Archive for the “Public Relations” category

Dear PR Firms: Please Have An Angle When Pitching To Bloggers

by Tony Hung on July 22, 2008

So, if you’ve been blogging for any stretch of time, you might get contacted from time to time by public relations firms on behalf of web entities looking for a mention.  I know I do.  Perhaps I’m not so important (…)

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Google News2.0: Adding Complexity To Stories, Plus PR’s Next Great Frontier?

by Tony Hung on August 8, 2007

As Google Blogoscoped points out, there are at least two examples of Google News commenting, and I have to say its pretty darn cool.  One of them involves how branding influences children’s choices, with the example being that the McDonald’s brand (…)

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Sony’s Playstation 3 Tries To Improve Bottom Line By Spying On You

by Tony Hung on July 4, 2007

Public Relations disaster to follow.

Yet Another Botched Opportunity For a Social Media News Release (WHY? — I mean, “why?”)

by Tony Hung on July 2, 2007

I’m going to yak about Yahoo! SmartAds in a moment, but I’d just like to take a second and rant about yet another plain vanilla press release.  Right now, at the top of Techmeme, is the Yahoo Press Release for (…)

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