Posted on January 13, 2006 1:44 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Wikis
Spirit of America defines its mission as extending “the goodwill of the American people to assist those advancing freedom, democracy and peace abroad.” Advancing freedom and democracy includes free speech based on the introduction of a blog and wiki by the organization designed to aid individuals in repressive countries to blog anonymously. In countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and others,…
Posted on January 13, 2006 12:56 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
Neville Hobson, popular PR blogger and my co-host on For Immediate Release, has pretty much given up on print. Neville prefers to read everything online, including lengthy articles in business publications like BusinessWeek. He’s a poster child for the “print is dead” meme, even though statistics bear out that most people still like to read lengthy material in print. (How many of you print out…
Posted on January 12, 2006 5:33 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Thanks to Constantin Basturea, we have links to a whole new batch of PR blogs. Constantin notes that this list brings the total number on his PR Blogs List to 330. It made me happy to see I was already reading several of these, and had subscribed to the feeds from four of them. The real delight was discovering a…
Posted on January 12, 2006 5:05 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Want a blog? Not some cheesy Blogger blog with a half-dozen readers, but one that’s already on the A list, a top-100 blog on virtually every list, generating around $2,000 per month in revenue? If you have $40,000, such a blog can be yours.
That’s because blog entrepreneur and “Blog Marketing” author Jeremy Wright is selling it.
This is one of the defining blogs in the…
Posted on January 12, 2006 4:12 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
I don’t have a problem, in principle, with character blogs and fake blogs. I haven’t seen many that work, but that doesn’t mean somebody won’t come up with one that succeeds on all levels. I do, however, have a big problem with deceit, which is exactly what Coca-Cola has engaged in with a fake blog unmasked only after the Beyond Madison Avenue blog ran a…
Posted on January 12, 2006 10:34 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
The headline on this post is the first of two lines from a comment posted last night to something I wrote months ago. The full comment reads, “I also oneself something would want to find out on this theme. Very attentively I will read every post.” The link in the post was to a product site not worth mentioning. Clearly, it was…
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