July 30, 2010

Are Blog Comments Dead?

As engagement and sharing on Twitter, Facebook and other social tools continues to increase, many bloggers are noticing a sharp decrease in comments on their blogs.  Of course, that doesn't mean that interest is declining.  RSS and email subscriptions, site traffic and social sharing may all be continuing to increase.  These are tracked through a variety of tools and even popular commenting system Disqus scours social networks to find blog posts being shared and displays those as "interactions".

July 13, 2010

Bain Capital Ventures Launches an Innovation Center

The site has a simple goal: turning your ideas into reality by providing the resources necessary to make that happen.  As they describe on the website:

July 7, 2010

Capturing One Day of Your Life

Would you like your chance at being co-director of a film that will be premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival? Well, depending on how interesting and creative your life is on July 24th, you may just have your opportunity.

October 11, 2009

Chasing the Human Web

Today AJ Leon stops by to share his thoughts on chasing the human web.  AJ is co-founder of The LaC Project, a regular contributor to workshifting.com (client project) and spends a lot of his time traveling the world helping impoverished communities.  You can connect with AJ on Twitter and Tumblr.

August 18, 2009

Gary Vaynerchuk Treats People Like Goldfish

I bet if you were just cruising through your tweets or feeds, this probably caught your eye huh?  You might be thinking that I'mgoldfish just trying to create a catchy title to get you to stop on by, right?  Well, if that's what you thought then you're partially correct.  Of course, I love it when you stop by here and am incredibly humbled by it.  However, in a recent tweet Gary stated that you should treat everyone like a goldfish.  So, what did he mean by this?

June 27, 2009

Give Your Facebook Page a Facelift

Recently Robert Scoble interviewed Caitlin O'Farrell for the new building43 site which was recently launched by Robert and the team over at RackSpace.  Caitlin is the program manager for consumer marketing at Facebook.  Caitlin spends her time working with celebrities or, as she notes, their publicists, to provide them with a Facebook presence.

February 25, 2009

Who I Learn From on a Daily Basis

One of the best parts of my day is being able to interact with all of you via this blog, Prime Cuts, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more.  I truly appreciate the conversations that we're able to have and always looking to find ways to engage more.

February 19, 2009

Linking PR and Journalists Together via Twitter

journchatEvery Monday night at 8p ET it begins.  People get comfortable in front of their computers and they begin sending out messages apologizing for what will take place over the next 3 hours for those who aren't joining.  Suddenly the Twitter stream starts filling up with messages being tagged #journchat at an alarming rate.  Have you experienced this yet?  Have you been wondering what it was?