Businesses Rewarding Yelpers for Only Positive Reviews
About nine months ago, I started using Yelp. At first, I was only using it to look up restaurant reviews, but quickly it has become my number one resource for salons, hotels, spas, etc. I can’t even remember the last time…
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Smirnoff Icing Phenomenon Reaches the Northeast
A few weeks ago, my friends and I were at a bar and watched in horror as a group of people repeatedly kept taking individual turns chugging bottles of Smirnoff Ice on one knee. My horror wasn’t from the fact that they…
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YouTube’s Fifth Anniversary
This month marks the fifth anniversary of YouTube, and what an entertaining five years it has been. The first time I heard about YouTube I was interning for a Broadway theater group for the summer. The company discovered footage from one of…
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How Important Is Your Domain Name?
I’m not sure if it’s just New England or if other regions of the country are attacked with furniture store advertisements as ferociously as we are. While getting ready every morning with the news in the background, I must hear the owners…
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Does This Headline Grab Your Attention?
As I scanned some industry blogs today, here are two articles that grabbed my attention:
Adobe CTO: Flash on iPhone Doesn’t Suck and Apple Knows It
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PR Officer: US 8th Most Stressful Job
I recently came across the 2010 Jobs Rated Report, which surveyed 200 different positions, and of all these professions, PR officer ranks #8 as the “Most Stressful Job of 2010.” Who beats us? Firefighters, surgeons, and taxi drivers. According to the…
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New Announcements at Facebook f8 Conference
It’s expected that today Facebook will be announcing some changes to its site at its annual f8 conference in San Francisco. While many in the industry predict that these changes will have to do with mobile phone apps and a deeper…
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Coverage Preference
With my clients’ coverage appearing usually online, it can sometimes throw me off when articles appear in print. After all, it takes more than just setting up a Google alert to monitor for it and then there’s the whole issue of warming…
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How Do You Spell NetworkWorld?
“Is NetworkWorld one word or two? “
“I don’t capitalize the first ‘W,’ just the second one, right?”
“I know Computerworld is definitely one word, but I feel like the “w” is lower case, no?”
These are conversations I used to have…
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Program Outlook to Prompt You to Add a Subject in Your Email Every Time
In the PR industry, email seems to be the most common form of communication between coworkers, agencies, clients, press, analysts, etc. It sometimes gets to the point when one chain of emails is replied to so many times that you refer to…
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