Categories
-
Authors
About
Archives
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- March 2013
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
Blogroll
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Design Thinking
As a social media manager, my days are often filled with meetings and phone calls in between account work. On Friday, I had one meeting in particular that I was really looking forward to. One of our clients, Tim Ogilvie, … Continue reading
Posted in publishing, Social Media
Tagged career, design thinking, designing for growth, mind mapping, Social Media, tim ogilvie
Leave a comment
Caption Contest
Public relations offices are full of random memorabilia. Check out this photo of one of our senior staff members reading the paper. Suggest a caption to win some cool books, and to be featured on our blog.
Posted in Media, publishing
Tagged caption contest, nixon resigns, richard nixon, the new york times
Leave a comment
Social Vending
You have your vending machines. And then you have your social vending machines. Pepsi is getting consumers involved in a whole new way with a prototype launch of its social vending machine.  In addition to quenching your own thirst, you … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged communication, community, consumer, innovation, news, pepsi, Social Media, social vending, technology
Leave a comment
App Happy: Note Everything
Looking for that perfect app to keep all your thoughts organized without having a million pieces of paper scattered all over your desk? Note Everything, a free app in the Android Market, allows you to electronically organize your thoughts (in … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Social Media
Tagged Android, Android Market, app, app review, Droid, Note Everything, notes, productivity
Leave a comment
Duped!
How closely do people pay attention to the press release? On NPR’s music blog The Record, Frannie Kelley tells a great story of how a ridiculously fake bio for an actual band went insanely viral. The headline of the release … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Social Media
Tagged bios, chuck klosterman, delicate steve, frannie kelley, journalism, Media, music, npr, pitching, pr, press releases, public relations
Leave a comment
In Print: The Beatles
This has been a good week for Beatles fans, as three separate Beatles-related books have made the news. 1. Via GalleyCat, I read that Abrams will be publishing Living in the Material World: George Harrison – an illustrated book that … Continue reading
Posted in publishing
Tagged abrams, galleycat, george harrison, gothamist, john lennon, martin scorsese, publishing, the beatles, turner publishing, usa today, yoko ono
Leave a comment
Fan Page Duel
Do you remember Xanga? If any of you were like me and used it as an online journal, you probably remember spending hours at a time tinkering with the HTML to make your page look unique. With Facebook, things get … Continue reading
Posted in publishing, Social Media
Tagged facebook, html, james patterson, new york times, new york times best sellers list, publishing, Social Media, xanga
Leave a comment
Last Words
Thanks to the beloved GalleyCat Twitter feed, I happened upon a link to Flavorwire — tweeted by BookBench — that had a list of 20 famous last lines in literature. I sifted through the list quickly, amused by the lines … Continue reading
Posted in Media, publishing
Tagged Flavorwire, galleycat, literature, publishing, reading, twitter
Leave a comment
Social Media April Fools
If you’ve been on Google today, or have logged into LinkedIn, you may have picked up on two clever April Fool’s Day jokes.
Posted in Media, Social Media
Tagged april fool's day, geek humor, google, google media, linkedin, pranks
Leave a comment
