Archive for the 'PR Tech' Category

Decide on an eReader for me!

Your opinion matters to me, great internet hordes. So please help me come to an agonizing decision over eReaders. I really want to buy one sometime around my birthday (Christmastime) when I believe the price wars will drop one or all popular models to a very nice gifting price.
FIRST OF ALL, I address the [...]

Quit playing games with my heart, Apple

e appears on my doorstep in the most dramatic way possible, soaked from the snow storm and holding a bouquet of my favorite Red Vines.
“I told you it was over, Apple,” I say, grabbing the licorice out of his hand (because they are crazy delicious). “Why must you keep opening these old wounds?”
“But I’ve [...]

Computer Words

Here are some computer words that you should learn to use properly, because computers aren’t going away, Jack.
Operating System: also called an OS. This is what your computer “runs on” and for the vast majority of us, that means Windows. Other OS’s include Leopard and Linux.
Browser: the thing you use to view the [...]

Google Wave Envy

Lately Google Wave has been rolling out its invitations, causing the following things to happen in rapid succession:
1. The people who didn’t get invites are besieged with feelings of techno-inadequacy. They will forever be behind the people who did get invites.
2. The people who got invites are besieged with every single person they’ve ever [...]

Continuing a conversation on customer service

The other night the #prbc tweeps and I had the pleasure of taking over #12for12k’s Twitter stream for an hour. If you’d like to donate to their drive for Doctors Without Borders, by the way, you should.
Anyhoo, Danny Brown and I were chatting and– Well, I’ll just show you, I guess.

I hate to beat [...]

The Future Probably Won’t Be At All Like This

As a social media coordinator, I’m sometimes considered the de facto Tech Support Person in the office. I guess this sometimes means that I’m also the office Futurist? That’s cool, I love the future!
The future is awesome because 1) we’re going to be wearing silver jumpsuits, 2) computers are going to be even more complicated [...]

Introducing PR Breakfast Club

Just a quick, way-busy Monday note: me and some of the most awesome PR peeps you’ll ever meet are blogging our little flacky hearts out at PRBreakfastClub.com. If you’re not familiar with the #prbc conversation on Twitter, I’ll break it down for you.
Other sweet posts for our big opening day include:

Kate donating money to [...]

Code Monkey

I see a lot of peeps on Twitter are slogging through their first Wordpress sites, and I thought a little HTML refresher would be helpful.
Everyone should know some HTML, by the way. At least learn how to make a hyperlink, m’kay? If you’ve never used a markup language, don’t be scared. Think of it [...]

On Being Polycomputeramorous

I own a Mac. I own a PC. I own a Linux machine. If I had the money, I would own more.
The longer I live, the more I think that there is no such thing as brand loyalty. There’s only the love of the game, of the idea, of the stuff that your stuff [...]

Top One Way to Use Social Media to Boost Your Personal Brand/Business/Public Relations Campaign/Life

1. Just. Do. It.
Stop whining. Stop analyzing. Stop second-guessing yourself. Stop trying to do what everyone else is doing. Stop being scared of making a mistake. Stop talking about it in tome-length essays and blog posts and articles.
Just get in there and DO it.