In San Jose/San Francisco, 6/19-22

Will be in San Jose and San Francisco this coming Monday through Thursday, for a bunch of work meetings, as well as presenting AirTroductions at the Internet Venture Fair.
Anyone up for coffee or a drink? I’ll try and get a few jumps in, as well, if I can. Contact me if you’re in the [...]



I wish more editors were this blunt.

While some might be taken aback by Pavia Rosati’s bluntness in the following email exchange, I for one, tip my hat and give her total credit – She gets slammed every day by press release after press release. Rather than just ignore it, she comes out and says what she thinks – tells me that [...]



The President Hates Blind People

What do you do when a legally blind reporter asks you a question at a press conference?
Well, I don’t recommend, from a PR perspective, asking if he’s going to ask the question with "shades on."
Granted, Mr. Bush didn’t know the reporter was legally blind – but still – makes for an interesting "cringe moment" for [...]



An announcement sure to please my parents

Apart from fulfilling their dream and telling them "I’m engaged,"(Sorry, not yet…) I would assume that this has to be an announcement that makes mom and dad happy:
Their son is a published author.
Go me.
Now please help me improve my Amazon rank from the 400,000’s into something a little bit better. :)



How Viral Marketing can really, really work

"Oh, we’ll do it with viral marketing, we’ll just use Viral Marketing and it’ll take off and blow sales (hits, links, ads, whatever) out of the water.
But of course, 99.9% of the time, it falls flat. Why? Because marketers who want to use viral tend to forget one very important point: Viral marketing, to work [...]