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Home At Last

I arrived home close to midnight last night, caught up on some email and crashed for the night. Woke up with The Twin Princesses waiting patiently ...

What Do You Think We Do With All That Schwag?

BlogOrlando 2008 — Silly Putty from Judson on Vimeo The Two Alexes having way too much fun with IdeaBlob’s schwag.

At The End Of The Day

It’s been a full day at BlogOrlando. Being the first session has its pluses and minuses. Getting it over first thing means I can sit through ...

Good Morning From BlogOrlando

Jake McGee is getting today’s Blog Orlando sessions underway with a bang. When we have questions, we turn to each other for answers Probably ...

Getting Goofy

DSC_0209, originally uploaded by david parmet. Yesterday was a great kick-off to BlogOrlando. Josh organized a high level think tank, bringing toge...

Blog Orlando Is On

We’re hanging with Mickey. My photos are here.

Do What You Love

Gary Vaynerchuk’s Web2.0 Keynote. Warning - language is definitely NSFW. Speaking of doing what you love, here’s a sneak peek of someth...

Setting Our Sights A Bit Higher

It started in July when Shel Israel asked if “social media (is) becoming a vast wasteland?” There seems to be a growing sense that soci...

The Next Generation of Geekdom Starts Now

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A Room With A View

I was twittering with someone last night about hotels - I mentioned that when I can I always stay at Marriott’s Courtyard chain. There’...

Minor Threat

Sir Ben Kingsley STOMPS into the shoes of Minor Threat’s Ian MacKaye from Mean Magazine on Vimeo. Yes, but is it art?

Key Notes

An action packed line-up of keynoters this afternoon. First off, Fred Wilson gave us a nostalgic tour of Silicon Alley, past and present. I’l...

Always Learning

DSC_0210, originally uploaded by david parmet. Just because I like to know about these things…. I sat in on a session on Rails given by David...

What’s Your Tag?

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A Hard Day To Leave The House

Picture Day

Why PR?

Amidst all the noise from a week ago, Jeremiah Owyang strikes a blow for truth and justice with a smartly (as always) written post “How PR Ca...

iTunes 8

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Ever Wish You Could Hear

what pundits say when the camera goes off? well now you can…. From Daily Kos Crooks and Liars puts this in perspective: Will the media start ...

Education And Social Media

For my upcoming session at BlogOrlando: How is the Internet and Social Media changing education? From self-directed curriculum to opportunities for...

Pete Cashmore Gives Cheesy Gifts

PerkettPR client GiftGirl is launching later this month. As part of our run-up to the launch, we’re asking folks about the worst gift they...

Back From The Beach

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Hell Freezes Over

Pat Buchanan gushes over Obama speech From Crooks and Liars

Very Old Light

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In Place Of Anything Else To Say…

I thought I’d offer you all sixty seconds of the sounds of the beach - Mayflower Beach in Dennis to be exact. Sounds of the Beach

The View From The Back Yard

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He’s On The Beach

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Mornig News

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Seeking The Real

From Neal Stephenson’s In the Beginning Was the Command Line: I was in Disney World recently, specifically the part of it called the Magic Ki...

Hey Mikey

It’s hard to believe but after a 19 year run on WFAN, the Mike and the Mad Dog show is no more. If you are from Long Island and of a certain ...

Blogger Deported From China

Fellow NYer Noel Hidalgo was deported from China for filming a protest held by Students for a Free Tibet, in Tiananmen Square. Coverage here and in...

At The Aldrich

Thomas Hawk complains (rightfully so) that museums in San Francisco have issues with photographers. Here in the North East I’ve never had suc...

The Mighty, Fallen

I’m sitting in a half empty theater watching The Clone Wars with my kids. Put a fork in it folks, it’s dead.

It’s Almost SXSW Time Again

And once again, I’ve got a panel up for selection. Last year we covered what social media is. So this year we’ve decided to cover what ...

