"Make new friends and keep the old..." It was a song I learned as a child, but it rings true and is especially true in this interconnected Web we call social networking. If you don't know him yet, meet Rob La Gesse, a blogger who I had the pleasure of meeting when he complained about a client. He is my personal reminder about how social media networking should function. He also came out today read more...
The Friendly Ghost is Brendan Cooper – A tech copywriter in London
Let's face it, the Friendly Ghost, who came out with his own PowerPR index (inspired by ToddAnd) had a host of things working against him:
- The blogosphere is generally suspicious of anonymity
- The PR community had been recently burned by an anonymous troll (Strumpette)
- The new index was seen as a competitor for the Power 150, and most of us like and know the person who created it
Stop Talking and Start Doing: Social Media Experimenters Crow About Successes
I've been doing a little housecleaning from last week and saw that Mike Manuel of Voce Communications called a few of us out to share the social media projects for which we are most proud. I think it is a worthwhile meme since the time for "talking" about what works in social media has long past. In fact, a few weeks ago I made a call for people to share their success read more...
PR Measurement: Much More Than Just Popularity or Relative Influence
Flemming Madison, of Onalytica, has come out with a list of PR blogs by their "relative influence" around the terms "PR" and "Blog." Flemming posits that those that make the list are influential based on these words and the relative weight of those that link to them or propagate their ideas. It is an interesting concept and as Flemming points out in his first post on the subject citation analysis has long been used by the academic field read more...
PowerWomen and the Power 150: Women Make up Only 13 percent of Top Bloggers
Before the ToddAnd's Power 150, the marketing and public relations set used now defunct PubSub to gauge their rank. Last year, I was perusing that list and noted that there were very few women in the top ranks of public relations and marketing bloggers. At that time I found that only 12 percent of the top 50 PR bloggers were women. Recently, I wondered if that were still the case. It turns out that only 13 percent of the Power 150 Top Marketing Blogs are women. I only included blogs that read more...