Yup, it’s that time again. Weekly links are up.
Before we begin, Conversation Agent author Valeria Maltoni interviewed today on the Buzz Bin and is taking Qs from readers. Just visit this very interesting post and comment, she’ll answer you.
The PR 3.0 gaff is quite amazing to me. PRWeek emailed me today telling me I was wrong, that all PR firms are blog believers. That’s kind of like George Bush trying to justify the war… again. Anyway, here’s their official response to 3.0 fury. What to like about PRWeek’s approach to this: The newspaper is dialoging and having a conversation with its constituency. This is progress. No matter what the end result on the moniker “3.0,” this demonstrates the true power of new media.
Another recent interviewee Communication Overtones’ author Kami Huyse has a hot, hot posting on the seven types of social media forms. This Communication Overtones posting is a great primer for anyone trying to figure out the whole new media environment. A must read from a very savvy marketing mind.
OK, next on the plate. Locally, Andrea Morris’s Write Ideas Marketing and Matt Smith’s Integrative Media are both making serious headway on blog traffic. The key to success? Great tagging, and intelligent leveraging of buzz topics.
Another DC Metro blog features LComm accountant McGuire Associates president Kathleen Huston. In Life and Times of Accounting she writes about how succesful her blog has been , inspiring conversation everyday with clients and vendors. A great example of how a basic blog can benefit a small business. There’s some shameless LComm promo here, too, so be forewarned.
Thanks for mentioning our blog today. I was explaining to an investment person the other day what a blog was, how it works, etc. She had gone to mine and read it. I felt for one minute like an expert … then I lapsed back into my real roll of “learning what blogs are all about”!