Boston Blogs Too!

In this morning's Boston Globe Scott Kirsner was kind enough to highlight one of our blog posts about Twitter in his Monday Business column called Blog Filter. I point this out at the risk of being considered a "Self-Promoting Narcissist," one of the Twitter Personas I outlined in the blog post he points to in his column. It's great to see Scott's weekly compilation of interesting posts from Boston area bloggers. One of the other posts he references this week...

We Tweet, We Link In, We Friend, but E-Mail Still Piles Up

As I was digging out after a week away, I found an interesting post from David Pogue in response to a reader who asked him how "public figures" like Pogue and Mark Cuban handle responses to emails, as this individual was soon to be a public figure. Pogue quickly noted that it has nothing to do with Mark Cuban or himself, in particular, but he was happy to answer the questions posed by the reader, as follows: A) How many...

IR Gets Social, part two

To follow on my post about the NIRI conference I attended earlier this month, I wanted to provide some additional thoughts from John White of the SEC. White addressed the evolving regulatory landscape with a particular focus on interactive data and using corporate web sites to disseminate investor information. White's discussion of hyperlinking and the SEC's initial thoughts on it stuck with me. As we incorporate more and more linking and tagging into the information that we distribute on behalf...

More evolution of IT media

I'm stuck in Newark (what a surprise) traveling back from setting another client on course with social media. So, while catching up on e-mail I could not help but notice a couple of updates about changes with the media and was struck by the juxtaposition of old and new. Both changes speak to the shifts taking place in the landscape of media reaching the enterprise IT buying community. TechCrunch continued its expansion by launching a new site, TechCrunchIT, which is...

Where Google still is playing catch-up

Two items hitting my attention streams today got me thinking again about the fiercest competition in technology now -- that between Yahoo! and Google. There's no doubt that Google is winning the search war, but it's interesting to look inside the uber fight and at where Yahoo! is winning the battles. These include the areas of finance and news. The New York Times had a lengthy analysis today of Google News, characterizing the service as suffering from stagnant growth. It...

What's your Twitter Persona?

As I continue (less frequently many days) with the Twitter experiment, I am finding it a fascinating case study of the wide-ranging human styles of communication. I have summarized them below for your amusement on this sunny near-summer afternoon: The "Pay Attention: I Don't Tweet for My Own Amusement" -- I actually enjoy these the most. These are usually the credentialed journalists who only tweet when they have something decent to share -- usually an article that teaches you something...

NBA Finals Provide Stage for Image and Reputation Loss and Rehabilitation

Today in Boston we celebrate the Boston Celtics 17th NBA Championship by honoring the team with a parade through the city. In a city that is now used to winning, this championship victory brought a little extra sweetness because it happened at home; was over its most hated foe, the Lakers; and it capped off a remarkable year in which the franchise completed a 180 degree turnaround from worst season ever to one of the greatest in its storied history....

Avoiding Disaster with a Little Help from Your Friends

As a PR professional, I know better than to promote my clients’ technology on our own blog. But I might make an exception today based on the coverage of the disastrous flooding going on in the Midwest right now. I ran across a blog this week talking about how The American Red Cross is now relying on various social media widgets to exchange vital information during natural disasters. Apparently these tools have been extremely helpful handling the flood crisis along...

Podcast: Commentary on the All Things Digital conference

Today, we bring you episode 5 of our Beyond the Hype podcast series. In this segment, Cheryl Travis chats with Lois Paul about last month’s All Things Digital, or D conference, hosted by the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. They discuss the highlights of this exclusive conference. Lois shares how she goes to D because of the enormous respect she has for Mossberg. "You can just see it - Walt revels in this," she said. "It is...

IR Gets Social

I attended the NIRI 2008 Annual Conference last week in San Diego and quickly realized that the investor relations community is facing the same challenges the PR community faced as the use of social media escalated. There were sessions and discussion groups on the role of social media, and particularly blogs, in IR. As it turns out, there are a handful of companies on the cutting edge that have worked blogging with their investor community into the mix of communications....