Good morning, all. Here’s a slightly longer What’s Hot on HARO, for February 19th, 2009. For those who need it from the video, Meagan’s email is meagan shankman com. Happy Thursday, everybody. Find more videos like this on PROpenMic

First things first: Today’s HARO “How to Pitch Business Reporters” will be rescheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, February 19th, at 2pm (14:00) EST. Now then: To my esteemed panelists, and to all the audience members listening in: I’m truly sorry. While the problem was caused by technical issues, the fact is, I organized the call, I promoted it, my panel convened at my request, and the audience paid for it on my recommendation. As such, I accept full responsibility for today’s SNAFU, regardless of what caused it. We don’t know exactly what happened. What I do know is that I’ve used Conference Call University for our previous two calls, without any problems at all. We’ve never had so much as a [...]

Some quick thoughts, Twitter-style. 1) If you don’t want your information owned, by Facebook or anyone else, DON’T FREAKING PUT IT ON THE INTERNETS. 2) You get a hot photo taken of you. You put it up on the Internet. Good luck “controlling your brand” once it’s online. If it’s really hot, inmates are using it as prison currency before the end of the evening. You think you have ANY semblance of privacy once you post something? You’re dreaming. It ain’t just Facebook. They just happened to put it into print. 3) 99.99999% of Facebook users ARE NOT POSTING ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY INTERESTING ENOUGH FOR FACEBOOK TO CARE ABOUT, much less use in an ad or commercial. 4) Privacy died [...]

Good morning! Welcome to What’s Hot on HARO, this Wednesday, February 18, 2009. This HARO is thanks to my mom and dad, who decided that I talk way too fast. So I slowed down. And by slowing down, I got the date wrong in the video. Thanks, mom and dad. Don’t forget the conference call on How to Pitch a Reporter! you can still register for the five spots left here. Anyhow – The stat I referenced from the Pew Institute can be found here: In December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used Twitter or “another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others,” up from 9% just a month earlier. Not surprisingly, [...]

What’s hot on HARO for Tuesday, February 17th, 2009. Thanks to Nick Nanton at Celebrity Sites again for this sponsorship. Don’t forget – the HARO How to Pitch a Reporter call is tomorrow! Sign up here! Find more videos like this on PROpenMic