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Bad PR Guy, Naughty PR Guy. Social Media Is Outing You!

Chris Brogan has an excellent post about a PR executive who blind emailed a news release to him a couple of days ago and embargoed it. Here’s the salient paragraph:

Twitter Thoughts

Here’s a random review of some recent coverage of Twitter:

According to MediaPost:

Despite phenomenal growth, Twitter still hasn’t reached mainstream adoption, according to Heather Hopkins, vice president, research, Hitwise Intelligence, who analyzed the service’s Internet visitation rates in the U.S. While visits to Twitter.com are up eightfold year-over-year, and have more than doubled in the past three months alone, she noted that the site still ranked as #439 among all social networks and forums last week.

WTF? I Thought Good Customer Service Was Dead

This is a story about local business, word-of-mouth marketing and good customer service. This is not fiction. It actually happened to me yesterday. I’m not making this up.

Technorati Is Dead To Me

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Start digging, Technorati is dead. I’m sure, like the old man in Spamalot, Technorati is protesting that “I’m not dead yet.” But trust me, the corpse is quickly reaching room temperature. Bring out your dead.

Twittering Journalists – Part 2

Here are some more media outlets using Twitter, mostly from Red 66. Please add to the list if you know some we’ve missed.

47 News, Tokyo, Japan @47news

ABC News, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia @abcnewsbrisbane

AgendaTwiMedios @agendatwitter

AmericasReport @AmericasReport

Breaking News Alerts @BreakingNewsOn, @LivePressAlert

CNET News @CNETNews

Twittering Journalists

UPDATE 12/19/2009 – I have consolidated all of the Twittering Journalists wiki into Twitter lists.

Twittering Media Outlets

Twittering US Journalists

Twittering Canadian Journalists

Or consider reading my Media Outlets Twittering paper from paper.li.

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UPDATE: Twittering Journalists has been moved to this wiki.

Top 10 Story Starter Tips For Blocked Bloggers

Are you blogged out? Got writer’s block big time. So big even my previous post on writer’s block didn’t help? Never fear, your doctor of creativity is here. I have some big time block busters.

Journalists A-Twitter

Journalists are not adopting Twitter as rapidly as one would think. Twitter is a way to quickly reach new sources, as well as to build a personal following for your reportage.

Be My Guest

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Hey! Yes, you. Are you interested in writing a guest article for this blog? And why wouldn’t you be? THINKing has a worldwide Alexa ranking of 133,100 and a US rating of 33,108, so you have an opportunity to build your personal brand.

7 Tips To Bust Writer’s Block

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The toughest thing about writing a news release is getting started. But writing doesn’t have to be hard. Here are a few tips and tricks to help you beat writer’s block.

Before the story, think about: