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Comment on Vertical Social Networking takes off by worldofsearch

worldofsearch — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:09:04 +0000

I think you hit the nail on the head when you suggested people have a home network, I have various accounts with various networks but only check Facebook regularly. that is mostly because the others dont change regularly enough to bother. The niche networks would do well to recognise this and build themselves a Facebook app to make the most of it. That way I could have my linkedin updates on my Facebook page and they would undoubtedly get more visits from me. They dont have to consider themselves as competing with the mass social networks and can utilise their popularity for their own needs.

Comment on Don’t Ask the PM about Social Media by Jon Worth

Jon Worth — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:56:57 +0000

[...] such a project than it is for them to actually relate to and use the thing itself. Just look at the problems Gordon Brown has with Youtube - it’s just not a natural part of the psyche for most [...]

Comment on Don’t Ask the PM about Social Media by Jon Worth

Jon Worth — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:54:03 +0000

Very much agree with this… Politicians have started to understand that something more than a website with pages of information on it is necessary, but getting them to do more is a hard task. Especially on the Labour side no one has quite forgotten the Mandelson-inspired 1997 Labour message, the grid, etc. - social media is a lot more scary as it’s less controllable.

Comment on Don’t Ask the PM about Social Media by Yeelim

Yeelim — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:49:31 +0000

Enjoyed the post and some food for thought. I can sympathise with those who said engaging in social media is a step in the right direction, since the entire sphere needs advocates / adopters to reach tipping point and thus adopted by more.

However, the more we see projects executed badly the more we learn how to and how not to do it. The social media space is still in its infancy (when it comes to corporates) and the rules are not fully defined yet. Mistakes will be made and execution will become better.

Comment on Don’t Ask the PM about Social Media by alex

alex — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:13:01 +0000

Tasmania has a Generation X politician according to the post here

David Bartlett, 40 years old and only 4 years in politics. Hiw new deputy, Lara Giddings, is 36. Both represent the first burst of Generation X political leadership in Australia.

Bartlett apparently has had a successful career in IT and intellectual property before entering politics. He summed up his vision for the State that he will now be leading, describing the future he wanted to create for citizens as “clever, kind and connected”.

http://www.theconnectedrepublic.org/blog/?p=91

Comment on CIPR Event: Social Media - The Assassin or Saviour of Traditional Media? by Two things | PRBLOGGER.COM - PR blog

Two things | PRBLOGGER.COM - PR blog — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:17:29 +0000

[...] to Daljit Bhurji for putting it together. Tickets are all sold from what I gather by Daljit. Should be [...]

Comment on PR 2.0 - Over 50% Can’t Deliver by Feedback from the online PR survey results | PRBLOGGER.COM - PR blog

Feedback from the online PR survey results | PRBLOGGER.COM - PR blog — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:25:36 +0000

[...] Richard Bailey, Heather Yaxley, Andrew B. Smith, the guys from Spannerworks, Sherrilynne Starkey, Daljit Bhurji, Katy Howell and even webitpr’s very own Giles Shorthouse covered it. And, as mentioned, [...]

Comment on Don’t Ask the PM about Social Media by Paul Campy

Paul Campy — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:10:49 +0000

I think you do right in your harder line view; social/new media doesn’t benefit from token gestures, of treating it as an new form-old style broadcast medium.

I wonder whether we’re seeing another stage in political communications; just as Macmillan struggled with TV even those in the US Presidential race have struggled with YouTube debates and the like (though McCain has been diligently courting the blogosphere for a couple of years).

Am still enjoying the grass roots work of groups such as “Why Tuesday?” and the like; far preferable to the tokenism (and politically opportunistic) examples such as this from poor Mr Brown.

Comment on Don’t Ask the PM about Social Media by Don’t Ask the PM about Social Media | Politics in America

Don’t Ask the PM about Social Media | Politics in America — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:33:43 +0000

[...] Writes Like She Talks by Jill Miller Zimon wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt So I was asked by PR Week on Monday for my views on Gordon Brown’s Ask the PM initiative on YouTube. This was the latest foray into the online world by Downing Street, following its recent embrace of Twitter. My assessment that Ask the PM “smacks of gimmickry and desperation” led the article and there was a clear consensus from other industry commentators, that this project was a typical case of ‘too little, too late’. I had a couple of interesting conversations on Friday in response to the [...]

Comment on Some New PR Blogs by Tom Malcolm

Tom Malcolm — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:30:17 +0000

Daljit,

thanks so much for welcoming me into the highly populted world of the Tech PR blog…with those kind of flattering shots…I’m sure everyone will be checking out the blog just to get a closer peak at the adonis who writes it!