DIY Public Relations Week

This week is all about public relations. As such, I am going to post (at least) five different items related to media relations and personal branding using PR tactics.  These posts are geared for people that unfamiliar with public relations tactics, dealing with...

Embrace or Protect

In today’s world of social media, limitless creativity and mashups, more companies and artists are having to answer the question – Should we allow people to be creative with our brand(s) or should we protect against it. There are examples of companies...

Ask for Insight, And Say Thanks

Autodesk, maker of software for various industries, did something fantastic with one of their blogs. They allowed customers to test out their software and provide feedback. Then, they posted findings from the trial run and thanked customers who participated. I think...

6 Months of Blogging

My blog is 6 months old. As such, here’s an update on it has gone so far. $5.15  – earnings from Amazon and Google AdSense. $29.70 – paid to Typepad for hosting this blog.2,452  – total visitors.#1 search ranking on Yahoo! –...