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Nathan "PRCog" Burgess

Guys…we’re scarce, use it to your advantage

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Two women touching a businessmanOk, so to address this first…maybe there is something to the whole women’s intuition thing…(touché Kate).

As many of you know, earlier this week my colleague and PRBC founding blogger Kate Ottavio posted a great article addressing the male:female ratio in our industry, noting it’s a great chance to meet a girl.

While undoubtedly true (have you seen the Male:Female ratio of the PRBC family and of our get togethers (and yes @dannybrown — it is sheer coincidence)) there is a definite chance to use this to our advantage gents. Continue reading →

Nathan "PRCog" Burgess

NYC-Area Reminder: Tweetup Tomorrow

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Just a reminder for the NYC-area folks — Tweetup tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. with PR Pro and Tweeter Rachel A. Kay, who happens to be in town visiting from San Diego.  Around half the PRBC will be in attendance and loads of others!  It promises to be a great evening.  Full details including location (Midtown) and to RSVP here (please do RSVP so can warn inform the venue and you get the E-mail updates).

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Nathan "PRCog" Burgess, Uncategorized

Another Milestone

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At symbolSee that post down there, yeah, scroll down, that one — the one by Jess Greco announcing our new ‘Pitch Yourself’ program, that’s PRBC’s 100th post!  I know, it snuck up on us too.  (Anyone wishing to send gifts of spirits or other adult beverages, drop me  a note — we’ve got diverse tastes, whatever it is someone will like it).  In lieu of having a party for ourselves, we’re giving you, our wonderful readers, who we love to (hopefully) entertain, inform, and opine to on a weekdaily basis a gift — more of us! Continue reading →

Nathan "PRCog" Burgess

Seriously? Goog v. Bing search Twitter

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Twin brother and sister (10-12) retrieving cuddly toy from under bed, ground view Disclaimer – I’m a Google Harlot.  With minor exception, if Google offers it, I use it.  Yup, I’m on Wave (along with most of PRBC and BTW,  if anyone’s got a few extra invites, we’ve still got some holes to fill), I used Google Docs back before it was Docs (Writely was acquired by Google and then morphed into Docs), Maps, Earth, pretty much everything.  I usually prefer Google search to Twitter search for finding old tweets – a username or two, a keyword, isolate the search to twitter.com and frequently I can dig out old tweets with minimal difficulty.

So Microsoft’s Beta launch of the Bing Twitter search was a disappointment for me.  I had been unimpressed with any of Microsoft’s search engines (The original Microsoft search/MSN search, Live, Bing, meh….). So I had little hope.  The one big selling point a proper Twitter search would give it a longer memory. Continue reading →

Nathan "PRCog" Burgess

Balloon Family Attorney: Dizzy or Well-spun?

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HandcuffsRecent news stories, most notably those in The New York Times and on NBC’s Today Show, have taken particular note of the comments of David Lane, the attorney representing Richard Heene (Balloon Dad) regarding the upcoming, perhaps inevitable, arrest of Mr. Heene and potentially his wife (who is being represented by a different attorney).

Mr. Lane’s comments are best summarized by one of his talking points (because that’s what it is, let’s not kid ourselves) in his interview with the Today Show — “Do not do the perp walk for media consumption and arrest these people in full view of their children. That’s child abuse.” Continue reading →

Nathan "PRCog" Burgess

PR Win! Save by CoffeeCup

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All opinions (and I mean all) herein are my own and not the official opinion of PRBC or any of the other writers.

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There’s a software company I’m a big fan of — CoffeeCup [and no FTC, they aren’t compensating me in any way].  Most of the software they create is for website development – ftp programs, html coding, flash animation, etc.  The software’s always very user-friendly, they provide good support, have an active message board for customers, provide free updates, and give away a decent amount of free software so you can get a flavor of what they produce.

It’s a feel-good company.  The company name “came from the domain name of the coffee house where we got our start. (Yes, we owned a real coffee house first.) Domains cost $100 a year back then, and coffeecup.com was already paid for, so why invent a new name?”  They claim to run on “an unlimited supply of Red Bull, Mexican food, Jelly Bellies, and passion for our users.”   Continue reading →

Nathan "PRCog" Burgess

Happy 1 Month-i-launch-day

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Yes, I know it’s not a real word, but anniversary can only carry you so far since the ‘ann-‘ root refers to an annual event and it’s only been a month, but we’re pretty happy with ourselves around here at PRBC HQ (it’s a place on the internet at the intersection of Gmail, GChat, Google Docs, Skype, WordPress, SMS msgs and iPhones (it’s somewhere near the Hudson River just below 14th Street — ok, not really) a very funny place with soft walls). Continue reading →

Nathan "PRCog" Burgess, Uncategorized

Boomerang Research or Can They Really Be This Lazy?

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(CC) photo credit: sparkle_lavalamp // flickr

Recently a question popped up among one of our “journalists-seeking-experts”  services asking a ridiculously simple question.  I’m not going into specifics, like which service it came from, who asked it, or what it was — this hack hasn’t earned a call out, I believe them to be a victim rather than an instigator.

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