German blogging survey
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Sebastian
Dr. Jan Schmidt, whom I met briefly at the recent Weblogs, Podcasting & Videojournalism-conference has initiated an online survey. Great survey and it seems to be very fruitful: Just a day after the launch he has already close to 1000 entries. Way to go. A little anecdote. During the above mentioned conference he gave everybody […]
Light blogging LAST week
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Sebastian
In contrast to the usual “light blogging ahead”-message I would like to explain why I did not blog that much lately: I just did not have the time. Apart from work, there was a lot of preparation on the private side. On Monday morning 7am my wife embarged on a two-month-trip to Jerusalem, Israel to […]
Blog Relations PR Survey
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Sebastian
Matthew and Hugh have published a summary of the results of their Blog Relations PR Survey. Overall, PR professionals do read blogs a lot (50%) and pitch blogs occasionally or regularly (42%). Nobody from Germany was included in this survey, I am betting that results would vary a lot. (via Steve’s daily links)
Blogs just one tool in the PR toolbox
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Sebastian
A very interesting discussion going on in the comments of Jeremy Pepper’s article at Global PR Blog Week 2.0 . In the article he looked back at the ‘PR is dead’ meme. I totally agree that PR will live long and prosper though most likely in a form different than 10 years ago. However, this […]
Attention Trust
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Sebastian
As you might have noticed, I have added a new logo to the right sidebar. Via Seth Godin’s blog, I came to a great episode of the Gillmor Gang Podcast, called Attention Gang. The discussion scratched the surface of the concept of attention, a concept which is put forth by Michael Goldhaber in a – […]
The Power of a (Brand) Name
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Sebastian
Loic Le Meur and Heiko Hebig are pleased that Dr. Hubert Burda’s , yes, THAT Dr. Hubert Burda, new blog is running on Movable Type. Well, congrats. I think the future will show more of these announcements, comparable with sports, e.g. “Spreeblick signs with blogg.de“. (Nico would like that, I am sure.) Anyway, I don’t […]