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Blogging and Public Affairs

Posted by: kegill on: 29 March 2006

I’m on a panel Wednesday morning with Robert Scoble and Pam Miller: "Blogging: Its power and impact on public affairs and the media" is a panel discussion before an audience of public sector PIOs in Seattle.

What to say, what to say? I could start with my comments from a PRSA workshop earlier this month. [...]

I’m a Dinosaur

Posted by: kegill on: 29 March 2006

I love reading. I love reading the paper. Heaven is starting the day with coffee and the morning paper. Or two! (Seattle + New York Times).
It’s not unlike wandering around a bookstore … or Nordstrom’s … where you finger the merchandise and impulse buy. A leisurely journey through the morning paper will provide food for [...]

iPods Take Hold in Rural Georgia University

Posted by: kegill on: 14 March 2006

About 100 of the 300 faculty at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville (founded in 1889; enrollment: 5,500 students) are using iPods for education or research — a remarkable adoption rate for any campus but particularly for a rural one. Even the President’s cabinet is using podcasts!

After [President Dorothy] Leland and Jim Wolfgang, [...]

Notes from the Corporate Panel

Posted by: kegill on: 10 March 2006

The four corporate reps provided very diverse examples of how major organizations are integrating new media into their corporate communication strategies.
Nancy Blanton, Port of Seattle, explained some of the process behind the Port’s new website design (yeah! personas!). The focus shifted from the organization to its audiences. One result is a real-time flight info [...]

Challenging PR Folks

Posted by: kegill on: 10 March 2006

Giovanni Rodriguez, Eastwick Communications, emphasizes social computing in his keynote remarks at the Puget Sound PRSA seminar on Integrating Web Communications in PR Campaigns. PR is not dead, but is going through a metamorphosis. “Many of us are helping our clients (for the first time) to relate to the public.” The tools for this interaction [...]

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What do you say to a room full of PR folks in five minutes to convince them of the importance of social software … blogging networks … word of mouth? You could begin with quotables:
"We have to convince journalists that the consumer owns the story," says Dan Bradley, vice president of broadcast news at Media [...]

From Blogs to Books

Posted by: kegill on: 9 March 2006

On-demand publisher Lulu is counting down the weeks to its first Lulu Blooker Prize for books based on blogs or websites. Judges: Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and co-creator of Boing Boing; Paul Jones, of ibiblio and UNC; and Robin (RobLimo) Miller, is editor-in-chief of OSTG.
The short list of contenders includes books from already published [...]

PRSA Seminar Next Week

Posted by: kegill on: 2 March 2006

I’ll be joining Paul Andrews and other Seattle-area business and tech folks for a regional PRSA seminar next week: Integrating Web Communications in Public Relations Campaigns. I’m on the media panel as a blogger and academic. :)


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