Archive for the ‘PR’ Category

Tweet a Journalist (…is that wrong?)

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

By: Matt Clark I remember Peter Shankman talking about MSNing, IMing, Facebooking and Tweeting journalists.  This was right around the pitch-via-Facebook debate and I didn't want to push the envelope with journalists.  But now I understand the value of using social media to instantly reach journalists.  My co-worker Jess talks to ...

The Value of Twitter to Journalists

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

By Matt Clark I just had an interesting conversation with Dr. Pauly from Tao of Poker.  We were all hanging out in the Caesars sports book after the AMAZING VILLANOVA WIN (I think I chain smoked 10 cigs in the last 5 minutes).  Pauly was twittering during the entire Dream Team ...

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 ...

Baby Boom Boom Resources

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Here is some more information to help with your Baby Boomers push.  I'm not going to pretend I know what I'm talking about here.  I can guess the best strategies and place to reach out too, but I'm not a baby boomer, and I'm way to lazy to call my ...

Google to Scan the World and Save it Online

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Google has taken another step towards world domination (we have mentioned this notion before). Yesterday Google announced they will be scanning newspaper archives and making them searchable on the internet. The project will start with a small number of North American newspapers, but Google's intention is to 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 Rise of Web Over Print Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Jonah Bloom wrote an interesting article in this week’s Crain’s New York Business about the proposed death of newspapers. Bloom came to the defense of the newspaper industry, claiming that the industry is not dying, but do need to revamp their digital content and technology. I won't go ...

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 ...

Make mine digital: Online marketing overtakes traditional approaches

Monday, June 9th, 2008

by Mallory Dash According to a few new reports that came out in the last week, digital marketing is becoming more and more established as an approach to strategic marketing efforts. Marketers are increasingly choosing an online approach over traditional media. And within online media, advertisers and marketers are relying more ...

Stopping a Blog Swarm

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

By Matt Clark As Paul Gillin said in The New Influencers, a single reference from a top blogger is sometimes all it takes to kick off a blog swarm, a massing of blog activity around one topic. Most PR professionals aim to create a swarm. We look for the ...