Category: Public Relations

  • The PR battleground for social networks

    With social networks like Facebook and MySpace in the news a great deal, I find it interesting to get a sense of the depth of behind-the-scenes business planning going on and the role of PR in that planning. According to…

  • GM Europe launches social media newsroom

    When you think of General Motors and social media, you tend to think of the FastLane Blog and GM vice chairman and corporate blogger-in-chief, Bob Lutz. GM were pioneers when FastLane launched in January 2005, setting a standard for the…

  • When saying sorry won’t be enough

    Ars Technica reports that Microsoft’s anti-piracy service, Windows Genuine Advantage, suffered a global outage on Friday: Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista…

  • Skype outage and restoring confidence

    Even if you aren’t a user of Skype, the internet telephone service, you probably won’t have missed seeing or hearing about the total service outage during Thursday and Friday last week. Service came back up over the weekend and today…

  • Right to the heart of full-content RSS feeds

    If you offer an RSS feed from your website or blog that isn’t the full content, here’s something for you to think about. Like many people, I’m an RSS creative-consumer. That means I read almost everything of interest to me…