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...
You've probably heard about the "Long Tail" theory of the web -- that instead of needing to rely on big hits, businesses on the web could expect to see a trickle of steady business as people in need of their products or services used the web to find them. But...
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...
Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed on stage at the SXSWi conference by former BusinessWeek journalist and author Sarah Lacy. It didn't go well -- Lacy, who can be a bit of a smarty pants, was channeling her inner David Letterman, asking off-the-wall questions, interrupting Zuckerberg...
Another great Bulldog Reporter audio seminar today on the subject of "writing PR copy for the web." I was a panelist on this call, and I welcome any listeners who found the Catching Flack blog through the call. Since the web is such an interactive medium, our...
The Internet is changing the definition of "old media" right before our eyes, according to a panel of journalists who work for "old media" but have jobs on their web sites. Panelists Daniel Gaines, Editorial Operations Manager of latimes.com, Keith Jenkins, Newsroom Multimedia Director of the...