The House That Ruth Built

Global brands are funny things. You can go halfway around the world and see some kid in some backwater town wearing a Yankees jersey sipping from a...

Reading girls

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Through Being Cuil

Yesterday’s much-hyped launch of Cuil made me nostalgic for the glory days of the late 1990s. We didn’t need beta testers, in fact we d...

PR People as Car Dealers

I’ve often used the car dealer example as a way of explaining the changes brought about by social media. Do you remember what it was like to ...

My Barcelona

Some Aztec Camera to start your week with.

LIving Off Of The Land

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Crawling From The Wreckage

Yesterday my MacBook Pro slowed to a grinding halt. Even an emergency visit my friendly neighborhood Genius Bar couldn’t bring her back to li...

Speaking of Orlando

Blog Orlando is a no-questions asked must attend for the social media marketing blogochatosphere. Josh never fails to put together a fantastic line...

Speaking of Orlando

Blog Orlando is a no-questions asked must attend for the social media marketing blogochatosphere. Josh never fails to put together a fantastic line...

Joining A Club That Will Have Me As A Member

Last month, Chris Heuer (a.k.a., the hardest working man in social media business) asked me and 40 some odd others to help chart a new course for t...

Joining A Club That Will Have Me As A Member

Last month, Chris Heuer (a.k.a., the hardest working man in social media business) asked me and 40 some odd others to help chart a new course for t...

Sorry Rose

You werern’t his first. Click image to embiggen.

Sorry Rose

You werern’t his first. Click image to embiggen.

PR Peeps - You Think You Have it Rough?

Try being the guy who has to explain why the economy is in the tank… Via Crooks and Liars

PR Peeps - You Think You Have it Rough?

Try being the guy who has to explain why the economy is in the tank… Via Crooks and Liars

Reading girls

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Why I Love Blogging

Here’s your answer: From the good folks at Search Marketing Gurus, recorded at Blog Potomac. My daughter is very pleased with herself being ...

Don’t Ask

David Berkowitz has a list of questions never to ask a social media panel. Do I detect a drinking game?

On The Beach

DSC_0019 - Version 2, originally uploaded by david parmet. A recent day trip to Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, CT.

More Dinosaurs

A friend who DJs in clubs around Fairfield County Connecticut told me this story. A DJ friend of his was working a club in Greenwich, CT. Unbeknown...

Journey’s End

Doctor Who Geek Alert!!

Flying

Yesterday morning, before my 10 hour dash through the wilds of Pennsylvania, I joined Benet Wilson of Aviation Week and Paula Berg of Southwest Air...

Look Who’s Talking

Benet Wilson is talking about blogs in the airline industry. She’s pointed out that American Airlines has a blog - but hasn’t updated i...

Three Rivers

DSC_0205 - Version 2, originally uploaded by david parmet. Good morning from Pittsburgh. I had a nice drive along the Pennsylvania Turnpike yester...

Flying In

Next Tuesday I’m speaking at the Airports Council International - North American Marketing and Communications Forum. I was invited to speak b...

Mr. Blogger Goes to Washington

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Jeremy Pepper Owes Me For This

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R.I.P.

Is Our Children Blogging?

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Civil Disobedience Thwarted

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Wonder Twins

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Words on Paper

Somedays the 80s seem so long ago…

This Land Was Made For You and Me

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Some of you may have already heard from a certain little birdie that I’ve joined PerkettPR. Yes, the rumors are true. I first heard of Perket...

All You Need is Moz

Remember folks, it’s Morrissey’s world, we only just live here.

Rock On

I’ve got a drive up to Boston tonite for a meeting in the AM. So in the meantime, enjoy some music… table.lfmWidgetwordpress_radio_33b4...

An Open Letter From the Animals to Aslan - Enough With the Children

Frankly, we’d be less concerned were it not for our understanding that your true intentions are less to help us and more to help these childr...

Midtown

DSC_0008 - Version 6, originally uploaded by david parmet. The Empire State Building can only be rendered photographically in monochrome.

