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Bloomberg & Gizmodo –See Any Difference?
Courtesy of the NYT, a great (inadvertent) comparison between the way Gawker Media operates and the new Bloomberg BusinessWeek operates. First up, Gawker and the iPhone. Turns out that Gawker pays for...
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Comms Challenge – Goldman Sachs & The Pope
In a tweet earlier today, I wondered who had the bigger comms challenge – Goldman Sachs or the Vatican? This was spurred by this Memo From Vatican City in the NYT today, plus other coverage looking at...
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Building & Maintaining Trust
This article in the NYT today about politicians, exaggeration and YouTube reminded me of some presentations I’ve done on building and maintaining trust in an era of social media and transparency. For...
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Partners!
I’m packing up and heading out for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. Always one of my favorite events of the year! SteveB, Kevin Turner, tons of partners (biggest ever this year!). And in DC...
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Oil & Water
Tomorrow I’m heading for Atlanta GA for a week of meetings. I like Atlanta, a fun city. MARTA, heat, peachetree aves everywhere, what’s not to like? Some years back, it was also the scene of one of...
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Sticky Lies & The Speed of Truth
The last few weeks have brought a deluge of examples of how sticky lies can be, especially when unchallenged with great speed. I know, “lies” is a pejorative word, and it would be more politically...
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Invisible Technology
Over the years, I’ve had a fair amount of what some might call gadgets…things that I purchased to help make my life easier. Here at the house, I have what my wife calls "the drawer where devices go to...
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How Not To Do Profile
First I saw this piece in the Washington Post profiling long time PR person for Hillary Clinton Philippe Reines and thought, wow, that was sort of painful. Then I saw the Gawker take on the story,...
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Transparent Briefing (repost from long long ago)
NB: This is from a much older post on a blog no longer active. For starters, I am not going to use this space to talk in detail about the Wired story itself. I have my POV of course, and those who live...
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Radical Translucency (another repost from long ago, but somewhat on topic)
Over at The Long Tail and at Wired, Chris Anderson has been writing and blogging about Radical Transparency, the idea that growing recognition of the power of openness will be what marks the first...
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