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Top Tech Products of the Decade Were All About Communications

Posted by jongreer on December 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

HuffPost has a “top 11″ list of tech products of the decade, and I was stunned at how many of them were communications tools that radically reshaped the way we think, interact, and entertain ourselves.
Among HuffPo’s top 11:

iPod: little needs to be said, except, do you remember your life before having gigabytes of music in [...]

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What did you do with your summer?

Posted by jongreer on November 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

In a sign of things surely to come, a 29-year-old writer has just landed a sitcom deal with CBS to make a show out of his Twitter feed, ShitMyDadSays.
This is not April Fools, and this is not a joke. The Tweeter in question, Justin Halpern, had already signed a book deal with HarperCollins. He’s got [...]

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Teens Don't Twitter, Do They?

Posted by jongreer on July 23, 2009 · 1 Comment 

Twitter is all the rage now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be the CB radio of the Internet era. CB radio was all the rage in the early 70s and for a year or two, it seemed like it would be with us forever. Besides truckers, how many people do [...]

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To communicate in today's world, think "infosnacks"

Posted by jongreer on April 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Tweets. Text messages. Emails. Emoticons. LOL.
You name it, and we can shorten it into a tidbit of information. That’s an “infosnack.”
No longer do people want to “digest” a full newspaper article or curl up with a good book. Give me the story in 140 characters (twitter) or even less (TXTing) and let’s get it over [...]

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Is PR Being Infested With Ex-Journalists?

Posted by jongreer on January 13, 2009 · 4 Comments 

Every day, it seems, there are fresh reports of journalists hungrily moving over into PR for the paycheck. Still, the attitude about PR from the media never changes. Even as their friends go into PR, know-nothing journalists continue to lambast the profession. I know why, of course: because we have almost no professional standards of [...]

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The Great Thing About Twitter: You Can Lurk Before You Leap

Posted by jongreer on December 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

One thing to understand about Twitter: you can follow someone without their permission, unless they have set their profile so that they have to approve you [which is rarely the case].
This means that you can get someone’s Twitter handle, find them on Twitter and click “follow” and if it doesn’t give you the privacy notice, [...]

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Twit-pitching is the future of PR

Posted by jongreer on December 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

What’s “Twit-pitching?” It’s using Twitter or other social networks to reach out to the media to pitch stories. But you can’t really pitch them the old-fashioned way — that’s the beauty of it.
In a nutshell, Twit-pitching involves two things: relationships and concision. In other words, you have to have some sort of relationship with the [...]

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