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The Horror of Writing a Press Release

PRWeek has an excellent opinion piece this month called “How Twitter Saved Public Relations.” Author Greg Galant, CEO of Sawhorse Media, credits Twitter with helping companies get rid of the...

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HighTalking: Novelist Jon F. Merz on How Social Media is Changing Publishing...

I read “The Fixer” after a recommendation from legendary bookseller Kate Mattes at Kate’s Mystery Books in Cambridge way back in 2002.  The book is a mash-up of the crime and vampire genres and a lot...

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HighTalking: Novelist Jon F. Merz on How Social Media is Changing Publishing...

This is the second part of a two part interview with Suspense Novelist Jon F. Merz.  You can read the first half of the interview here. Jon is an author that fully embraces social media for connecting...

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Guess What? Blogging is Hard Work

In its State of the Blogosphere report for 2008, Technorati provided the numbers that tell the tale. Technorati tracks 133 million blogs 74 million posted within the last 120 days 1.5 million posted...

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Let’s Replace Press Releases with Blog Posts

Give Andrew Fowler at Newsvetter credit. Apparently, without the aid of an adrenaline shot, Fowler read through every single press release from the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas....

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Writing is a Slippery Art: 5 Must-Have Writing Books

This quote from Cyril Connolly, a British literary critic and writer, could be the blogger manifesto (even though Connolly died in 1974): “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write...

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The Danger of Arrogant Writing

Guest Blog Post By: Dave Yewman It happens all the time – and it’s usually an engineer who says it. During a presentation workshop I’ll go on a rant about jargon; how it kills communications; how using...

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Social Media is Plain Speaking

One of the unexpected benefits of social media its is forcing communicators and marketers back to plain speaking. Corporations and organizations are insular by nature.  Like gated communities.  This...

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Bad Blogging: A Guide

Every blogger – at some point – is guilty of bad blogging. Blogging is fast – Internet fast.  And that means making mistakes.  It means errors in judgement.  It means writing and publishing on a whim....

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Reading Your Way to Better Writing

  Writing matters.  More than ever. Why?  Because writing has replaced talking.  Phone calls are rare (other than those ridiculous bi-coastal conference calls with too many people).  Email is how we...

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