A Buyer's Guide for Virtual Server Backup is Coming...

As the Universe gets ready for VMworld in San Francisco next week, I had a chance to sit down (virtually) this week with Jerome Wendt, lead analyst & President at DCIG and Bob Eastman, managing director, Research at SMB Research, LLC to discuss their upcoming Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide. Jerome, Bob, you both are well underway on your latest Buyer’s Guide, this time on virtual server backup software. What are you hoping to accomplish with this Buyer’s Guide?...

A Hat Tip To Spur Discussion

A while back, Paul Roberts, a PR practitioner and all around good Twitterer (@paulrobertspar), asked an open-ended question, “Which delivers more value, PR agencies or in-house PR departments?" in a blog he wrote here. In the interest of full disclosure I can’t vouch for Paul outside Twitter, but based on his profile I feel like we’d have more than a few things in common aside from PR and social media, including (bad) golf. I would have thought the question he...

WSJ or Blog? Can you tell the difference anymore?

"Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story?!" Ben Bradlee yelled at his Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein in the "All The President's Men" movie depiction of that newspaper's exposure of the Watergate scandal in 1976. That sentence and that film impressed me greatly, as a fresh young journalism graduate. I remember being fascinated by the requirement of the two journalists to build their story on facts backed up by named sources. Interestingly, I...

Sometimes it doesn’t take much to do a corporate blog

Many of us at LP&P were talking about the recent blog post by the team at JetBlue. If you haven’t read it, you should. It's here for reference. Mostly because it’s a good approach at saying no comment but in a tactful and appropriate way. What struck many of us was the way the comments were being used as a way to connect to the community but also have best practices discussed in such an appropriate manner. It may not...

Fame-seekers need not apply

I was off the grid for a few days doing real world things that can't be done online, like helping my youngest check out colleges. I noticed an errant tweet about someone named Steve Slater, but didn't hear the whole story about the JetBlue flight attendant who made a dramatic exit, complete with inflatable slide and beer-in-hand, after a confrontation with a passenger, until I returned to work and heard the water cooler buzz. My immediate thought was not that...

Is Forbes playing catch-up or doing something new?

We've been following the changes at Forbes.com as another gauge on the evolution of journalism. They are coming quickly because of the appointment earlier this year of Lewis DVorkin as editorial director of Forbes.com. Jessica Sutera recently weighed in on the first of DVorkin's major moves to open Forbes to guest blog posts outside of their regular staff of paid freelancers and contributors. While we said that it is merely the latest in the slow transition of traditional media properties...

RIM Plays Rope-a-dope

It was fascinating to watch the smartphone wars live and in color yester as they raged around RIM's announcement of its new OS and Blackberry Torch. Rumors have been rampant about the pending announcement. Even before the actual announcement occurred in New York on today, data emerged about Blackberry users preferring iPhones or Droid devices, along with reports that the United Arab Emirates were set to shut down Blackberry service in their region because RIM would not allow their government...