Posted on October 15, 2004 2:24 pm by Shel Holtz | General
All the hysteria can now end. PRSA has added a session on blogging to its conference. I just received the following by e-mail from the International Association of Online Communicators:
Members of the IAOC will be presenting a professional development workshop entitled “Straight Talk about Blogging and PR” at the Public Relations Society of America’s annual conference on Tuesday, October, 26, from 8:30 - 9:45…
Posted on October 15, 2004 1:01 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Just posted to the Investor’s Business Daily site is Frank Barnako’s column (which I also get by e-mail) that hammers the impact of blogs. Barnako quotes Max Kalehoff, a spokesman for Web measurement company HitWise: “The audience reach of even the largest of the political blogs is tiny compared to other major political news sources,” he said, noting that traffic to WashingtonPost.com was…
Posted on October 14, 2004 9:00 am by Shel Holtz | General
How desparate are you to get people to read your blog? There must be a lot of desparate bloggers out there if a new service called Blogexplosion thinks it can sustain a business. Claiming it can get “hundreds or even thousands of other bloggers coming to read your blog every month,” the service hooks you up with other bloggers who will agree to…
Posted on October 12, 2004 7:40 am by Shel Holtz | General
Mike Manuel is irked by the apparent pick-and-choose moderation of comments submitted to Richard Edelman’s blog. The Media Guerrilla blogger offered up a comment in response to the Edelman Public Relations honcho’s first entry. Not only did he get no reply, the comment never even showed up.
Writes Manuel, “I think it’s pretty lame of Edelman and/or the folks behind the curtain to scratch my comment…
Posted on October 12, 2004 7:28 am by Shel Holtz | General
The comment count is up to 13 on David Kistle’s blog. Most (including one from me and one from fellow blogger Neville Hobson) are congratulatory. Debbie Vondran notes, “If a member doesn’t feel connected, it’s not for lack of trying on IABC’s part.” Former Chicago chapter president Sharon Bond talks about diminishing membership. It could be that this blog will open a greater dialogue between…
Posted on October 10, 2004 7:57 am by Shel Holtz | General
I didn’t want to speak out of school when IABC staffer Chris Grossgart told me IABC was working with 2004-05 chairman David Kistle to start a blog. Neville Hobson just notified me by e-mail that the blog is online, even though it hasn’t been launched officially yet. (Neville has a post about the blog at his own blog, along with a screen…
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