I may have moved to the worst city—ever!—for dating, but at least it's the manliest based on "the number of U.S.-made cars driven in the city, number of sports bars and BBQ restaurants, number of home improvement and hardware stores as well as manly salty snacks consumption."...

I produce a YouTube show about media literacy/criticism. Right now we post weekly, on a schedule which is driving me insane. Does frequency of publishing new content matter (whether it's for a blog, a podcast, a comic, etc) so long as you publish regularly? Could I do it every other week or monthly ...

Aussie techster and mate o’ mine Leigh Mannes, flags a techy PR disaster where Belkin was caught ‘incentivising’ favourable blog comment ( $0.65 a go ). After being outed, the PR response was swift with a Belkin honcho insisting it was an isolated incident. Errm…maybe not say...

Now a fair dinkum Aussie, I love the concept of ‘keeping the bastards honest’. Three of my fellow Aussies’ - Ryan Junee, Julian Frumar and Simon Ratner - Omnisio service, lets users annotate online videos, mash-up vision and synchronise Slideshare presentations to many clips they find on the w...

A close friend of mine Ryan Petersen recently became the managing director at a start-up based out of Scottsdale, Arizona called ImportGenius, a Web application that allows you to search international trade records to find out where your competitors are buying their products overseas, Ryan and I go ...

Our presser went out today announcing the initial conclusions from our research into the ‘ROI of Online Press Releases.’ The top-line findings included: Press releases are increasingly a tool for marketing and sales - The press release is becoming a communications tool for both public re...

Andy Sernovitz’s blog’s name says it all, and definitely reflects my response to reading this: Damn, I Wish I’d Thought of That! , especially in his post Instant Word of Mouth for Restaurants. From our experience doing blogger outreach and blogger gift-giving, this is on-the-money advice you s...

I was pretty hard on a so-called PR practitioner whose bad blog pitch went awry and got him into social media trouble. So, I thought perhaps we should take a crack at helping PR people who would like to pitch bloggers but don’t know how. Ogilvy PR developed its own outreach code of ethics, which i...

I’m sorry I missed Euroblog 2008 it looked like a great event with a great line-up. I have made a personal commitment to try and get out a bit more. There’s no question that this new online communications stuff is important. It’s not just important for PR people it’s has pret...

I disagree. I don’t see this trend happening this soon. Most local businesses have yet to become web conscientious. They may or may not have a web site. They haven’t even begun to think of a ‘web strategy’. If they did, I’d be a millionaire. If you’re reading this...