Still more on Bloggers vs PR flacks

Stowe Boyd wades into the stormy seas between bloggers and PR flacks and as usual, he gets it right: The root cause here is the delusion on the par...

In Olden Days

PR vs The Bloggers part XXVII

Every year the New York City Press Corps lampoon the shenanigans of New York’s political elite at the Inner Circle Dinner. You may remember t...

Is there a doctor in the house?

Permit me one more blog entry about Twitter. Ok? It’s like entering a noisy, crowded stadium and saying, ‘Is there a doctor in the house?’… The ent...

Now With Fewer Pedophiles

Sales Spider, the leading small business social network, announced today that Canadian office solutions company Grand & Toy will leverage the S...

The Evolution of the Pitch

It wasn’t that long ago that we were mailing pitches to journalists. Yes, snail mail. Or, as I did during the summer of 1986 while working fo...

A Brief Musical Interlude

… while I finish the next post.

Brotherly Love

DSC_0108 - Version 2, originally uploaded by david parmet. The Boy Genius and I took a quick drive down to Philly last week to see the Star Wars e...

Where Nobody Knows Kara Swisher’s Name

I wonder if I gathered 100 of my neighbors… all of whom (are) quite intelligent, armed with all kinds of the latest devices (many, many peopl...

Does Anyone Even Care Anymore?

about “gaming” Techmeme?

Missing the Forest for the Trees Part XXVII

Fellow New Communications Forum attendee Phil Gomes points out what he sees as the biggest challenge facing our industry right now. As Phil sees it...

They even let her operate the cable car

DSC_0071 (1) - Version 2, originally uploaded by david parmet. The Princess enjoyed her first ever tour of San Francisco today, with a trip on the...

A Bunch of Twits

To twit or not to twit, or more precisely, Twitter, what is it good for? At sessions like the one I led on Tuesday, the question always comes up. Y...

A Man and His Owl

DSC_0013 - Version 2, originally uploaded by david parmet. as in “Don’t mess with a man and his owl…”

The price of gas in Cali

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Rocky

DSC_0058 (1) - Version 2, originally uploaded by david parmet. This morning The Princess and I went to the beach. We headed out to Bodega Bay, bet...

Word of Mouth

DSC_0040, originally uploaded by david parmet. After my session this morning, the Princess and I drove down to Sonoma for some wine tasting. Well ...

Morning Session

We’re here at the New Communications Forum, learning stuff… Update: Yep, this was a demo. Great session this morning. We are truly movi...

Whine Country

Twin Princess Number Two and yours truly are in the heart of California’s wine country. She’s sleeping, I’m wired on Diet Coke an...

The lesson for the day…

Sometimes I wonder if we’ve lost our collective senses of perspective, if not our minds. Here in the Bedford Central School District (motto &...

Ben Stein is an ignorant fool

from RichardDawkins.net

Kids today…

Working off of a post from Brian LItvak, who argues that everything he needs to know about the Internet, he learned in college, Nate Westheimer ask...

New Communications Forum

It’s almost time for the annual New Communications Forum, this year in Santa Rosa, California. This has become the conference to attend if yo...

Media Outreach 2.0

It sill happens that now and then I have a client that needs me to do some outreach to *gasp* traditional media outlets. So how do we do this in th...

Some folks are getting this right

When I saw the email from MyRagan.com asking me what I would do if China were my client, I admit I thought here we go again. Once more on the downw...

Just a tiny part of my morning

Conflict of interest much?

From Talking Points Memo: The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the strategist, Mark Penn, met Monday with Colombia’s ambassador to th...

In the Bullseye

This afternoon I joined Media Bullseye’s Roundtable on PR and related issues. I argued, quite forcefully, that the Chinese crackdown in Tibet...

Do it for the love of doing it

DSC_0141, originally uploaded by david parmet. Watching Gary Vaynerchuk do his “for the love” rap is always one part inspiring and one...

