Updates: New site theme, upcoming posts
I hope you like the new site. The original theme was too difficult to look at, plus it was buggy. Fortunately Wordpress themes are aplenty, so it was easy to plug in a new look with just a few clicks.
Which brings me too… upcoming posts. I’ve been on this kick about new media and public relations for about four years now. My Internet experience is about as old as the technology itself—or at least its popular use. I got my first email account, which is still alive and cluttered with thousands of spam emails, in 1990. Online shenanigans commenced.
More recently, my Myspace page was the result of friends inviting me to the then predominantly youth-oriented site in 2004.
Various online capacities have developed since, and yet many of my public relations colleagues are still in the dark about incorporating new media into PR. I attended a seminar recently touting the benefits of social media for public relations purposes, and aside from myself and one other person, the rest of the audience seemed to be gaining a wealth of new information, which is a good thing and is also telling of how much many folks are still behind the curve, especially those in the business of promoting themselves or their organizations.
So coming up here are going to be posts outlining basic uses of new media for both personal productivity and for public relations practitioners. As a relative newcomer to the complexities and details of Web 2.0, I have come to find that incorporating new media into one’s life is really not that hard.
What I hope to present is an ongoing series of quick and dirty tips for using things like RSS readers, email technologies and blogs, as well as perspectives of my own experiences using these various tools. The goal: to hopefully help others enhance their public relations practices by using the Internet more efficiently. (More advanced topics are best left to others more experienced with these technologies.)
Also coming next: I interviewed Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton, yesterday and anticipate posting a three-part Q&A with him over the coming weeks. Our discussion was about crisis management in the age of new media.
I also hope to put up a page of my more recent writings, particularly articles about science and scientists.
Finally, I’m out of town the rest of the week, but I hope to post at least once during that time. ‘Til then….
