Category: Web

  • Facebook fatigue and niche networks

    Social networking site Facebook saw its first drop in UK users in January, according to research from Nielsen Online as reported by the BBC. Users fell 5% to 8.5 million in January from 8.9 million in December, according to data…

  • Defining the press release

    Richard McManus recounts an email exchange with Business Wire in which the news distribution service said companies and marketers can use Business Wire to bypass journalists and bloggers to get into key news sources like Techmeme and search engine results.…

  • Overlay TV could be for you

    If you create videos for online use and would like to include context-relevant links in those videos to content elsewhere on the internet, today’s launch of Overlay.TV could be of interest to you. You’ll also likely be interested if the…

  • Quit smoking with Twitter

    Or more precisely, with Qwitter, a neat idea from TobaccoFreeFlorida, an advocacy group in that US state dedicated to raising awareness of health and other issues related to smoking. Note I didn’t say this group is anti smoking. It is,…

  • In the Daily Dog

    Last week, I had a terrific conversation with Brian Pittman, director of content for Bulldog Reporter and Bulldog Reporter’s PR University. We spent an hour discussing digital immigrants, mindset shifting in PR practice, challenges for communicators with social media, what’s…