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BluePulse on How to Compete with Facebook & MySpace

BluePulse released a bunch of new features for its social network. But why is this social network gaining millions of users when Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc are out there already and are very entrenched? Because they focused on a smaller niche. Their social network is ONLY for mobile phones. I love this company and its service.

Could Twitter Become Compulsive?

Like a great many people, I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with Twitter during the past few weeks. Although I signed up in December, it’s only in the past two weeks that I’ve got active with it. During this past week, though, it seems that everyone and his granny has jumped on board. Twitter is… what? A chat tool? A social network? A text messaging service? A place to dump your daily triviality?

PR Tools and Bag of Tricks

Okay, a lot of times I get people asking me what are the super-secret tools in my blogging/PR bag of tricks.

Relationships as a PR Goal

Over the past many years, in speeches, workshops, books and articles, I have steadfastly preached two axioms of public relations:

CoComment Gets Half the Job Down

Okay, I track blogs. I always have. It's not a big deal, it's part of PR and what I hope to convey to others in the industry and the agency life - that it's not just enough to be tracking the media, but you need to get your Pubsub / Technorati / Blogpulse on (yes, all three).

BlogPulse Live Launches

BlogPulse Live is a graphical real-time view of the most popular topics bloggers are posting about across several broad categories -

A Day of Acquisitions

Well, today is a busy one in both PR and PR measurement.

Nielsen Teams Up With Intelliseek

The blogosphere just got a lot of credit in the media business. The company best known for measurement of television ratings, Nielsen has paired up with consumer-generated-media analytics firm Intelliseek to form Nielsen BuzzMetrics.

It's Not About SEO - It's About PR

Tom Foremski has an interesting post today - Foremski has always had good ideas, as one of the key people in the Financial Times office - but he wonders why PR is growing, while the media universe keeps shrinking.

Finding a Path to Blog PR Bliss

Like Scoble, lately I have been getting a lot of please "link to me" emails.