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Columbus bloggers get lucky

October 21st, 2008 · 6 Comments

Central Ohio bloggers, PR pros and Twitter fans, it’s good to be us. Tomorrow night, Wednesday, October 22, is our next official Columbus Tweetup. This one’s being held at Opera Columbus and the food sounds terrific. We even have out of town VIP guests driving down just for the Tweetup. Have you RSVPd yet? If not, you can do that here. [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Networking · Ohio · PR · social media

Cool news for Columbus bloggers

July 24th, 2008 · 42 Comments

It’s a crazy day in the blogosphere. Twitter is all abuzz over lost followers but if you’re a Twitterhead in central Ohio, you’re in luck. Rocky VanBrimmer, the king of social networking, has created a Twitter “lost and found” page for folks to re-connect with followers they’ve lost. Happy hunting. Oh, and Twitter? To quote the [...]

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The best pitches are not pitches at all

June 9th, 2008 · 5 Comments

While the battles rage on between PR people and journalists out there in one sphere of the social media universe, here in the neighborhood of the everyday, I’ve had some pretty wonderful encounters with media contacts this week.
It occurs to me that my very best pitches are not pitches at all, but rather offers to [...]

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Two blog responses

May 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

I’ve been thinking for a while now that bloggers and PR people are like those couples who keep breaking up and getting back together, over and over again. While they’re apart they talk trash about each other to anyone who will listen, but then when they’re together they can’t keep their hands off each other. [...]

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