Year: 2008

  • The legitimacy of print on demand

    Earlier this year in an episode of our FIR podcast, Shel and I discussed legitimacy of print on demand, a topic that resulted from some emotional and critical posts about print on demand and vanity publishing. Essentially, the original poster…

  • Pitch your story with TwitterPitch

    It’s a novel ideal – provide an easy way for people who want to pitch you to do so via Twitter. Imagine – a pitch in 140 characters or less and that comes not via email! And so we have…

  • Survey to help explore future PR trends in Europe

    EUPRERA, the European Public Relations Education and Research Association, is conducting new research aimed at exploring future trends in public relations and communication management across Europe. The European Communications Monitor 2008 includes an online survey, what EUPRERA calls “the most…

  • Addressing the PR spam question on FIR Live

    Last October, Chris Anderson of Wired magazine outed over 300 email addresses as spammers. In May, Lifehacker.com’s Gina Trapani started a PR Spammers wiki. These two acts are symptomatic of growing frustration and anger by many people who perceive the…

  • Top 10 disruptive technologies according to Gartner

    Gartner, an IT industry analyst firm, has published a report on what its analysts see as the top ten disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012: Multicore and hybrid processors Virtualisation and fabric computing Social networks and social software Cloud computing…