August already. Here’s the latest Scatterbox Carnival of Image & Influence, a blog digest of news and insights toward understanding, managing and surviving the influence economy. Submit a post or link using the carnival submission form, or send it to scatterbox(@)stevensilvers.com.
Thanks to everyone for your ideas and good work. And a salute to fellow Army vet Jack Yoest at Reasoned Audacity for his kind compliments. Here’s the latest Carnival, Scatterbox, One Ea. edition:
THIS WEEK’S BEST KICK-IN-THE-BLOG | Murdoch, WSJ and the absence of PR opinion and insight by Michael Tangeman over at media mindshare. Mike noted that “it would appear that many other renowned blogging minds of public relations are too busy with tips, tech toys and visions of the social media future to simply pause for a moment, consider the significance of this landmark deal for the media landscape on which their livelihood presumably depends, and peck out at least one cogent reflection in even the most minimal of blog posts.” (Ah, for the record, I’ve been all drugged up from major surgery two weeks ago and pretty much slept through everything important until this morning. Is that same guy still in the White House?)
Whatever you were or weren’t doing, read Mike’s post and the comments that follow. It’s an interesting snapshot from inside the Fellowship of Fine Flackery (most of whom don’t submit to the Carnival of Image & Influence, by the way).
NEWS & COMMENTARY
Transparency, News Media and the NBA
— Charles Green at Trust Matters
Products Enduring the Test of Time
— David Kam at MarketingDeviant.com
(Curious) News Analysis: Consumer Consumption
— Kevin Dugan in Strategic Public Relations
Even Stern uncertain about latest NBA crisis
— Chris Sheridan at ESPN.com
The poverty of Web 2.0
— Tom Murphy in Murphy’s Law
How about reading the ads on the air?
— Stephen Baker at BusinessWeek Blogspotting
Is charity selfish too?
— Rob May at BusinessPundit
The Transparent Generation goes to college, maybe: Schools conduct online background checks to decide student applications.
— Steven Silvers at Scatterbox, Field Notes from the Image & Influence Economy
ADVICE & HOW-TO
A bad, bad pitch (As in soliciting media and bloggers for publicity)
— Shel Holtz at a shel of my former self
Breaking the ice at a meeting with LinkedIn
— Pete Johnson at Pete Johnson
7 Phrases Successful People Would Never Say Redesign time Writing for Bloggers 101: Writing Great Content and Avoiding Blogger Burnout
— Edith Yeung at Edit Dream. Think. Act.
— Jereky Hitchock at WTTF: Welcome to the Future
— Laura Young at Dragon Slayer's Guide to Life
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