28/2007 - Laurie Mayers, MS&L - works with General Motors on crisis communications GM has several blogs - FastLane is most well known GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is most popular blogger Have five-person blog team - meet weekly Recently started doing video blogging GM blogging under…
Liveblogging from BlogOrlando
By: Marijean Jaggers
09/28/2007 - Today, Mistie and I will be liveblogging, covering the BlogOrlando unconference sessions as much as possible. We hope you'll follow along with our quickly written, lightly edited posts as we're trying to capture the moment, to share what we're hearing as it happens. Tag: BlogOrlando
Blogger Relations
By: Marijean Jaggers
09/28/2007 - Tom Biro led the Nikon D80 blogger outreach program and addressed the topic of blogger relations for BlogOrlando. Thought starters: Journalists -- how to approach them. Press releases -- should we send them to bloggers? Where do I get a list (of bloggers)? Worst. Question.…
A Reader Query: Who Gets the Byline?
By: Marijean Jaggers
09/27/2007 - The "Where Do You Stand?" team is very interested in hearing from readers regarding reputation management issues you may be experiencing with your business. That's why I was delighted today when a reader contacted me with a PR scenario. "Elizabeth" operates a (non-PR) professional services…
Geekipedia
By: Maria Donaldson
09/27/2007 - Wired magazine's Geekipedia landed in mailboxes, of the physical kind, this month. A supplement to the monthly edition of Wired, the Geekipedia outlines "149 people, places, ideas and trends you need to know now." Aside from the obvious Facebook, MySpace, Flash, Googleverse and iPhone definitions,…
Getting to Know You Part II: Team Work
By: Susan Iskiwitch
09/26/2007 - Lunch with Jadea and Patrick was a bit different than lunch with Beth and Maria. Firstly, we went to a restaurant where wearing denim is highly discouraged. This significantly cramped Patrick's style—even when he wears a tie and dress shirt, he wears jeans and Converse…
The Gospel According to Scoble and Israel
By: Marijean Jaggers
09/26/2007 - I've just finished reading Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, in preparation for (life, and) Shel Israel's keynote address at Friday's BlogOrlando unconference. I was very jazzed by the book -- it provides great thinking behind corporate blogging; who…
