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- Zappos CEO: transparency helped employees during layoffs
- Just under two weeks ago Zappos.com, the online shoe retailer, very publicly laid off nearly 8 percent of its workforce. The truth is, the company didn't intend for everything to be so public. It just was, due to the social media darling's corporate culture of transparency. Is...
- Tags: Layoff, Employee, Twitter, Zappos.com, Public Relations, Workforce Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Social media will not kill PR, but it does expose industry weakness
- The way I see it, social media isn't putting PR in jeopardy, but it has exposed a weakness in PR that was always there -- too much focus on dialing for dollars and not enough focus on making PR stretch to support real business initiatives. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Industry, Social Media, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio, Horn Group
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Ballmer: We're not interested in Yahoo anymore
- Updated: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the software giant has no intention of making a new offer for Yahoo--even though the Internet company is on sale relative to its first offer. Via ZDNet Australia Techmeme Speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia CEDA lunch...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Public Relations, Web 2.0, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Structures, Internet, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Mozilla: "Firefox's current overall market share is 20%"
- Every time I post NetApplications data on this blog several of you go to great lengths to point out to me that it's a flawed metric, especially when it comes to the market share for the browser Firefox. For one reason or another, NetApplications is wrong/bias/too US-centric/controlled by Microsoft* (delete...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Market Share, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, NetApplications, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- SAP, Waste Management and Lawyers
- Trashy behavior? Infoworld's got a real treat in this piece on the SAP/Waste Management litigation. Some of the highlights (and I do mean some not all) include: - Waste Management has produced over 940,000 documents while SAP has delivered over 300,000 ...
- Tags: Document, SAP AG, Litigation, Public Relations, Business Operations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Auditude could transform entertainment - but it won't
- Auditude's deal with MTV and MySpace PR is a huge vote of confidence in a business model that transforms today's copyright morass into a win-win-win for all involved. Auditude looks at this huge world of illegal filesharing and sees an untapped resource, just like grid computing sees...
- Tags: Distribution, Entertainment, Auditude, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Strategy, Public Relations, Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Corporate Communications, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Page Rank Check Tool (exe)
- Page Rank check tool enables Webmasters to check their page rank and monitor the PR of competitor's backlinks, estimate a value of their site, and more for free. Check their page rank and monitor the PR of competitor's backlinks. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Monitor, Tool, Rank, Best-Hosting-Reviews, Public Relations, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2008-10-23
- There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley
- It feels as if our economic version of Hurricane Katrina is building up energy, just off the coast of Silicon Valley. There is a definite feeling of something huge and nasty lurking just over the horizon. It's an ominous feeling highlighted by the fact that we...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Financial, Recession, Industry, Chip, Financial Crisis, VC, Capital Efficiency, Sequoia RIP Powerpoint Presentation, Public Relations, Web 2.0, Semiconductors, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Hardware, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Celebs on Twitter: Britney, Lance Armstrong, Stephen Fry and more
- The tech blogosphere went crazy over the weekend with news that Britney Spears had opened a Twitter account. Or more accurately, someone from Britney's PR team has begun Twittering on her behalf. That may still be a big deal in itself as it suggests that the micro-blogging service could go...
- Tags: Twitter, Public Relations, Blogging, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Management, Steve O\'Hear, Podcasts, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Desktops, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Glassdoor.com allows students free access to impartial job reviews
- One of my first posts writing here was on Glassdoor.com and how you can see your potential future salaries. After being told by a public relations person, they've now opened up the entire Glassdoor.com database for students for free, without having to post anything. They have a...
- Tags: Job, Glassdoor.com, Recruitment & Selection, E-mail, Public Relations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Did T-Mobile halt the G1 pre-order shipments?
- OK, now that you spent the time checking out my full T-Mobile G1 review you are wondering where your order is. There was talk yesterday that T-Mobile had sent out the pre-ordered devices early and I just checked and confirmed that my device did indeed leave the warehouse on 14...
- Tags: T-Mobile, Matthew Miller, Public Relations, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Blogger ethics, public relations... and you
- Two different conversations that are connected at the core by the way the news media continues to grow and change. Bloggers have a significant responsibility in wielding their keystrokes, whether they have 10 readers or 10,000. Public relations professionals are still grappling with how to best work with this new...
- Tags: Ethics, Blogger, Public Relations Professional, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!
- When Canada's Do Not Call registery came on-line last week it was an instant success - well, it took a bit more than two years to issue the outsourcing contract for it, nine months to get it working on Linux, and perhaps two days to port a highly secure (and...
- Tags: Do-Not-Call, Web, Linux, Phone, Data-processing, Web Site, Site, Bell Canada, Error Message, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Telemarketing, Advertising & Promotion, Web Technology, Public Relations, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Marketing, Marketing Research, Corporate Communications, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Student Technology Day: what it's all about
- It's not often I can say this but already, I'm surrounded in a room of 300 odd fashion unconscious, sweaty, unattractive idiots. Nevertheless, it's quite fun listening to some of the banter going around and about the place; some people work as interns at Microsoft, some at IBM and a...
- Tags: Student, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Public Relations, Productivity, Entrepreneurship, Virtualization, Game Players, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Mea culpa. HP has pledged mercury-free notebooks, too
- Something tells me that I MUST have blogged about this before, but it deserves a reminder, since I just mentioned Dell's intentions, which technically came later than Hewlett-Packard's. In any event, the goodly PR folks at HP remind me they, too, have pledged mercury-free notebooks. Their company's...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Public Relations, Notebooks, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Studio, Real trade lawsuits over RealDVD
- U.S. movie studios sued Real Networks in federal court today, alleging that Real's RealDVD product violates the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and breaches Real's contract with the DVD Copy Control Association. Read the MPAA's complaint. The move follows Real's release of the software today,...
- Tags: MPAA, Lawsuit, Movie, RealDVD, DVD, CSS, Public Relations, Consumer Electronics, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- PR blunders or "mystery meetings"
- PR blunders or "mystery meetings"It sounds like the new SOP for PRPublic relations and "press releases" seem to be in need of some sort of help. Perhaps a consultation with Jennifer Leggio? I read more and more about companies and websites being inundated with press releases that they have specifically...
- Tags: public relations
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- PR blunders or "mystery meetings"
- From time to time, I receive a note from a public relations person who represents one company or another that is clearly a disaster in the making. These notes appear to designed to pique my interest without giving me any information about the product or service to be discussed. As...
- Tags: Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Lessons learned from five years of Fedora
- The Fedora Project is celebrating its fifth birthday today. Congrats, Fedora! It seems like just yesterday I was covering the first release to see how or if Fedora would distinguish itself from Red Hat Linux. It's been really interesting to see how the project has grown over...
- Tags: Fedora Project, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Public Relations, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Google's insightful looking glass
- A few weeks ago I got a heads-up from Google's PR about their new search tool. Dubbed Google Insights for Search, it allows you to apply parameters to search for what other people are searching. Sounds a little strange and it did take a while for my...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web Site Development, Public Relations, Productivity, Web Technology, Entrepreneurship, Search, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
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