Here I sit blogging in my hotel room at the Renaissance in Austin, Texas before a full day of search and social marketing brain dump at Pubcon South. Immediately after that is SXSWi for a few days. A few days after that it’s NYC for a PRSA thing followed by SES New York.  I speak at 15 plus e...

Comment is Free today published my piece on Chas. Freeman’s withdrawal.  I wanted to expand on a few points in it.  The NY Times characterizes Aipac’s Josh Block as saying the following about the group’s involvement in the anti-Freeman campaign: Joshua Block, a spokesman for the ...

McGrath worked at a PR agency and sent out the usual PR request to bloggers to generate a bit of buzz. One blogger, Borsch, got pissed and sent a not too happy email back. McGrath acted like a decent human being and apologised and asked how he should go about it. Apparently this is against the PR pr...

…social networking sites and social media including FaceBook, Linkedin, and Twitter for cancer, heart attacks, lupus, dementia and more? As a sales performance specialist, author, speaker, and someone who loves connecting people; I’m one of the biggest proponents of networking and social...

Last week the Sunday NY Times Real Estate section ran a story Adjectives get Evicted, which described how the language is changing in real estate based on the economic climate:Not only are there fewer buyers today, but they are more......

Last summer I started a MySpace account and a Facebook account. My goal was to experiment with these social networking services to promote HRmarketer.com and my children's book. Less than 15 minutes after I registered with MySpace I was contacted by an attractive young woman wanting to be my "friend...

David Spark is a veteran tech journalist and founder of Spark Media Solutions, a firm that helps companies build their industry voice through storytelling and social media. His technology report, The Spark Minute, can be heard every day on Green 960 and 910 KNEW in San Francisco. When I was working ...

Here’s a repost from a blog post I did for e-Storm International (where I work) from two weeks ago about  Intuit PR issue regarding Intuit’s letter inquiring about Mint’s user base. _________________________________ Leaking of Intuit’s Letter to Mint.com and the Fallout This mor...

Silicon Valley companies of all sizes are cutting staff and things are getting worse and this is trend is also hitting the PR community. It almost seems as if everyone has suddenly become a "consultant" at the same time. In some cases, the "consultants" have been rehired by the companies they used t...

Silicon Valley companies of all sizes are cutting staff and things are getting worse and this is trend is also hitting the PR community. It almost seems as if everyone has suddenly become a "consultant" at the same time. In some cases, the "consultants" have been rehired by the companies they used t...