July 29th, 2010
When the Internet exploded onto the scene in 1996, communication as we knew it changed forever. Suddenly we could send Ethernet greetings and thank you notes to almost anyone with a few keystrokes; forsaking the neatly hand-written note that Emily Post had espoused since 1922. When the Internet went mainstream it also became a convenient bully pulpit to broadcast our opinions. And we let them rip with abandon. Why not? We could now hide behind email aliases and pseudonyms to unleash our alter egos.
So where does The Emily Post Institute weigh in on etiquette for the Web or netiquette? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Anna Post, Business Wire, Emily Post, Etiquette in the Digital Age
Posted in Conferences & Webinars, Netiquette
Author:Julia Glenister | No Comments »
June 25th, 2010
Connecting Information in Context
Introducing a Guest Blog post by JAGWIRE Group’s new client, Meshstro, a PARC-incubated company that is developing contextual software solutions to deliver the first natural language and content recognition technologies for email.
Chris Holmes discusses the current limitations of email search, and reveals how Meshstro’s new beta product takes an innovative approach to searching for, and discovering, the emails and documents in your inbox. JAG
Let’s face it: email is ripe for innovation.
We rely on folders and keyword searches to sift through thousands of emails to locate buried messages and documents… but the problem goes beyond the inbox.
Today’s business processes are more dynamic, more human-centric, ad hoc, unscripted, and loosely orchestrated – they represent the framework for our interactions with team members, business partners, and customers. The information that fuels these interactions is digital: emails, documents, web site links, database records, IMs, tweets, and so on.
Keeping track of all this information in the context of a person, a partner or customer, or a particular activity is a TIME CONSUMING, MANUAL, CUMBERSOME process. And it’s only getting tougher.
Meshstro - Information at your Fingertips
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Posted in Email and Information Management, Search, Social Media
Author:Chris Holmes Meshstro | No Comments »
May 25th, 2010
Moderator Owen Thomas /VentureBeat and Panelists Paul Martino/Aggregate Knowledge; Christine Herron/First Round Capital; Corey Reese/Trumpet Technologies; Tim Chang /Norwest Venture Partners.
Is the tech industry headed for bubble number two? That was the burning question for those who gathered at the Automattic Lounge on Pier 38 in San Francisco last Thursday. The answer appears to be no — or at least there are no signs of it yet –according to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs brought together by the law firm Dorsey & Whitney who sponsored the event “Are We All Blowing Another Bubble?” Those of us in the audience who were in tech PR and marketing during the last dot-com boom, breathed an audible sigh of relief.
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Posted in Conferences & Webinars, Monetizing IT, News
Author:Julia Glenister | No Comments »
May 20th, 2010
Is that the faint tinkle of a death knell I’m hearing for Facebook among its once rabidly loyal small business owners? Probably not! It’s more likely just the echo of the reverberating collective screams heard on Twitter and Facebook and around the blogosphere since yesterday afternoon when word started to trickle out that Facebook had announced via its Developers Forum that Facebook Pages (formerly Fan Pages) could no longer have landing tabs unless they had at least 10,000 fans (in the new lingo fans are “likers”) or unless they advertised on Facebook. (See Jonathan Mast’s blog posting for more background). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Denise Wakeman, Facebook, Jonathan Mast, Mari Smith, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Media Examiner, TheBlogSquad
Posted in News, Social Media
Author:Julia Glenister | 2 Comments »
April 12th, 2010
It could turn into The Wild West out there again with URL land grabs — this time for .tv domain name extensions (rather than .com domain names). Need I remind you of the pre-Dot-com boom and URLs selling for millions of dollars?
With my memories still raw from having missed that .com domain name opportunity to make my fortune in the mid-1990s, JAGWIRE Group quickly took Social Media Guru Denise Wakeman’s advice over the weekend and bought a shiny new URL (jagwiregroup.tv) after listening to SocialMediaExaminer’s Webinar “8 Hot Social Media Marketing Tips.” One of Denise’s “hot” tips during the Webinar had been to grab a .tv domain for your name, site or company and redirect it to your YouTube channel because video is becoming “so powerful.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Denise Wakeman, DN Journal, eNom, Gizmodo, GoDaddy.com, JAGWIRE Group, Moniker.com, SocialMediaExaminer, Tuvalu, VeriSign, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Small Business
Posted in Marketing, Social Media
Author:Julia Glenister | 3 Comments »
March 30th, 2010
I’ve often thought about how social media is blurring the lines between public relations and customer service. Everyone with a laptop or online device now has a powerful publishing platform at their fingertips. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Kimpton Hotels, McDonald's, PRWeek, Quicken Loans, Social Media, Waggener Edstrom's WE Studio D's
Posted in Conferences & Webinars, Most Popular, News, Public Relations, Social Media
Author:Julia Glenister | No Comments »
March 26th, 2010
An early screening of the first documentary film about the founders of Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry mesmerized an audience of investment bankers and VCs, lawyers, entrepreneurs, technologists and others when it was unveiled by the Western Association of Venture Capitalists as a work-in-progress at a reception last night at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Apple, Arthur Rock, Atari, Bill Bowes, Bill Draper, Bill Edwards, Cisco, Dick Kramlich, Don Valentine, Dr. Herbert Boyer, Fairchild Semiconductor, Foundation Capital, Geller Goldfine Productions, Genentech, Gordon Moore, Intel, Jim Gaither, Jimmy Treybig, John Morgridge, LSI Logic, Mike Markkula, Molly Davis, More Than Money, Nolan Bushnell, Paul Holland, Pitch Johnson, Rainmaker Communications, Reid Dennis, Robert Campbell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Tandem Computers, Tom Perkins, Venture capital, Wilif Corrigan
Posted in Conferences & Webinars, Monetizing IT, Most Popular, News
Author:Julia Glenister | No Comments »
March 13th, 2010
Bloomberg News turned the tables on me today. I just returned from a fascinating briefing given by the San Francisco Bureau Chief, and top tech editors/reporters at Bloomberg’s swanky waterfront San Francisco bureau and I had to agree to keep everything off-the-record about what was said about Bloomberg’s inner workings and plans.
How many times have I asked that of reporters? Irony of ironies, I recently blogged about how the term “off-the-record” is open to interpretation Okay, So You’ll Only Talk Off the Record.
So I’m hogtied, but I will say this, I am very impressed by what the reporters do day in and day out at Bloomberg News.
Next time a Bloomberg reporter wakes me up at 4:00 AM (or worse, reports on the national wire that I was unavailable for comment) I may just be a little more understanding … or maybe not.
Tags: Off the Record
Posted in News
Author:Julia Glenister | 1 Comment »
When the Internet exploded onto the scene in 1996, communication as we knew it changed forever. Suddenly we could send Ethernet greetings and thank you notes to almost anyone with a few keystrokes; forsaking the neatly hand-written note that Emily Post had espoused since 1922. When the Internet went mainstream it also became a convenient bully pulpit to broadcast our opinions. And we let them rip with abandon. Why not? We could now hide behind email aliases and pseudonyms to unleash our alter egos.
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