Comments for PR and the Social Web

Comment on Prime the Pump or it Tends to Run Dry by Nikoleta Liti

Nikoleta Liti — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:41:45 +0000

I can see you point …which is actually verified from a recent research! Corporate blogging seems to be in the decline.
The survey, released from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth says that the percentage of companies that maintain blogs fell to 37% in 2011 from 50% in 2010, based on its survey of 500 fast-growing companies listed by Inc. magazine.

It’s easy to think that maintaining a blog is a hard work and as you mentioned if you don’t update your channels in to a regular basis the traffic will certainly face a decline. For the later, is important for someone to think strategically before to take the decision of which platform needs and launch one. He should be able to reassure that he will make the most of it because to my mind is worse to present a bad platform rather than not having one.

Comment on Twitter Outs Trenton Oldfield the Boat Race Swimmer by Teymour Mirza

Teymour Mirza — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:57:06 +0000

Well wow. Mr Oldfield has been “outed”.
The comment regarding Emily Davison going to Oxford University is a little outdated, but good on you for linking to http://elitismleadstotyranny.squarespace.com/

If this page leads just one person to get off their behind and actually take action against the global elite operation that has been established for the best part of two centuries; then that would not be a bad thing.

Anger is a gift.

Comment on Twitter Outs Trenton Oldfield the Boat Race Swimmer by twat

twat — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:28:10 +0000

He’s a C**T

Comment on Twitter Outs Trenton Oldfield the Boat Race Swimmer by kmccaughey

kmccaughey — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:33:22 +0000

You might want to do some research before writing him off as a loony. I would have sent him this reply, but he is uncontactable:

“Hi,

I just wanted to say how proud I was of you today doing what you did. I didn’t know a thing about it until I saw it on TV.
Have you heard of The Venus Project? If not I think you should take a look.

I woke up to this about 3 years ago and since then have been trying to get my head round it. This was after watching Zeitgeist 1,2 &3 (internet stuff which is freely distributed) and learning about how things really work and how we are completely exploited.

I’m not some embittered crank or anything, I am totally realistic and completely sane, but I am now convinced that most work is slavery and that our whole economy is based on debt and servitude in order to keep us in control.

You list some ideas about what could be done by individuals, but I really really wish there was some kind of a movement. Not one for straggly beard wavers and Jesus sandal hippies (joke – I love hippies ;) but one for ordinary people. I wish that people would watch some of the stuff I have (and probably you have), read a bit, research and inform themselves. If this was the case then I think there would be some kind of a revolution. For the benefit of anyone snooping on your email, by that I DO NOT mean any type of violent attacks, I mean civil and peaceful change.

Well done for today. People will take the piss out of you and mark you up as a loony, but I know that you are just more informed than they are.

All the best,

Kevin”

Comment on LinkedIn and the Meaning of Connections by eztephen

eztephen — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:35:39 +0000

Finally, someone who see’s it all the same as I do. Admittedly my Facebook has reached 500 people – but I talk to less than a 50 of them, and never all at once.
On LinkedIn, I have about 120 connections. But only because I wanted to know the people, or I had met them at least once. Yet I rarely use the service to chat.
Many social-connectivity sites are very voyeuristic, not truly used for discussions. Reciprocal promotion is fine for a while, but eventually turns into a dead-end with no consequence.
As an online entrepreneur with twelve years experience online, you’d think I’d say otherwise. Yet I say ‘Thank you’ posting an article that succinctly says how I feel more often about the whole online dating, oops I mean connections scene.

Comment on LinkedIn and the Meaning of Connections by Sean Fleming (@flemingsean)

Sean Fleming (@flemingsean) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:02:29 +0000

I totally see where you’re coming from. But 500 in five years looks exactly like what you describe here… the gradual increase of new contacts, with older ones left in situ.

It’s people who join and within a matter of weeks break through the 500 barrier that look to me like they are less concerned with a valuable network and more with being perceived to be popular.

Comment on Seven Predictions for the Future of PR by Chris Norton

Chris Norton — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:10:20 +0000

Rob this is the best post you have written in ages and agree with pretty much all of it. Especially that social media will just become media – you just have to look at how journalists report direct from people’s twitter streams now.

Brilliant post – well done.

Comment on Google Says No Need to Tag Along by roasaek

roasaek — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:57:51 +0000

Thanks for snhirag the matt cutts video. My best practie is to keep the title less than 65 characters.

Comment on Google Says No Need to Tag Along by Reyes

Reyes — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:31:33 +0000

just being a bit peiantdc, but the Title tag is not a meta tag, it’s a html tag. Only the description (which google uses and nearly all search engines use) or the keywords (which some search engines use) are meta tags when talking about SEO.

Comment on Spotify on iPhone: Official by Sally

Sally — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:11:15 +0000

They shuold just call it dead. Android has already nailed shut its coffin.