Five Guaranteed Ways to Get Your Story Placed

Running HARO for the past three years, I’ve seen, hands down, the best ways to get your story placed, front page, EVERY TIME.
Assuming you want ALL THAT COVERAGE, as your boss has told you that you do, these are, without question, the top five ways to get it. Make sure you follow EVERY single rule [...]



How to avoid being “Checked In” by your friends on Facebook’s Places

Hey gang – A brief video tutorial on how to manage your privacy settings on Facebook so no one else has the power to “check you in” to places on Facebook. Hope it’s useful. Feel free to share.

How to avoid being “Checked in” by your friends on Facebook’s Places from Peter Shankman on Vimeo.



Dive Loops

So over the weekend I went skydiving. Gorgeous weekend – Was impossible not to get some air time.
I’m going to tell you a story, and relate our industry to skydiving. And I apologize, because I promised myself, after my first year of skydiving, that I’d never do that again. See, most skydivers, when they start [...]



Is it time to say goodbye to Free Wi-Fi?

I remember back in 2002 – I walked into a Starbucks, because I’d heard it was just wired for Wi-Fi – One of the first in the country to get it. It was on 23rd and Park, I believe – I sat down, turned on my PC (Yes, I had an evil PC at the [...]



Looking at the World Through T3 Colored Glasses

In 1995 when I was helping to found the AOL Newsroom, I coined a phrase:
Stop looking at the world through T3 colored glasses.
A T3 line was one of the fastest pipes to transmit data at the time, and AOL being AOL, we sat right on top of about 100 of them. You could follow our [...]