I write about strategies to turn fans into customers and customers into fans. I also share ways to use real-time strategies to spread ideas, influence minds, and build business.
I'm getting more email pitches that start out with "Dear Blogger".
Last month I had an opportunity to tour the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio with David M. DeFelice, Community Relations Team Lead. We checked out some way cool space research facilities and got to hold the first baseball used as the World Series ceremonial firs...
Yesterday, Yahoo! announced a reorganization of top management. The press release is choked with cutting-edge, innovative, industry-standard gobbledygook.
I've spent the last week worried about a long-planned trip to New York City. Hearing about the pending Hurricane Irene messed up a schedule I had organized. But I needed to be in New York for an engagement on Monday.
Yesterday HubSpot, a social media marketing company, acquired oneforty a company that created a directory of social media applications and the social media marketing tool SocialBase.
UPDATE: Craig Kallin, Senior Vice President of Marketing Services for Acsys Interactive commented on the blog post. Thanks, Craig.
I have been both a journalist and a public relations practitioner so I have an advantage when thinking about the ways that you can use real-time content to get mentioned in the media.
I've said many times that the best way to reach reporters is when they are looking for what you have. It's real-time communication with reporters when they are working on a story that gets you (or your clients) into the news.