Minnesota Monday – Communications Bloggers Posts From Last Week

March 15, 2010 · Categories: Minnesota, Online Communication, Online PR · View Comments 
Interesting posts from Minnesota communications bloggers for the week ending 03/14/10. Culled from the Minnesota Social Media Bloggers FriendFeed room. Steve Borsch comments on Comcast customer service in the wake of Oscar night service outages, then comments on the Minnesota Science & Tech Committee findings, and later examines the FCC broadband plan Andy Giefer snapped some shots of [...]

Soldiers Now Allowed To Tweet

CNN.com: U.S. military personnel are officially allowed to tweet. That’s the upshot of the Pentagon’s long-awaited policy on rank and file personnel using online social media, unveiled Friday. The new rules authorize access to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media Web sites from nonclassified government computers — as long as such activity doesn’t compromise operational [...]

Minnesota Monday – Communications Bloggers Posts From Last Week

March 8, 2010 · Categories: Minnesota, Online Communication, Online PR · View Comments 
Interesting posts from Minnesota communications bloggers for the week ending 03/07/10. Culled from the Minnesota Social Media Bloggers FriendFeed room. Desarae Veit professes her love for Google Voice Social Media for Healthcare Podcast: Albert Maruggi interviews Shawn Zehnder Lea [MP3] Phil Wilson posts a cool Google at a Glance infographic John Reinan takes on online customer relations then posts a [...]

Online Communication For Nonprofits

This is a series of interviews I did for Map for Nonprofits‘ Map TechWork Nonprofit Technologies Best Practices Web site. The interviews cover Google tools like Analytics, URL Builder, Trends, Insights for Search and YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TweetReach, as well as blogging and WordPress and Posterous in particular.

Trend: Haul Videos

Haul videos are the democratization of the home shopping network. They typically feature teen girls just back from the mall, shopping bag in hand, gushing over their purchases (or “haul”) to their webcam to be uploaded to YouTube for the world to see. Haul videos are funny, a little weird, and they’re the latest thing. The following [...]

Minnesota Monday – Communications Bloggers Posts From Last Week

March 1, 2010 · Categories: Minnesota, Online Communication, Online PR · View Comments 
Interesting posts from Minnesota communications bloggers for the week ending 2/28/10. Culled from the Minnesota Social Media Bloggers FriendFeed room. Mike recaps the MIMA panel on emerging technologies at Idea Peepshow Rocio Zamora Arzola of Iconoculture (client) observes that Consumer Reports is catering to Latinos Robert Stanke is abandoning Twitter for Google Buzz Joe Loveland talks bureaucratic branding Lee Odden discusses Brandividualism John Reinan examines the [...]

Minnesota Monday – Communications Bloggers Posts From Last Week

February 22, 2010 · Categories: Minnesota, Online Communication, Online PR · View Comments 
Interesting posts from Minnesota communications bloggers for the week ending 2/21/10. Culled from the Minnesota Social Media Bloggers FriendFeed room. Jon Gordon reports on a study of most shared news stories, then reports on a geographic analysis of Facebook users, and then asks what the Kevin Smith incident says about the state of PR [MP3s] Jason Douglas lists five questions to ask [...]

The Future Journalist

This is a twitcam recording from Mashable’s NextUp NYC. The event attempted to look at the changing media landscape and the evolving role of journalists in it. The speakers are Sree Sreenivasan and  Vadim Lavrusik.

Google Buzz Impressions

Uploaded to Flickr by Tilak Bisht

[/caption] After playing around with Google Buzz since its release, some thoughts: Large Networks: It is most useful and beneficial to those who already had large networks in place. The Robert Scobles and Pete Cashmores and even the Steve Rubels (who’s been pretty much thumbs-down on Buzz) of [...]

Minnesota Politics & Social Media

Blois Olson introduces the social media & politics panel

[/caption] I can credit the start of my career in online strategy in large part to my fascination with online political communication. In 1994, I read about the first online gubernatorial debate held by E-Democracy (of which I am now a board member); but [...]

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