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July 2009 - Posts
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:59 AM
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For the past 30 plus years, I’ve run the same way. Long legs = long stride, over different continents, different climates, different decades. Sometimes I’ve been faster, and sometimes I’ve been slower, but the basic stride has always been the same. About Read More...
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Monday, July 27, 2009 7:20 AM
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From Brad Stone at NYT, a look at some of the fallout from the Amazon/Orwell book removal event from last week. Bezos apologized, said never again (as I’d noted earlier, he should’ve done so a few days before he did.) But as it should, the incident is Read More...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:05 PM
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Some years back, I wrote about the dangers of focusing so much on the current example of an idea that we lost sight on the intrinsic value of the idea itself. Re: Second LIfe, I wrote: For example. Second Life – not that interesting. Not very many people, Read More...
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Friday, July 24, 2009 9:32 PM
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Via William Safire, a great remembrance of his time as a PR guy. I’d not hear this story before, and it’s pretty sweet – up close and personal with then Vice President Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev. Safire tells the story with much gusto – how he was a Read More...
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Monday, July 20, 2009 8:56 AM
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Two recent marketing views of how Twitter is doing with PR. First up over in PR Week Aarti Shah writes about twittergate and the PR response (subscription required). Her key point (supported by ahem neutral parties Robert Scoble and Steve Rubel) is that Read More...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009 7:14 AM
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Lots of pixels being killed on the deletion of some Kindle books by Amazon . They screwed up, big time, and are now in the midst of a communications crisis. Importantly, it’s one that strikes at the heart of their brand – built on trust and customer service. Read More...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:44 PM
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Very interesting post from eyecube looking at why brand's shouldn't be on twitter. It’s worth a read, and makes some good points and suggestions on what to consider before taking the plunge. Spot on, mostly. But the title of my post is “things that don’t Read More...
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 10:31 AM
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Boy, sometimes it takes a long time to say “I told you so.” But here in the NYT, a story that say s Google has dropped that barn burner of a feature nobody needed, the ability for a news source to leap through hoops and comment. So, here’s the official Read More...
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