On the First Day of Social Christmas, my followers gave to me, a Klout score of Eighty-Three. On the Second Day of Social Christmas, my followers gave to me, two Macbook Airs, and a Klout Score of Eighty-Three. On the Third of Social Christmas, my followers gave to me, three HARO emails, two Macbook Airs, and a Klout Score of Eighty-Three. On the Fourth Day of Social Christmas, my followers gave to me, four Pete Cashmore Tweets (sigh), three HARO emails, two Macbook Airs, and a Klout Score of Eighty-Three. On the Fifth Day of Social Christmas, my followers gave to me, FIVE… ANGRY… BIRDS!! Four Pete Cashmore Tweets (sigh), three HARO emails, two Macbook Airs, and a Klout Score [...]

Remember my post back in August about how it’s time to say goodbye to free WI-Fi in coffeehouses, in airports, etc? I have never been more sure of something in my life – Today, I’ll prove it. I’m on the 6:20am Amtrak from NYC to Boston right now. For a brief moment, I switched off my Sprint EVO 4G, and am using Amtrak’s free WiFi to prove a point. I also installed a little Add-on to Firefox (I usually use Chrome, I switched to Firefox for this experiment,) called Firesheep. If you haven’t heard of Firesheep, prepare to be really, really frightened. I’m not a true tech geek, so please forgive me if I don’t totally speak Geek. Essentially, FireSheep [...]

So I eat at Pita Grill a lot. I love their Steak and Rice Bowl. Their Hummus is quite good, and because it’s Hummus, I’m apt to forget how fattening it is, because it sounds like it’s good for me. However, from an email marketing perspective, they need to go back to the kitchen. I got this in my email today, with the subject line of “Happy Earth Day!”

Please link to this, post this around, dump it onto Twitter, etc. The more people who watch the better HARO works for everyone. Blue skies! How to Answer a HARO Journalist Query from Peter Shankman on Vimeo.

I’m speaking at a conference in a few months – keynoting it, in fact. I’m obviously not going to mention which one, it could be any of the countless conferences at which I’m speaking over the next six months. But the person running this conference has sent me (and my assistant) no less than five emails a piece asking me to blog, tweet, or otherwise do free PR for their conference. Knowing that I have over 50,000 followers, this conference organizer suspected that getting me to tweet about my attending would be an easy way for her to get free PR. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen. I’ve built my Twitter following on what I preach in my speeches: Honesty, transparency, brevity, relevance, [...]