If you’re a PR professional, you can’t afford not to listen to On the Record…Online. For the past three years, this podcast has offered a steady stream insight on how journalists, marketers and new media innovators use the Internet to report the news and promote their businesses. Host Eric Schwartzman has anchored all 120 programs [...]
Entries Tagged as 'events'
64: The Spinfluencer
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · PR, Uncategorized, events, interview, socialmedia
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62: Brogan on Online Living
June 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · events, interview, socialmedia, socialnetwork
Chris Brogan is all about social media. The engineer-turned-marketer has one of the largest Twitter followings, is an active blogger and co-founded the Podcamp series of unconferences, which have been held in more than 40 countries. He currently crafts the content for CrossTech Media’s growing conference series, but he mainly publishes in media of all [...]
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52: Anniversary Party
April 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · PR, blogs, commentary, events, interview, newspapers, search, socialmedia, socialnetwork, trade journalism
It’s our birthday! And in recognition of this, our 52nd weekly podcast (okay, so we missed one or two weeks) we convene a roundtable discussion of the new world of business communications. The stars aligned perfectly: David was in Boston on a speaking tour and some of our best friends and colleagues from our years [...]
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50: The Social Media Think Tank
March 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · PR, events, interview, socialmedia
The Society for New Communications Research has been studying social media since before the term was created. Founded by veteran publicist Jen McClure in 2004, the nonprofit group known affectionately to its members as “snicker” now counts more than 40 futurists, scholars, business leaders, communicators and other new-media professionals as research fellows. Its signature event [...]
Four great trade show tips
February 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · PR, commentary, events, trade journalism
Evan Schuman (TPRWS 39) of StorefrontBacktalk.com has spent a lot of time at trade shows lately and he sent us these four tips for getting the most out of media contacts. We like them all, but we think #3 and #4 are particularly good! Evan writes: Most interviews today are done on the phone and [...]
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39: Pitches, deadlines, and trade shows
December 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · PR, commentary, events, interview, trade journalism
This week our guest is Evan Schuman, who is the retail editor for eWeek and author of the blog www.storefrontbacktalk.com on retail technologies. Evan has worked for Ziff and CMP for more than 20 years in various capacities, both for print and online media. He talks to David and Paul about how PR pitch him [...]
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35: Second Life with Mike Azzara
November 14th, 2007 · No Comments · events, virtual worlds
Our guest this week is Mike Azzara, a former CMP publishing executive who has gobs of experience with online and print publishing. We talk about ways that businesses can leverage the presence and immediacy of the virtual world Second Life, something that Mike has spent some time “in-world,” as devotees say. He talks about the [...]
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31: Scott Kirsner talks shop
October 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · PR, blogs, commentary, events, newspapers, socialmedia, socialnetwork
This week, Paul and Dave are joined by Scott Kirsner, a Boston Globe columnist, freelance writer, blogger and conference organizer. As a writer who’s had significant experience in both mainstream and new media, Scott understands the power of each to shape opinion in different ways.Scott sees greater convergence happening between newspapers and citizen journalists, but [...]
30: Feel the love
October 13th, 2007 · No Comments · PR, events, trade journalism
Paul and David talk about the best PR practices they’ve ever encountered. Paul recounts his experience with one firm that arranged a CIO roundtable and ended up with a three-page magazine spread. David lauds the organizers of a user conference for really celebrating their customers. Both hosts agree on the value of using customers to [...]
61: We’re Grumpy This Week
June 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · PR, commentary, events, socialmedia, socialnetwork
Paul’s been on the road, and he recently took a tour of the pressroom at the Los Angeles Times, a newspaper that’s been awash in controversy. Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell has made it clear that he intends to measure journalists increasingly by the volume of their output. David and Paul think this is a [...]
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