After my post last week, No Place for PR in the Blogosphere?, and the excellent conversation that followed, I wanted to talk about the role of PR in social media.

It seems that Giovanni Rodriguez of the GoodSeed and Eastwickers was thinking along the same wavelength and has published a two part read more...

Ah, so much fun and so little time.

After a week of deep conversation and debate over the role of PR in the blogosphere, I needed to blow off my creative steam.

First, there are the contests that require you be creative:

• The original, write a caption for a New Yorker cartoon and win the signed cartoon. You can enter, vote read more...

Blogger Noel Guinane, while doing a little PR for his blog, invited me by e-mail to comment on his new post, Dishonestly honest or honestly dishonest?

I think I’ll blog about it instead.

He uses the recent Edelman blogger initiative and the read more...

I’ve been selected at Business Planet, thanks Alex, whoever you are.

Business Planet is a lot like Digg, but is aimed at the business community and doesn’t have near the number of users as Digg.

Right now my post on Corporate Social Responsibility is still in the front page, so go vote for it, then check out some of the other stuff there.

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Were you feeling a little itchy this morning?

It seems that bedbugs, those bugs of nursery rhyme lore, have made a comeback in the United States, and hotels have a growing problem as they struggle to fight off these critters.

One hotel already faces a big problem.

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