Yet another reason for people to think PR people are scum

From MediaBistro’s PRNewser: If your clients are involved with the Beijing games, they’ll probably need your counsel now more than ever...

PR Two Point Oh

Brian Solis opines thusly: Somewhere along the way, PR lost it’s way and created a new “sub” standard for what should have been one of the most res...

Maku puppet

via Spin

The stars

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Catch that train

Jeremy Pepper, in his own inimitable way, calls out PR agencies for paying lip service to the idea of community. I still laugh at some of the peopl...

Next stop… Santa Rosa

Next on the agenda is the New Communications Forum in Santa Rosa, CA, April 22-25. I’ll be running a workshop “Beyond Blogging” o...

Next stop… Santa Rosa

Next on the agenda is the New Communications Forum in Santa Rosa, CA, April 22-25. I’ll be running a workshop “Beyond Blogging” o...

More good vibes

Forgive me for tooting my own horn here but I’ve never received as much good wuffie for a panel or speaking gig as I have for the panel I mod...

Tailor made

Thomas Mahon, man about town.

The sky is falling

JP Morgan spent less to acquire Bear Sterns than the New York Yankees did to secure Alex Rodriguez. Kind of puts things in perspective, don’t...

Death by tray it shall be

Instead of working, I’m watching every Eddie Izzard bit I can find on YouTube.

Tell me now how do I feel…

Blue Monday by New Order released 25 years ago today. Damn. I. Feel. Old. via Laughing Squid

Worse sales staff in the world

Can anyone tell me why Radio Shack still exists? Unless you need a wire stripper or soldering kit, there’s no reason in the world to wander u...

Worse sales staff in the world

Can anyone tell me why Radio Shack still exists? Unless you need a wire stripper or soldering kit, there’s no reason in the world to wander u...

It’s a wrap

Another SXSW has come and gone. If you weren’t here, you might have the impression that SXSW was all a pack of rabid twitters, taking down ev...

World’s dirtiest screen

Loren Feldman and I having some fun at the expense of Hugh’s Macbook.

Ranting

A brief conversation with Steve Hall of AdRants.com.

Don’t Pitch Me Bro

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Momma Vaynerchuk’s boys

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The Wave

here it is…

Awesomeness

Just a quick post to catch up before the evening’s activities. The panel, from all the feedback I’ve received, was a hit. It’s re...

Panel Day

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People power logos

Cathy Brooks explains the Seesmic Racoon. Kind of noisy so play loud.

Hit me one more time…

We’re rocking in the BlogHaus at SXSW. Ted Shelton of The Conversation Group loaned me a Flip and set me lose. Results will be linked to as s...

Everyone’s a hero

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Spring Break for Geeks

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Heading to Texas

There are a ton of great new and cool tools to play with, and all of them are using SXSW to show off. From BricaBox, there’s SXSWhere for all...

So many ideas, so little time

Well I just flew in from Miami and boy are my arms tired. Actually, the trip left me exhausted with non-stop geekdom from Thursday’s BarCamp ...

The show must go on

Pictures from FOWA Miami O8 are here and here.

It’s all about the children

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Build a dot com in 24 days

Andy Singleton of client Assembla.com is demoing how to build a full fledged web company in 24 days. First step - find a name and register it. Andy...

BarCamp Miami has begun

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He may be a right wing religious nut job

But he sure knows how to laugh at himself.

Moon over Stamford

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Clinton is from PR, Obama is from Social Media

OK, a rather poor play on pop psychology. But I’ve been thinking about the role of traditional marketing vs social media in the current campa...

the sporting life

My buddy from my IBM days, Rick Bause, has put back on his sportswriter hat and started the Sportslifer Blog. It’s about sports, and life and...

Feeling safer?

Everything in its place and a place for everything

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Come home to New York

Come home ex Yahoo!ies … all is forgiven. Charlie is even offering employment.

Miami Beach Photowalk

Here’s my attempt to actually organize something… If you are coming to BarCamp Miami / Future of Web Apps, join me on a photowalk throu...