Archive for April, 2008

Conversational Thoughts on SEO as a PR Tool

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

After 10 plus years in the SEM business, it’s a bit of an understatement to say that the nature of SEO is constantly changing. Those changes involve both the search engines refining the way they sort and display search results as well as consumer search behaviors. A simple example would be a year […]

Joseph Jaffe Interview

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Photo Credit, CC Chapman
At last year’s DMA07 Annual Conference, I had the good fortune of giving half of a workshop on social media with renowned author, speaker and new media marketing guru, Joseph Jaffe. Too many marketing pundits don’t “walk the talk” and I found this not to be the case with Jaffe. A […]

Media Relations Summit Wrap Up

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

M&O PR’s Kevin Sawyer and I are now finally back in the office after two jam packed days of Media Relations Summit. Public and media relations professionals, academics and business communicators from across the country gathered at what is known as the largest event for media relations in the world. Kevin blogged the […]

Charlie Rose Keynote with Howard Rubenstein

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

In the opening keynote at Media Relations Summit, the legendary TV journalist and interviewer, Charlie Rose, had the tables turned and became interviewee with the famous PR guru, Howard Rubenstein.
Rubenstein: Why are your interviews so revealing? How do you get your guests to reveal so much?
Rose: The thing about a story… Describes the recent news […]

Mike Moran Keynote: What Corporations Need From PR in a Web 2.0 World

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

The day two Media Relations Summit lunch keynote is given by Mike Moran, a distinguished engineer from IBM, who starts out with a question: Did Robert Scoble make you feel technologically stupid this morning and now you’re thinking you have to listen to an engineer? Mike admits he can’t be Robert and neither […]

Getting the Most Out of Your Corporate Blog

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

This session at Media Relations Summit includes Tac Anderson from HP, Jennifer Cisney from Kodak and Robert Scoble from Fast Company.
First up is Tac Anderson from HP, who shares a specific example of a tactical execution of a blog. HP has had bloggers for 3 years. 60+ blogs.
Example of using a business blog as a […]

The Future of PR: Media Relations Summit 2008

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Our client visit to San Francisco last week fell right next to the Media Relations Summit conference happening this week at the Westin St. Francis on Union Square. The near crossover meant a weekend in one of my favorite cities.

As one of the largest conferences dedicated to media relations, this event attracts an array of […]

BIGLIST Marketing Blogs Update 040408

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I discovered several of the blogs on this week’s update via all the new Twitter followers we’ve been getting at the leeodden and the BIGLIST accounts.  Welcome to all of our new friends!  70% of the blogs queued up for review this week didn’t make it to the list, but what we do have […]

Is Your SEO Firm Outsourcing Your Work?

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

It’s pretty common in the interactive, advertising and PR agency world to outsource components of an engagement where the lead agency does not have specific domain expertise. Those scenarios are often structured by the client who is already working with other vendors or the lead agency bringing in outside expertise.  For the most part, it’s […]