PR top 5 June 22

It’s been a busy week, but I’ve managed to check out most of my fave blogs this week.  Here are the posts Iiked the best.
1. On Pro Blogger, Darren Rowse explains why PR people are starting to contact bloggers in droves and how to handle them in Understanding PR people for fun and profit. Good [...]

May’s fave five

Each month, I write up a round up of the previous month’s most popular posts on Strive Notes.  Interestingly, this month only one of the fave five relates to PR…the rest are tech stories.  Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm.  Perhaps we’re not engaging in the PR conversation the way we should be?  I’ll think [...]

LinkedIn, you’ve come a long way

Last week my daughter pinged me on Facebook. ‘Check out LinkedIn, a kind of Facebook for business enthusiasts,’ she said.

It made me smile that she’s pegged me as a ‘business enthusiast’, but she had reminded me about the very first online social network I’d joined back in 2006. Back then I’d joined up and quickly [...]

February 7th: Jo’s PR top five

I’ve been off jet setting again. This time however, I ditched the summer sun and headed for a new experience on the snowy slopes. Amazingly, I returned in one piece.
1. The first thing I know a lot of people have been following, whether it be consciously or not, is the U.S. presidential election. The largest [...]

LinkedIn to go public?

ZDnet UK is reporting that LinkedIn, the social networking site for business people, has secured a ton of VC financing (£12.8m) in what may be its first step toward going public. 
The story says LinkedIn will use the dosh for product development and to help market the network internationally.
This has got to be a good initiative. [...]

September 22nd: this week’s top 5

This week I posted a record number of items to del.icio.us. There is just so much good original content and informative debate going on.  It was hard to choose my favourites. But here they are in no particular order.  
 1.  Steve Rubel has an interesting post about how Wikipedia articles on the top US advertisers are among the most highly ranked pages in [...]

LinkedIn update

I joined LindkedIn, the online social network about a month ago.  Since then, I’ve seen Stuart Bruce and Teresa Valdez Klein both writing about it on their blogs. So I thought I’d write an update on how my Linkedin experience has been so far. 
I joined on 29 July 2006 and have sent invites to about [...]

Getting LinkedIn

A friend in the US sent me an invite to join LinkedIn this week, and I decided to go for it.  It’s an online network of 6.5 million professionals around the world representing 130 industries…a MySpace for grownups if you like. 
The idea is that people hook up online to build networks for business referrals, job [...]