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Blogging since 2001, Phil Gomes is a successful, award-winning, public relations professional by day, and a writer, educator, musician, tetrapyloctomist, and terminally frustrated post-millennial armchair philosopher by night. He works as the Senior Counsel, Online Communications, at Edelman.
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- How To Behave In An Internet ForumNovember 9
- How To Behave In An Internet Forum
- Quick UpdateNovember 6
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Quick Update
So, I spent some time here:
Met this way-cool guy:
Stayed around Chicago long enough to do this:
And this.
Now back out to here, here, and here.
Learning an amazing amount... The intersection between media, cultures, education, perception, reality, opportunity, challenge, expectation, and influence.
Y'all know where to follow the action...
Technorati Tags: travel, propenmic, edelman, pr, public relations
- Instructor's Notebook: PROpenMic At Six MonthsOctober 5
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Instructor's Notebook: PROpenMic At Six Months
Cross-posted from Authenticities:
Auburn University's Robert French is to be congratulated for what he's accomplished with PROpenMic. In just six months, the site stacks up quite favorably in every measure to the likes of myragan.com (the closest thing I can compare it to) and even some other well-known PR-focused sites.I'll let Robert's analysis speak for itself. For my part, there are a number of lessons for all PR practitioners here, both new and experienced.
First, no Web 2.0 app has a "sweat equity" plugin. If you're not willing to put some serious hours and effort into building a useful digital watering hole, then it's probably a wasteful exercise.
Second, PROpenMic was a site that truly filled a need — a place where students, faculty, and practitioners can interact on a level playing field. If you don't have that — something either new, highly focused, or dramatically better — then there's not much you can do.
Third, if
- The Big Dow Drop Meets The Nanny IndexSeptember 29
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The Big Dow Drop Meets The Nanny Index
I recently read David Harsanyi's excellent book Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children. It was a thoughtful birthday gift from my folks, who thoughtfully indulge my libertarian bent with such works.
In this book, Harsanyi says that the five most frightening words than can be uttered by the typical U.S. government official are "Something needs to be done."
Starting last Friday and cresting today thanks to the stalled mega-bailout, that devilish phrase is at a six-month all-time high.
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- About The "Collapse" Of "Print": Wisdom From Tom BrittSeptember 9
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About The "Collapse" Of "Print": Wisdom From Tom Britt
Great quote from Tom over at the Edelman Digital blog:
Yes, print is alive and kicking, no matter what the newspapers tell you. Their printing presses aren't killing them, it's using them 7 days a week and losing money 5 days a week that is killing them.
