Getting Personal
How do you conduct your client meetings? What if your client is located across town? What if your client is located across the country—or even across the globe? I’m a firm believer that, if possible, meetings should be done face to face (especially the important ones). But today’s technology makes it so easy to conference [...]
It’s All a Blur
Today, life is one big blur. At home, my office doubles as art gallery, library and dog playroom. In the kitchen, my palette runs more and more toward fusion (anyone else tried chicken with horseradish and curry?). On vacation in coastal Rhode Island this summer, it wasn’t Hurricane Earl we were worried about but Hurricane [...]
What Happened to Privacy?
There’s no bigger question in the world of the social Web than what’s going on with privacy. Is it over? Can it be saved? Is it worth fighting for? Facebook made headlines around the world a few months ago when it changed (weakened) its privacy protections and founder Mark Zuckerberg said the age of privacy [...]
Always On
It’s hard to find a bigger believer than me in the advances of the digital revolution and the power of the social Web. I was conducting online market research in the ’90s, and one of my early clients was America Online. More recently, Euro RSCG Worldwide PR has helped clients use Twitter to fundraise for [...]
Social Media Emerges as Community Glue
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. The inaugural One Young World summit that concluded on Wednesday in London wasn’t just a gathering of hundreds of tomorrow’s world leaders. Don’t get me wrong: The energy of the more than 600 delegates from 100-plus countries, the passion of their debates and the progress that their resolutions made toward [...]
Bash, Bash and More Bash
I’ve been watching the trend of mobmedia for some time now—it’s one of my top 10 trends for 2010—but it really hit home for me last week. I got a vicious, hateful (hate being the operative word) phone call, possibly from someone I know. I’ve done a number of TV appearances in the past month, and it [...]
Social Media, Defined
In the PR business, our thoughts have turned to social marketing, social networks, the social Web and social media. That new line of thinking has happened so fast that we might not even know what the terms actually mean. Where does one end and another begin? As Trebor Scholz, assistant professor in the Department of [...]
