Facebook Fortnight: A Media Changer?

Some interesting thoughts from Paul Armstrong, Kindred‘s Director of Social Media: Did Facebook just become a (bigger) threat to broadcasters or their saviour?

My own take on this is that this is a good way for Facebook to use it’s own technology to help with  it’s own PR/marketing efforts.

I don’t think broadcasters will be any more threatened by this than by any other kind of Livecasting, but when you look at how many media properties are reporting on interviews and/or delivering highly polished videos, I can’t help wondering if some of them may not be encouraged to go on and adopt the technology themselves (great PR for Livecast). Whether this should be from their own site or from their Facebook site is another debate altogether.

Claire Thompson, freelance PR consultant, Waves PR

eWEEK’s got an iphone app

eWEEK's iphone app

eWEEK Europe (UK)  - one of the big IT publications, now has an iphone app.

Which I’d check out and review if I had an iphone, but you can get it here:

http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/eweek-europe-uk

Click here for blog about it and why I think it’s significant: IT Toolbox.

(Claire Thompson, freelance PR consultant, Waves PR)

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News: Trouble in Mexico

For immediate release– 29 April 2010

Mexico: International Mission Attacked in Oaxaca
Human Rights Defenders, Activists and Journalists Killed or Missing

Yesterday at 14h30, a convoy of over 40 international and local human rights defenders, activists and journalists were attacked by an armed group in the town of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca State.

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The PR Message: Write for Google, Not for Fun

Claire Thompson, freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR: First report from the thupr event on Natural SEO, on writing for Google, not for fun.

A decade ago, at the height of the dotcom boom, on the verge of a dotcom bust, I was freelancing at Gnash Communications, where First Tuesday was busily linking dotcoms with funding in something akin to a gold-rush, and Lastminute.com was launched.

In the background was a whippersnapper company, an anarchic, exciting challenger:  Google.

Today, as firmly entrenched on our desktops as Microsoft itself (if not more so), Google’s the company that gets away with it.

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