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Archive for May 2008

May 14th, 2008

Citizen Journalism

 
Since I’ve been writing for b5Media, I’ve found myself thinking more about citizen journalism vs traditional journalism. I think that everyone has to face the fact that we’re entering a new world, one that is more focused on peer-to-peer communications than we are someone providing news to us. Just look at how many more blogs […]

By Colleen -- 4 comments

May 12th, 2008

Drama, Drama, Drama

Oh the drama and controversy swirling about the interwebs right now! (I refuse to use the term “blogosphere” (even though I just did) and also, I hate Weblog. STOPPIT. It’s just a blog now, ok? We’ve got that cleared up? Can we move on? Ok. Great.)
First, Chris Andersen published his vitriolic post about being pitched […]

By Colleen -- 1 comment

May 10th, 2008

Managing the beast that is RSS

Now that I’ve got a several writing gigs, I need to read, a lot. A lot of news, a lot of opinions, a lot of sites.
Tris Hussey pointed me in the direction of AideRSS, which is a very slick little tool to help calm the savage RSS beast.
AideRSS uses a slick technology which […]

By Colleen -- 2 comments

May 9th, 2008

Interviewed at BloggerTalks

Thord D. Hedengren recently interviewed me for both the Blog Herald and Blogger Talks.
The Blogger Talks interview is my take on PR and gettin’ famous.
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By Colleen -- 0 comments

May 9th, 2008

Word of Mouse

No, we’re not talking about Disney here.
I’m talking about sing the web to spread your message virally. David M. Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR has offered BuzzNetworker readers a free e-book download.
I’ll be speaking David in the coming weeks and I’m on his list for review copies of […]

By Colleen -- 0 comments

May 8th, 2008

Facebook has lost its lustre

I thought it was just me.
I thought that I was the only one not visiting facebook, not caring about event invites, updates or status updates. I find myself not checking into facebook for days on end. I don’t even look at the email notices that I get. Hell, I barely even check that account anymore. […]

By Colleen -- 2 comments

May 6th, 2008

The Great Blog OFF!

In 2008, the summer solstice will occur at 23:59 hours UT on 20th June (Friday). It is the first time since 1975 that it hasn’t occurred on 21st June. The summer solstice is, as you may know, the longest day of the western hemisphere.
To celebrate, BuzzNetworker,  the Business Channel and b5media are having The Great […]

By Colleen -- 2 comments

May 6th, 2008

Blog Herald Interview

The Blog Herald was founded by Duncan Riley in March 2003 as a premium source of blog and blogging related news for bloggers. It was the first blog dedicated exclusively to the news of the blogosphere and remains the longest (and largest) standing resource of its kind.
I was interviewed this week by Thord D […]

By Colleen -- 4 comments

May 5th, 2008

How to pitch a blogger PROPERLY

On Saturday, I posted a “How NOT to pitch” guide for PR people pitching bloggers. Today, I’ll tell you how we WANT to be pitched.

I’ve just recently sent queries out onto two networks PR people use to get leads: PR Newswire’s ProfNet and Help a Reporter Out (HARO) on a couple of different topics. Some […]

By Colleen -- 2 comments

May 3rd, 2008

How NOT to conduct blogger relations

Online news outlets, like this one, and pretty much any other influential blog out there, are hot commodities for many PR and marketing people. If you’ve got any kind of consistent readership, companies like Matchstick Marketing will want to get you to try out and review products.
Rebecca Bollwitt, hyper-local Vancouver area blogger, Miss604, has been […]

By Colleen -- 3 comments

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