Jon Greer has been analyzing media and PR for more than 25 years. He's been a journalist and a PR executive, and has been a featured speaker for many years at the Bulldog Reporter Media Relations Summit, and served as Bulldog's Editorial Director for their PR University series of weekly...
If you're reading this blog, you probably "get" social media to some degree. Isn't it amazing how few people you know actually read blogs or other fast-changing online media on a regular basis? It does tend to put a damper on one's enthusiasm for social media, that's for sure. ...
Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek.com caused quite a stir a few weeks ago when she conducted an on-stage interview of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW and asked a lot of off-the-wall questions that the tech-heavy audience thought was disrespectful and irrelevant. They were posting their thoughts from the auditorium on...
A bad idea whose time has come: Kodak has named a "Chief Blogger" whose job is to "provide daily oversight and creative guidance for Kodak's two blogs – 'A Thousand Words' and 'A ...
Last week, we started the conversation about the Social Media Release, a new-fangled form of press release that is supposedly more effective for bloggers and other Internet users than the current model. Today was the audio seminar sponsored by Vocus on the subject, featuring Thom Brodeur from...
The Social Media Release is a new press release template that attempts to provide bloggers and other Internet media with news release information in a completely new format. There's a lot of talk about this subject in PR 2.0 circles, and you can get in on some...
General Motors has enough problems that it didn't need another one. But in an effort to do something good -- jump into the social media world with its ambitious GMnext site -- it created some new problems for itself. The story is a cautionary tale for marketers seeking to harness...
I'm spending more and more time on Facebook. It's an amazing social media phenomenon. First and foremost is the fact that everyone or virtually everyone is on Facebook under their real identity. So you have some idea of who you are dealing with. Secondly, it's an incredibly dynamic and rich...
One of the most intriguing and disruptive elements of the social media revolution is that the creation of social media can happen anywhere, at anytime. For instance, I recently researched, wrote and published a Catching Flack post while riding in the back seat of a taxi headed to San...
To judge by the amount of interest PR people have in social media and new communications technologies, you'd think that these forms of mass communication had completely overtaken traditional media as the dominant way that most people get their news, information and entertainment. It just isn't so....
Corporate communicators and their agencies see the great opportunity afforded by the social media environment. From customer engagement to reputation management, much of the PR professional's job now takes place online. But to really participate in dialogue and effect change requires buy-in from the C-suite. ...
If you're looking to learn more or solve some problems regarding social media, Shel Holtz has recently posted a great online resource list of social media information. There are primers on social media and articles on blogs, podcasts, and social media demographics, as well as links to...
Jon Greer has been analyzing media and PR for more than 25 years. He's been a journalist and a PR executive, and has been a featured speaker for many years at the Bulldog Reporter Media Relations Summit, and served as Bulldog's Editorial Director for their PR University series of weekly...
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