Category: Social Networks

  • Dancing the virtual night away

    What a blast! A great party last night at the Coca-Cola Virtual Thirst pavilion in Second Life. Organized by my crayon colleague CC Chapman (aka Cleon Goff), the event featured MoShang Zhao live from Taiwan playing his unique Chinese Chill…

  • Daily Telegraph starts reader blogs

    Today the Daily Telegraph newspaper launched My Telegraph, a free service that enables readers to set up their own blog. An interesting move – a first by a national UK newspaper? – which is a good example of how a…

  • The Ragan and Melcrum competition

    Last week, Chicago-based Ragan Communications launched MyRagan.com, a free service aimed at communicators around the world that’s a mix of social network, knowledge and information resource. It’s captured a lot of imaginations and got off to a cracking start. When I…

  • Listen to PR Unspun

    Last week in London, I was on a panel to discuss a broad and thorny question: How is the PR industry adapting now that social media is heading for mainstream adoption? The event was PR Unspun, organized by Chinwag Live.…

  • Ragan launches social network for communicators

    A phoned-in comment to yesterday’s FIR podcast from PR podcaster Bryan Person brought news of a new social network for communicators launched by Chicago-based Lawrence Ragan Communications. MyRagan.com quietly opened for business a few days ago. So quiet, in fact,…