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How are you Tying up Your Client into a Recession Pitch?

An interesting article in the New York Times today - Is It a Recession? Marketers Seem to Think So - highlights how that the marketing industry is ramping up spending, even if this might be a recession (and, well, we cannot say we are in a recession yet, according to statistics).According to the article:

Two Sides of the Internet

The Internet can always be amusing, or interesting or just plain frustrating. It really just depends on what side of the fence you are, on any given subjects.

Blogworld: PR Dos & Don'ts

Lead by Sue Bohle - a few friends on the panel, including Brian Solis and John Earnhardt of Cisco. Eastman Kodak, SAP, PRWeb and BlogAds were also part of the panel.

BlogWorld Expo - Blogging Ethics

Amy Gahran ran her panel at the Blog World Expo on Ethics - with a cool group of people, including friends Lynne Johnson of Fast Company and Toby Bloomberg.

PR will lose Social Media to Advertising Due to Sex

Okay, not necessarily sex - but advertising does know how to make mundane things sexy.

Reputation - Both Corporate & Personal

It has been an interesting week - a few blog posts out there attacking others, a nice article on online reputation that was syndicated from the Seattle Times, and a phone call via Facebook asking me about ... defending your reputation because of blogs.

The Myopia of the Valley

Robert Scoble just rips apart the NewTeeVee conference as missing the boat. And, while he might have a few points on his list of 40 ... he forgets the audience, those that are going to come to the conference. Is the audience for this conference the more advanced veterans, or is it for the new audiences (and, well, corporations) that are trying to figure out (still) what to do in all this new media, including the NewTeeVee world?

Corporate Image in the Age of Social Technologies

Every company is a media company now - so sayeth Richard Edelman during his presentation.

Social Networking & UGC in Today's Media Environment

From the Playboy perspective with Christie Hefner - that true brands represent attitude and a point of view, that can be moved from one product to another. It can play in different spaces.

The Community of TechCrunch

I'm sitting here today at the TechCrunch40, listening to various companies pitch their wares to the people and press that are attending (I'm here as invited press, so will give overview of the companies and what I thought).