Last Thursday I participated in an excellent daylong Podcasting Bootcamp event, offered by the Da Vinci Institute. I’ve been pretty busy since then, so I’m just now getting around to posting that audio. (Show notes…)
Today’s San Jose Mercury News includes an article by Knight-Ridder reporter Ellen Lee entitled “Many Internet users lagging on lingo.” It’s about the recent “Tech Term Awareness” survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. I found myself in stitches over a particularly telling editorial oversight in this piece…
I’ve been thoroughly amused and intrigued by several aspects of the recent discussion about whether the press release format is a major waste that should be dispatched quickly and mercifully. It’s laid bare several common fallacies. One such fallacy is the idea that debate dies. It’s true that within the context of a defined organization (such as a club or company), a deliberative body (such as a legislature or peer review panel), or a particular forum (such as an e-mail discussion group), debate can have a defined beginning and end. However, in the public conversation – and especially on the internet, within a loosely defined community, or between communities – this concept has no meaning. For good reason…
Via comments to my earlier postings and private e-mail, I keep hearing (almost exclusively from PR folks) defenses for the continued existence of press releases. To all supporters of that particular media vehicle, here’s my challenge: What if the press release were outlawed today? What if you’d get burned at the stake if you wrote or transmitted another press release? What other types of documents, channels, etc. would you use to get your communication job done? I dare you to think creatively about this issue. Here’s a bit more detail…
Thursday morning, bright and early, I’ll be the first presenter at the Da Vinci Institute’s daylong Podcast Bootcamp event at DeVry Univ. (Westminster, CO). I’m very excited about this event, because the other presenters are highly accomplished podcasters who can definitely expand my skill set.
Here’s a quick overview of what I plan to discuss [...]
As I expected, a lot of people (mainly from the world of PR and from press release distribution services) are vehemently disagreeing with my earlier missive: Let’s Put Press Releases Out of Their Misery. I’m slammed right at the moment so can’t reply to all of these people in detail. (Sorry.) However, I did summarize my counterarguments to their claims in a comment to a recent posting from the weblog of Newsmotto, a press release distribution service…
I’m excited to announce my first independently produced workshop: Very Basic Blogging. This 3-hour event will be held Wed. Aug. 24, 2005 at the Outlook Hotel in my lovely hometown of Boulder, CO. SEE EVENT UPDATE AND ONLINE REGISTRATION
This morning I participated in an early-morning panel on blogging hosted at the Denver Press Club by Business Wire. The audience was about 40 or so PR professionals from the Denver area. Listen to most of the panel. Here’s who was on it, and what we discussed…
I’ve never liked press releases – even though, in my journalistic work, I’ve often relied on them for story leads and background. But I’ve never actually liked them. They’ve always felt slimy and fake to me. I’ve always thought there had to be a better way to convey that information, to make those kinds of connections. I’m so glad that neither journalists nor PR folks need rely on (or resort to) press releases any longer. Really, we don’t. I mean it. Here’s why we should let the press release die a merciful, quick death – by force if necessary…
A little more than a month ago, I wrote about how it seems to me that we’ve recently left the “Information Age” and have entered the “Connection Age.” I’m only just realizing what a big deal this truly is…
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