Drew B's take on tech PR

All things PR

An new UK blog has kicked off called All Things PR. It's written by in-house PR man Sam Oakley, from York, who says this about his techno-political PR blog:

I want this blog to become a forum for young aspiring PR people. The idea is that this will become a place where new PR people can use their lack of experience to free their creativity.

Great to see more PR blos starting up... that column from Danny Rogers is doing the trick :-)

"People from Montana are lazy and love to feed their faces"

There's a fantastic article in today's Guardian Weekend magazine that's had me splitting my sides, on how Americans view the UK (and a lot of other stuff). It's a tongue-in-cheek poke at how peculiar Brits are, and how stupid Americans are. Of course neither of those stereotypes are true - but anyway, here's an excerpt of the article:

To get to Britain, you fly over several oceans, including the Atlantic. I think also Missouri? I did not see very much of the Atlantic or Missouri or whatever because, as we passed over, I was watching a movie on our aeroplane, called Dumb And Dumber. It was funny. It is about these two guys who are dumb. Then we were served dinner. I was next to a guy from Spain! All he did was sleep. The Spanish, I concluded, are a lazy people, prone to sleep, who do not enjoy movies. When he finally woke up, I gave him a cookie I had saved for him, because I did not like it. He enjoyed that cookie, that's for sure! That's one thing one can conclude about the Spanish: they certainly love to feed their faces. Then it turned out he wasn't Spanish at all, but a fellow American, from Montana! I guess I learned a valuable lesson about generalising: people from Montana are lazy and love to feed their faces.

A book on corporate blogging on the way

PR man John Cass has been signed up to author a book on corporate blogging - and taking a sabbatical to write it. You can read more about the project here.

Sacked for blogging - Petite Anglaise's side of the story

The Comment is Free blog has published an article from Catherine S, aka sacked blogger Petite Anglaise. Just a day into the blog buzz about Petite Anglaise being sacked for blogging, she is telling her side of the story. Nice to see such rapid response. You can also read the initial takes on this story from earlier today on Robert Scoble's blog comments and from Tuesday in The Telegraph.

links for 2006-07-20

• NBC launches "Nightly News" video blog | Technology | Reuters.co.uk
  After more than a year with the pioneering "Daily Nightly" blog, "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams is expanding to a video blog that will give a quick glimpse at the day's top stories by mid-morning.
• Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs
  About 77 percent of blog authors, or "bloggers," said they post to express themselves creatively rather to get noticed or paid, according to the report, released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Everyone else's five social media technologies

My five tagged bloggers have come back to me with their favourite social media tools on the Meme Jon started last week. I started looking through new favourites that I've now come across, so I thought it would be a good idea to put them all together in one place:

Simon Bisson: Newsgator, Trillian, Livejournal, Semagic, Flickr
Bobbie Johnson: Moveable Type, NetNewsWire, MarsEdit
Danny Bradbury: Furl, Del.icio.us, Attensa, Wordpress, BlogDesk
Iain Delaney: Bloglines, BlinkList, Opera RSS reader
Simon Collister: Google, RSS, Feedburner, YouTube, MySpace

... and a few other people that have picked up on the meme through being tagged by one of us...
Charles Arthur: NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, Technorati, Google Blog Search, Camino, Wordpress, Spam Karma 2
Niall Cook: humour, reality, respect, perspective, independence :-)
Antony Mayfield: Bloglines, Firefox, Microsoft OneNote, Qumana, Google Blog Search
David Terrar: Wordpress, Qumana, Technorati, Crispynews, Statcounter
Dennis Howlett: NetNewsWire, Ecto, Technorati, CrispyNews, Feeds2
David Tebbutt: NewsGator, NetVibes, Wordpress, Typepad, Technorati
JP Rangaswami: Netvibes, Technorati, Wordpress
Neville Hobson: WordPress, FeedDemon, Skype, Statcounter, Mint, NetVibes
Armand David: Wordpress, Wikipedia, Del.icio.us, Skype, FeedReader
Stephen Davies: WordPress, Bloglines, Firefox, Google Analytics, BrandPulse
Josh Hallett: Flickr, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Technorati
Richard Bailey: RSS, search, podcasting, tagging, missing the paradigm shift
Andrea Weckerle: Del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, CrispyNews, Co.mments
Todd Defren: Del.icio.us, Qumana, NewsGator, Toread, Technorati This / Blogger Web Comments
Stuart Bruce: Typepad, Statcounter, Zoundry, CrispyNews, FeedDemon

The more I look the more the list goes on. Good to review what the most popular tools are amongst media types, and see some new ones to try. Thanks all.

Even John Prescott himself has got in on the act, pretending he didn't know what blogging was

The words of Iain Dale on More4's blog: "Even John Prescott himself has got in on the act, slagging me off on Radio 4's Today Programme, pretending he didn't know what blogging was."

"Guido and Dale both played a part in keeping the Prescott story on the boil. As a result, Dale argues, the Government is trying to rubbish [blogs]."

The more I read into this the more interesting it gets. I just posted about this on the LEWIS blog, about Iain's guest slot tonight on BBC News 24 doing the press briefing.

links for 2006-07-18

• BlogHUD
  A blogging system for Second Life
• Podcasts Reach 5.6M - Nielsen
  Some 6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio podcast and 4.0 percent (5.6 million) a video podcast.
• The death-knell of blogging integrity?
  Bloggers as advertising conduits is not an entirely novel idea but the launch of PayPerPost has drawn criticism, from the blogosphere, for dealing a further blow to professional journalistic and blogging integrity.

links for 2006-07-16

• Using del.icio.us in your PR campaign
  SEO / PR man Antony Mayfield points to a paper on using del.icio.us social bookmarking as part of a media relations campaign
• adveracio.us
  A community-generated news gatherer Ad industry news
• Social Media Club
  Organized for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media.

Turning all political

Browsing through the 'Bloggers Vs Prescott' chatter online, I've built up a few political blogs into my radar. Here's a list of my top 10 political blogs in the UK, for those involved in blogger relations campaigns or just general reading of course:

1. guido fawkes
2. iain dale's diary
3. an englishman's castle
4. recess monkey
5. ministry of truth
6. politaholic
7. political betting
8. burning our money
9. the waffle tree
10. fibdems

Technorati Tags: political blogs

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