21 Jul
2009

Twittergate: Journalism Ethics and the blogosphere

By: Geek Giant Category:General business concepts, Industry commentary, PR Tips, Ramblings, UncategorizedTag: , , , , :

I would like to welcome TechCrunch to the world of actual journalism. Find a story, verify info, interview sources, write story, fact check, publish, repeat. Here’s the quick background: TechCrunch obtained multiple documents from an alleged hacker who had broken into Twitter employee’s email accounts, Google Documents (There’s a reason it’s not compliant, but that’s […]

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25 Jun
2009

The Twitter Relations Model

By: Geek Giant Category:General business concepts, PRTag: , , , , :4 Comments on The Twitter Relations Model

As public relations continues its amoeba-like shift around social media, one of the things I’m starting to see is the practice of Twitter relations. Twitter relations is similar to blogger relations, but eliminates the threshold of authority that comes with a blog. Brands, PR companies and marketing teams are beginning to provide limited access to […]

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10 Oct
2008

The absurdity of an “Enterprise Twitter”

By: The Geek Giant Category:General business concepts, PR, RamblingsTag: , , , :

Micro-sharing within a large enterprise. The concept mystifies me. If I were in charge of running a large corporation, or even a division within one, I would be so adamantly against the use of company funds, time and resources to develop something like was talked about recently on ReadWriteWeb. The author (Laura Fitton, who is […]

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18 Jun
2008

Been a while…

By: The Geek Giant Category:RamblingsTag: , , :

Back into the flow of things. Here’s what I’ve noticed lately. What’s changed? Not a whole lot. Innovation appears to be on a temporary hiatus. Yahoo is trying its best to be the belle of the ball, but is ending up only as the last-call cougar. I don’t care if it’s Googlehoo, Microhoo, Yahoogle or […]

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