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- Building walls between PR, journalists: A worst practice
- One of the elements I love about social media is the tearing down of walls. I have an incredible network of contacts on multiple social networks to whom I can reach out in mere minutes. Just this morning, even, I put out an inquiry for this very blog post on...
- Tags: Journalist, Newsletter, Reporter, Service, Wall, Help A Reporter Out, ProfNet, Source, Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Construction, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- How a student fooled the world's media
- On the 28th March, Shane Fitzgerald who studies at the University of Dublin, began an experiment which could put journalism into disrepute, by faking a quote on Wikipedia and measuring the spread across the world's media outlets. Maurice Jarre, a famous French composer, died in late March...
- Tags: Journalist, Media, Fake, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- 9 Tips to Pitching the Press
- I just returned from keynoting a PR Newswire seminar in Tel Aviv on how to run marketing campaigns on a shoestring budget. Kudos are well deserved to Rakefet, Sharon and the rest of the PR Newswire team as well as Avi Yair at NCSM Marketing and Yigal Cohen at Linx...
- Tags: Journalist, PR Newswire, Kudos, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Google's Schmidt carefully scripted at newspaper powwow
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared his love for newspapers today in front of an audience at the Newspaper Association of America's annual convention in San Diego. You know: freedom of speech, in-depth reporting, policing government and the elite and so on. For just about an hour, Schmidt...
- Tags: Google Inc., Journalist, Eric Schmidt, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Digital storm of protests for New York Times defense of AIG bonuses
- Andrew Ross Sorkin, a reporter at the New York Times, took a contrarian position on Tuesday, writing an opinion piece that defended the multi-million dollar bonus payments by AIG. . . . If government officials were to break the contracts, they would be “breaking a...
- Tags: China, Journalist, Journalism, Yahoo! Inc., American International Group Inc., New York Times Co., Taxes, Free Trade, Wiki, Personal Finance, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Planning, Finance, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- NCTE recognizes the evolution of writing
- Earlier this year I helped my oldest son edit a paper he had written for his English class. Although it was fairly well-developed, I suggested that he break up his paragraphs into more manageable chunks. Don't be afraid to address an idea and then move onto the next...
- Tags: Journalist, Student, NCTE, Web 2.0, Blogging, Wiki, Internet, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Teaching old-school journalism in a new world
- I have been the first to bid good riddance to dead tree news sources. Newspapers folding? Good! This is 2009, after all. If you can't find it on the Web, is it really even worth reading? Obviously, I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek here, but the...
- Tags: Newspaper, Press, Journalist, Baltimore, Thomas Jefferson, Performance Management, Blogging, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Cockroach media will survive this recession
- The problems that print, TV, and other media companies are having in their transition to an online business is that the revenues from the new world don't match those from the old. And that means cuts. Here is an extract from a staff memo by Robert Thomson,...
- Tags: Revenue, Journalist, Recession, Media, Paul, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-02-07
- Students: how to pitch a killer product
- As I am a British citizen, I like to keep abreast of issues at home; land of Queen Elizabeth II, home of crap dental treatment, Yorkshire puddings, witty sarcastic humour, Monty Python and fish 'n chips. By all that, I mean I read the ZDNet.co.uk pages from time to time....
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Journalist, Student, Public Relations, Entrepreneurship, EAI, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-01-24
- Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future
- With the rise of online media, from YouTube to Facebook, WordPress to the New York Times, journalism has expanded over the course of the last decade into a new era. "Journalism" may not be guaranteed work all of the time, but it is most certainly in my eyes one of...
- Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Microblogging, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- HP ProCurve Networking Sets the Pace at the 2008 London Marathon
- Flora London Marathon needed a reliable and secure Wide Area Network WAN to provide journalists with 'Live' information about the competitors as they progressed around the 42 kilometre course. They assessed the requirements of the world's journalists and broadcast media. The company deployed HP ProCurve and its technology partner, the...
- Tags: Journalist, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, WANs, Utility Computing, Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .
- I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Media Leader Increases Speed, Quality of Published Stories With Focused IT Investment
- Swiss media giant Ringier wanted to transform its work environment to heighten journalist productivity to gain an edge in a competitive industry. The 7,000-employee company envisioned an "Integrated newsroom" in which its journalists around the world had technology tools to support collaboration and advanced communications. With help from partners Peaches...
- Tags: Journalist, Information Technology, Media, IT Investment, Leader, Microsoft Corp., Ringier, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Office Suites
- Case studies 2008-08-25
- Tech 'tips' for Beijing visitors
- It looks like foreign tourists are avoiding Beijing in droves. China originally expected 1.5 million visitors. Now that’s down to 450,000. Still, that’s nearly 450,000 journalists coming to town. Everyone’s a reporter now, thanks to tiny electronics and the Web. Even tourists should regard themselves as such....
- Tags: China, Journalist, Beijing, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Something New by P.G. Wodehouse 1.0 (Mobile)
- A young man and a young lady, both journalists, go to work undercover at Blandings Castle and endeavor to retrieve a valuable Egyption scarab.
- Tags: Journalist, Mobile, Lady, AppEngines, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- Martha Stewart's parlor seeks open source writer-flies
- Building an open source bridge between the great writers and the wannabes, like me. What a clever idea. But that company name is faintly familiar, Martha Stewart! by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Journalist, Martha Stewart, Intellectual Property, Open Source, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Scribes, professionals and the decline of mass media
- Clay Shirky, in his Here Comes Everybody, devotes a chapter, "Everyone is a media outlet", to a comparison of the decline of scribal production to the decline of "professional" journalism. He sets up this analogy on faulty legs that leave the argument that "what was once a chasm is now...
- Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Stock, Media, Photograph, Image, Music, Investment, Document Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Photos: Microsoft previews 2008 Xbox games
- Microsoft's Spring Showcase shows off some of its forthcoming 2008 title releases to journalists in San Francisco.Microsoft took over Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco for the Showcase event. The company set up stations around the studio to show off games like Too Human, Ninja Gaiden, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and...
- Tags: Journalist, San Francisco, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Xbox, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-13
- Check Point Case Study: ANSA
- The leading news agency in Italy, ANSA provides complete coverage of Italian and foreign events. ANSA journalists working under stressful conditions and extreme deadline pressure must be able to file their stories in a timely manner from anywhere that news is breaking. They must guarantee that remote access is as...
- Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Journalist, Network, VPNs, Networking, Remote Access, Network Security, Telecommunications, Security
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- The age of the open kimono
- The idea of the open kimono has become a financial cliche the last few years. (KyotoKimono makes a fine line of kimonos to fit occidentals on purpose.) To open the kimono means you're being transparent, that you're telling us the straight story, that these numbers can be...
- Tags: Journalist, Blogging, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
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