Archive for the ‘Blogs’ Category

How A Crush on Pete Cashmore Changed My Life

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

by Mallory Dash OK, maybe "changed my life" is too strong. But read on... The year was 2007, and I had just begun my young career in tech PR, with nary an interest in Teh Webs, and I didn't even know what a Twhirl or an Om or a Soshal ...

Twitter Invades Poker

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

By: Matt Clark I’m out in Vegas at the Dream Team Poker event.  There are about 444 people in the tournament with a healthy number of pros.  What’s really surprising is the number of people twittering the event --- while they are playing.  I tried this a few weeks ago while playing a cash game in ...

How to Respond to a Bad Blog Post

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

By Matt Clark We talk a lot about the blogosphere here at DigitalBlab. We admittedly have a man crush on it. But what happens when a blog turns on you? Before reading this article you might want to go over past blog posts here, here and here. One of our best ...

Fantasy Football 2.0… for Charity

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

by: Mallory Dash It's the most wonderful time of the year- according to John Madden, Joe Buck, my dad, your mom, and myself. It's fantasy time- and no, not those kind of fantasies- the closing of a long fantasy baseball summer, and the beginning of a brand new football season. I have ...

Obama VP Text Hit Late But Still Hit Hard

Monday, August 25th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Two weeks ago I praised Obama’s social media and digital marketing savvy after finding out about his plans to announce his VP pick via text messaging and e-mails. Obama promised that his supporters would be the first to know his pick if they opted into his marketing ...

The PR War: Part 3 (The Manifesto)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

By: Matt Clark and Mallory Dash That’s right: we're double-teaming this one.  (Matt: Oh, yeeah) (Mal: You're fine... no double-teaming here...at all) We would like to welcome you all to PR World War 3.  I (Matt) call it WW3 because this seems to be the third major attack on the PR industry ...

Obama’s Social Media Push Sets a President

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Its official. Barack Obama is the champion of political social marketing. His camp has conquered the social graph and the digital frontier. Use any Web 2.0 word you want, and Obama’s the best at it. Yesterday, his camp said that Barack Obama will announce his running make via ...

In NYC? Come mingle with the Mash crew

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

It's-a me, Mallory. Just a quick update: Mashable's SummerMash NYC is tonight, the big finale to their US Summer Tour 2008. You can get your tickets for the next few hours here... You can expect a pretty good time- I went to a Mashable event earlier in the spring, and met ...

Branding your cash cow: It only hurts for a second

Monday, June 16th, 2008

by Mallory Dash Chris Brogan has an excellent post on his blog today listing his top 100 personal branding tactics. While it won't be necessary to go through each and every one here (although I recommend you do on your own time) there are a few that are particularly pertinent to ...

LAPD Blogs - What’s Next?

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

by Matt Clark The LAPD has a blog...Government 2.0 anyone? This is a great step for the blogosphere. Corporate America has accepted the medium and it's time for the government to do the same. There are 20 million people living in LA county and the area has almost as many news ...