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For an excellent overview of the concepts and issues surrounding online privacy and publicity, check out danah boyd’s keynote speech from SXSWi for 2010.
Just because a large percentage of people engage in public does not mean that they don’t care about privacy. Pew found that 85% of adults want to control [...]
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Q: I want to start a blog for a particular population segment, and I’d like to get sponsors for the blog eventually. My question is this. If I start with a WordPress.com hosted blog just to get some content out there with a readership so that I can then approach sponsors, can I later convert [...]
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Lindsay Robertson, a freelance writer in New York, published an excellent list for publicists who want to connect with bloggers: “The Do’s and Don’ts of Online Publicity, For Some Reason.” It’s well worth reading and following this entire list of tips.
So often we emphasize what not to do when connecting with bloggers, so I love [...]
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Email is both the most useful tool I have for communicating and the most problematic.
It’s useful because it’s inexpensive to send and receive, integrated with many of my other communication and information tools (websites, phone texting, calendar and contacts), and able to work with multiple media, from text to images to video to links.
Best of [...]
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We received Big Big Design’s “Favorite Place on Google” sticker today, and I’m geekily excited.
The sticker is a window decal with a barcode that points to our business listing on Google and Google Maps. A person with a camera phone can scan the barcode to see our listing, including information we post there — hours, [...]
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“teamwork” by jksphotos on Flickr
When I suggest to business people that they should consider blogging, the second most common objection I hear is that they don’t have anything to blog about.
(The most common objection I hear is that they don’t have time. It’s a real concern — I feel that way sometimes too — [...]
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