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Social Media and Blogging Ethics and a Code of Conduct
Bloody great, best-in-breed, article about online PR and marketing ethics by my buddy David Gelles of the Financial Times — he is surely a golden child and new media journalist rock star… be sure to...
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Chelsea Reviews My Comm350 Guest Lecture
I spoke to two classes of communications majors today about digital PR and social media marketing. It was a wonderful experience. The University of Maryland undergraduate course was called Comm350:...
View ArticleThe New Yorker Online Book Club
I have been a loyal subscriber to the New Yorker every since I was 16-years-old in Honolulu, HI. To me, it represented everything literary and urbane, even though I have never lived in Manhattan. Now...
View ArticleBlogs Have Either Died or Consolidated
While I have only met James Joyner of Outside the Beltway fame once, we keep in touch a little bit. I have always admired his business and blogging acumen. Well, it is James’ 6-year blogiversary, and...
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Nah Nah Nah Nah Hey Hey Dubai
I wonder if anything like this will ever happen in the United States? I wonder if there will ever be a situation when loads and loads of Rich and Powerful Americans will roll their Mercedes to JFK,...
View ArticleThe State of Buzz (and Word of Mouth) in 2009
I spent three years working at New Media Strategies, from 2003-2006, doing buzz marketing and have spent from 2007-2009 doing some semblance of word-of-mouth and public relations. As a result, I am...
View ArticleIndians Call But Filipinos Text in Mobile Phone Culture
I know that in Africa, there is a culture of folks owning one phone but many SIM cards. One card is good for texting, one card is good for receiving calls, one card is best for calling one place and...
View ArticleBL Ochman Debunks Six Social Media Myths Over at Business Week
BL and I adore eachother so I was very excited to receive an email from her last night with a link to her latest article on Business Week, Using social media to market your business is a good idea....
View ArticleOnline Reputation Management Needs to Be Proactive
We do brand reputation and online reputation management and the number one thing we tell our clients is that if you don’t amplify your brand online — add some signal to the noise, if you will — then...
View ArticleDoes Nina Link Make Too Much Money?
I don’t know why I am posting this outside of the fact I love seeing what people make for their jobs. There are a surprising number of non profit heads and directors who make way north of $250,000,...
View ArticleThank You Fresh Air Fund Camp Counselor Bloggers!
Fresh Air Fund not only needs host families, donations, and children every year, FAF also needs camp counselors to staff the summer camps every year. The Fresh Air Fund and Abraham Harrison LLC reached...
View ArticleThe contorversy about Yelp
Jonathan Trenn popped this insightful article about Yelp over on Marketing Conversation, The contorversy about Yelp (and be sure to check out David Gelles’ article on a similar topic over at the...
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I Love Dude Food But Come On — Good Lord!
Via my friend Jon Eick from So Good Blog via Buzzfeed via No-Name247.
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I think I committed suicide in Twinity
My CEO, Mark Harrison, downloaded and installed a new 3D virtual world called Twinity, based in Berlin, that will recreate the world’s coolest cities, starting with Berlin. Mark loves Berlin more...
View ArticlePublic Relations and Communications’ Future is Bright!
I just returned from guest lecturing for Chris Boesen at American University’s School of Communication’s Public Communication department. The class was full of seniors who aspire to join the PR...
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Lee Hopkins on Email Marketing in Digital PR
When I realized that I could download the OPML file from the Power 150 site and then hack it around into a contact list of over 900 of the top advertising, marketing, PR, and SEO bloggers on the...
View ArticleAdvice to a PR Professional of Tomorrow
Earlier this week, I guest lectured on digital PR at the American University and reported on the experience, Public Relations and Communications’ Future is Bright!. I said that I would not write...
View ArticleWhiter than Wonderbread and Puffy Clouds
One thing that I am not is touchy about the fact that I love what I love. And I love Moleskine notebooks. And I love manual typewriters, especially the Hermes 3000, and I love quite a lot of other...
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I Resent Tropicana’s Rebranding as Fugly
I knew it sucked — and I knew it would fail. And it has, according to Shopper Culture, Poor Shoppability Sinks Tropicana’s New Packaging: Find it quick, though, because they’re bringing back the old....
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Erika Mauer Was My Neighbor in Berlin
Berlin is surely the coolest city on earth. Erika La Tour Eiffel (AKA Erika Mauer) was my next-door neighbor for a while in Berlin. She is an Objectum Sexual and here is her story! (You can watch all...
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Full text of President Obama’s Inauguration Speech 2009
This is the full text of President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration speech, courtesy of NowPublic, KansasCity.com, thanks to a link from @Aisle7Full text of President Obama’s Inauguration Speech 2009My...
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Reverend Joseph Lowery Inauguration Benediction Transcript
I was amazed and impressed by Reverend Joseph Lowery’s Inauguration Benediction from yesterday, the2009 inauguration of Barack Obama, so I asked the Twitterverse for a link to a transcript of the...
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Knife Pornography From Boing Boing Gadgets
One of my goals in life is to be on Boing Boing, so in many ways my dreams are coming true every day in so many ways in the form of getting a guest blog post on Boing Boing Gadgets about the ultimate...
View ArticleThank You Fresh Air Fund Holiday Bloggers!
In December, we at Abraham Harrison helped the Fresh Air Fund reach out to bloggers and folks online in order to remind the online Fresh Air Fund friends and family that they both need donations during...
View ArticleIn Response to My Whopper Virgins Response
When I wrote my scathing response to the Whopper Virgins campaign as perpetrated by Burger King over on Ad Age’s Global Idea Network, Ian Lurie responded with Whopper Virgins: Not Appalling. Not...
View ArticleAbraham Harrison’s Beginnings: Washington, DC and a thatch-roofed hut on...
We at Abraham Harrison, LLC, have built our entire company around enabling our team members to live and work from anywhere in the world; as long as they have a good internet connection and their...
View ArticleOnline Community Involvement and becoming a Respected Hero
We at Abraham Harrison, LLC, can win you tremendous respect, gratitude, and powerful word-of-mouth promotion from the very word-of-mouth driven online communities. The staff of Abraham Harrison can be...
View ArticlePosition your key staff as experts in their field online
If you Google the name of our President and COO, “Chris Abraham“, you will see what it means to dominate the search engine results and own a position as an expert in a field. We can do the same for...
View ArticleSuccessful SNS’s Will Be Modeled on the College Campus
The future of Social Network Services (SNS) can be discovered on High School and College campuses. I believe that topic-specific “vertical” SNS’s are very important, but I also think that the model...
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Heal Your Home Space With a Spring Cleansing
My girlfriend circa 1998-2001 was a little witchy. No, witchy is not a placeholder for a word that might insult women — she was and is lovely — she was a little bit of a witch, including Tarot and all...
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