So, Hugh put up a little announcement of our San Antonio blogger lunch kicking off the 100 Geek Dinners and I just got a call from Samantha from Stormhoek, (Yes Sam, I got the message) saying a parcel was “on the way.”

Hugh points to a great post by the blog Good Grape that puts this campaign into a bottom-line perspective that any corporate executive could understand. Hugh used the same kind of blogging campaign to introduce the wine in read more...

Except it will be lunch.

We will talk about social media in San Antonio, and there will be a wine tasting of Stormhoek wine, a new product coming to the U.S. market this year.

Don’t worry, it will just be a tasting, you will be able to return to work afterward. Unless, of course, you don’t want to go back to work ;-)

The meetup idea was born when Alan L. Weinkrantz, www.alanweinkrantz.typepad.com
who is also a read more...

press releases
Originally uploaded by tmonkey. According to John Elsasser, editor of PRSA’s flagship publications the Strategist and Tactics, the publications have started to offer some of its content online on the PRSA homepage.

One of the newest is by June Casagrande, a journalist and former Business Wire editor.

While the read more...

"You look a bit pale today"
Originally uploaded by Reciprocity. So, in a comment in my blog post last week about Shel’s new blogger relations program, Phil Gomes says he isn’t fond of term, in fact he is pretty clear about his sentiment:

“I've been trying to kill the term ‘blogger relations’ here.”

He goes on to admit while it is it a “nit,” he takes read more...

Spurred on by Neville and all of his posts about blog editors, I decided to start trying a few. So, for my first try, I am using Performancing, a Firefox plugin to write this post.

You tell me how it looks.

All of this time I have used the interface for Blogger and a greasemonkey user script for Firefox that I downloaded to fill in the Technorati tags automatically to Blogger posts.

By the way, without read more...