Several weeks ago, on August 20  to be exact, I wrote in my blog about a Maine girl named Hayley Desjardins who has a rare blood disease. A bone marrow drive and fundraiser was organized at Northern Outdoors Adventure Resort in The Forks, which used to be one of my beloved PR clients. I am so pleased that everyone was able to pull together to help Hayley in her fight against this horrid disease. Continue Reading »

I was interested to read this article from Brian Pittman of Bulldog Reporter about the intersection of PR and Social Media. I met Brian at a PR conference hosted by Bulldog in San Francisco a couple years ago. Bulldog is a good organization with lots of stimulating conferences and newsletters. Thanks Brian, for this interview with fastcompany.com and thoughts on building relationships with media through social media networking. Continue Reading »

One of the interesting things I learned from Maine’s own Rich Brooks at the workshop I attended on Monday night was how ping.fm enables you to update your status on multiple sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Myspace simultaneously.  Rich is currently at a bloggers’ convention in Las Vegas and his ‘tweets’ on Twitter have been an entertaining journal of his travel adventures. (Tweets are the updates you place on Twitter.) Continue Reading »

This past Monday night, I attended a meeting of one of TechMaine’s usergroups at their offices in Westbrook, Maine. “The Rich Brooks” of Flyte New Media was talking about social media. My ‘Aha’ moment came when he talked about how social media isn’t necessarily the best means of driving large amounts of traffic, but sometimes it drives just the traffic that you want. He said that sometimes you might only get five people reading your post on Twitter, or reading your blog, or whatever flavor of social media you’re using, but if those are the five people you are targeting, then you’ve potentially achieved your marketing goal. Continue Reading »

Remember that Pete Seeger song from the 70’s?  “Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing. I wanna know, where have all the flowers gone, long time ago-oh-oh.”  (I used to play my guitar and sing that song in my bedroom which had a purple shag carpet and purple walls.)

I’m not singing that song today. I’m singing the one about ‘Where have all the comments gone?”  My singing has the effect of driving people away, and now I am afraid that my blog is, too! Continue Reading »