Digital Marketing And Social Media PR – The Future Buzz

Some of you may have noticed that my blog has been experiencing minor downtime over the past few days. The good news is everything seems to be fixed now, and the reason I was able to get things up and running again quickly was due to having backup copies of everything.

Simplify your message and you increase the chances it will be remembered (vastly improving the changes it will actually get shared). Say too much and people will not only leave confused, they may never return.

Valeria Maltoni recently shared her thinking on why PR is misunderstood and misapplied. Her rationale makes sense and overall I agree with her thoughts. After the why, she lists a brief section on areas of opportunity. The areas she lists are (summarized):

Unnecessary quotation marks are everywhere. The other week while traveling, I couldn’t help but notice the following sign and had to snap a shot to highlight the absurdity of it:

My friend Eric Friedman recently shared a really great story that’s worth repeating. It’s about his experience getting hired by renowned New York VC firm Union Square Ventures (he’s since moved on to be Director of Client Services at Foursquare):

You, the readers here, are brilliant. You inspire me and keep me thinking. And while I haven’t responded to all of the ~3,000 comments left here over the years, I do read all of them. Which is why today’s post isn’t my thoughts – it’s yours. Following are 10 smart, thought-provoking comments from this community I pulled out of recent threads for your Friday inspiration: