Is content becoming the new solution?

By that I mean: is the term ‘content’ going the way of the term ‘solution’? You know, morphing from a perfectly fine word to one that’s meaningless and cliched. I first started brooding about content after a recent meeting. The poor word...

A bigger fan of the story (than SEO)

On Inside PR 2.58, we talk about how Steve Rubel, one of the PR industry’s social media leaders, announced he deleted his two blogs – everything – and is starting again on Tumblr. He cites search engine optimization as one of the main reasons for his...

Inside PR 2.58: PR movies and a clean slate

This post was originally published on Inside PR 2.58. Just before we recorded this week’s show, I had lunch with Guy Skipworth, a friend, colleague and long-time listener.  He had an in-person comment for us: that we should talk about PR more… Thanks Guy, good...

Portrait of the artist – all it takes is one tweet…and talent

For the past year or so, my son, Jacob, has been creating and producing tracks – house music, as he calls it – electronic music in my world. He’s been uploading them to SoundCloud, sharing them with friends and slowly building a following. I think...

Mesh 2011: my Twitter notes

This week on Inside PR 2.57, we continue our discussion about conferences we attended and some of the things we learned.  (We also talk about Google’s acquisition of PostRank and the upcoming IPR-IPO :).) Here are my Twitter highlights from Mesh (with the mesh11...