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Online Crisis Management: Respond In the Forum in Which You Were Attacked

Throughout my career in communications, one of my biggest challenges has been stopping clients from responding to crises or political attacks too widely. What do I mean? Well, more than one of my clients has insisted on responding to a blog post, or a letter to the

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John McCain: Tech Illiterate No More?

During last year’s presidential campaign, then-presidential candidate John McCain was roundly criticized for his lack of technological prowess.  As you can see from this story, he even professed in an interview that he was technologically “illiterate” — and even admitted that he didn’t use email or a

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Catch us on Twitter and Facebook

We’re taking a few days of end-of-summer vacation, so there will be light posting here. Please check us out on Twitter and Facebook.

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Bing Goes the Internet?

So, Bing (Microsoft’s new search engine) is holding a contest to see who can come up with the best new “jingle” for the product’s marketing efforts. Do you think the below (disturbing yet funny) video is what they had in mind? Not sure what’s more disturbing: the

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The Empire Strikes Back

Scooped by “ordinary citizens” (once again), and called to task for largely ignoring one of the biggest global news stories of the year — “old media” is fighting back. The big story of the last ten days has been the important role that online tools, such as

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The Essence of the '2010 Web'

Renowned internet fanatic Robert Scoble is on a mission to explore the essence of the 2010 Web. Well, this post is meant to be my two cents. The idea for this post came to me while watching Scoble’s recent interview with Marcus Nelson, CEO of UserVoice —

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A Strong Endorsement of "Building 43"

Our goal is to produce original content for this site — but our overriding mission is to provide content that helps our clients and community utilize online communication tools to produce and share content that helps the bottom lines of their organizations.  As such, we highly endorse

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The Dangers of (Gasp!) Tweeting! Let's Get Real …

The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza this past week seized on some overly-candid comments posted on Twitter by U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) about one of President Obama’s policy initiatives to warn about the dangers of Tweeting. The dangers of Tweeting?  Let’s get real. Twitter is no more

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