Inside PR 2.21 – Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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This week on Inside PR, MartinGini and Joe start the first show of the fall season with a discussion about various newsworthy and interesting topics.

0:26 Martin opens the show.

2:37 Joe brings up the incident where Air Canada damaged the wheel chair of a young boy and how Air Canada did not respond to it on Twitter. However, they have been making progress with @actoptier.

4:02 Martin shares a listener comment from Sharrilynne  Starkie. She agreed with all the advice Martin, Gini and Joe gave students but wanted to suggest another RSS reader, BlogBridge.

4:38 Martin kicks off the first episode of the fall with several news items and topics of discussion.

5:28 Gini starts off with the first item: Interviewees should always have questions for the interviewer. She suggests checking out John Heaney’s video about how to ask questions in an interview.

8:08 Gini shares the second topic: Should we use time on a plane to work or relax? She references Craig Jarrow’s 8 Ways to get Work Done on a Plane.

10:40 Gini brings up her last topic: Are we having natural conversations?

15:30 Joe shares his three topics. The first is anonymity in comments, inspired by an incident in PEI that led CBC to ban anonymous comments and require commenters to sign up before they can post one.

18:48 Joe shares his second topic: did social media kill RSS? He talks about a Neiman Labs blog post that discusses the debate.

21:20 Joe’s last topic: Does social intent determine if social networking tools succeed or fail? Fred Wilson thinks so.

24:08 Joe adds one last news worthy topic: Cranky Geeks is shutting down.

26:42 Martin jumps in with a few news worthy topics of his own. This first being about BCE’s purchase of CTV.

31:07 Martin shares his last topic: There is a social media learning curve.

32:37 Joe wants to know if you are using the new Twitter, how are you using it?

34:28 Martin closes the show.

Our theme music was created by Damon de SzegheoRoger Dey is our announcer.

This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.

Inside PR 2.20 – Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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This week on Inside PR, MartinGini and Joe kick off the new school year with a discussion about the social media tools every new PR student needs.

0:26 Martin opens the show.

1:43 Joe mentions that it’s the beginning of a new school year and that Martin is teaching again at McMaster’s PR program.

2:44 Martin kicks off the discussion about this week’s topic: social media tools every new PR student needs.

3:03 Joe shares the first tip: remember there is only one you and be consistent with how you present yourself across all mediums.

4:40 Joe reminds students to build a professional profile from day one.

5:40 Gini gives some advice for students who are hesitant to start a blog.

7:37 Martin points out how important it is to be careful about what you post online.

8:28 Joe stresses the importance of communicating and engaging.

11:26 Joe shares the 3 places students need to be to build their online profile: a blog of their own, Twitter and LinkedIn.

14:56 Martin says students need to have a good RSS reader to organize all their feeds and stay current.

16:05 Gini adds that she always asks interviewees about the last book they read, magazines they read and blogs they subscribe to. It’s important to be well read.

20:00 Martin closes the show.

Our theme music was created by Damon de SzegheoRoger Dey is our announcer.

This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.

Inside PR 2.19 – Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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This week on Inside PR, MartinGini and Joe discuss Terry Fallis‘ new book, The High Road, why measurement matters to Third Tuesday and how to deal when employees leave.

0:24 Martin opens the show.

1:00 Martin announces that Terry’s new book, The High Road, will be launching today!

1:44 Joe adds that if you pick it up, to do so in the e-book form.

4:33 Third Tuesday Toronto is kicking off it’s 5th season will a full-day conference, Third Tuesday Measurement Matters.

7:03 Gini mentions she recently saw Tony Hsieh from Zappos speak.

8:20 Martin introduces this week’s topic: how to deal with an employee leaving. He shares his story about his business partner, Louise Armstrong, making an exit from PR.

12:03: Joe asks Gini if she’s lost a main partner before.

13:40: Joe shares his perspective.

23:19 Martin closes the show.

Our theme music was created by Damon de SzegheoRoger Dey is our announcer.

This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.

Inside PR 2.17 – Wednesday, August 18, 2010

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This week on Inside PR, Martin and Gini discuss ghost blogging and whether it should be done or not.

0:25 Martin opens the show.

1:44 Martin thanks Sallie Goetsch for helping us correct a glitch with last week’s episode of Inside PR. (Thanks again, Sallie!)

2:17 Martin tells us about a great movie he saw over the weekend, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

3:26 Gini introduces this week’s topic: ghost blogging and talks about a discussion that went on about it on her blog post.

8:10 Gini wonders if there is a middle ground with ghost blogging – should we do it for clients or not?

8:17 Martin shares his perspective.

18:10 Martin closes the show.

Our theme music was created by Damon de SzegheoRoger Dey is our announcer.

This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.

Inside PR 2.16 – Wednesday, August 11, 2010

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This week on Inside PR,  Joe and Gini discuss how social media interprets news as it happens and how some companies are not prepared to deal with it.

0:42 Joe opens the show.

1:37 Joe apologizes for the technical difficulties we’ve been having with the feed over the past two weeks.

2:34 Joe brings up this week’s topic: how social media interprets news and how it impacted three different companies.

4:20 Joe tells us about the first example – how Air Canada dealt with damaging a young boy’s wheel chair.

11:08 Gini gives us example #2: how news broke about a supposed partnership between Google and Verizon before an official announcement was even made.

16:06 Joe brings up the last example – how RIM dealt with blogger backlash over their newest phone, the Torch.

18:12 Joe closes the show.

Our theme music was created by Damon de SzegheoRoger Dey is our announcer.

This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.

Inside PR 2.15 – Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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This week on Inside PR, Martin Joe and Gini discuss a listener’s comment on PRoper English and how they decide which events to attend.

0:30 Martin opens the show.

1:37 Joe shares the first listener comment, from Clint Stiles, about Inside PR #30.

3:37 Longtime listener, Chartwell 65, offers some suggestions to improve the show.

8:55 Joe talks a bit about Third Tuesday and how it started up.

10:20 Joe kicks off the next topic and asks Martin and Gini how they decided which events to attend and why?

14:37 Martin tells us about his first time attending PodCamp Toronto.

15:35 Joe shares what he looks for in a conference.

19:46 Gini encourages everyone to check out Empire Avenue.

20:13 Martin closes the show.

Our theme music was created by Damon de SzegheoRoger Dey is our announcer.

This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.

Inside PR 2.14 – Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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This week on Inside PR, Martin Joe and Gini discuss old PR vs. new PR and the launch of a new iPad application.

0:30 Martin opens the show.

2:35 Martin shares listener comments with us. The first from Donna Papacosta about a survey she’s doing on podcasting. The second is a question from Jody Koehler. Jody asks “can a person advise on new PR without knowing old PR?”

3:37 Joe explains why he doesn’t think so.

4:48 Gini talks about the difference between PR 1.0 and PR 2.0.

7:13 Joe mentions that understanding how communities are formed and developed is key to understanding social media. Having a background or understanding in social sciences, psychology, anthropology and political science can help.

12:14 Martin introduces the next topic: the launch of FlipBoard for the iPad.

16:00 Martin mentions that Reeder for iPad has changed the way he views RSS feeds.

20:34 Martin closes the show.

Our theme music was created by Damon de SzegheoRoger Dey is our announcer.

This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.

Inside PR 2.13 – Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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This week on Inside PR, Martin Joe and Gini keep it short and sweet and discuss pitches and tweets.

0:28 Martin opens the show.

3:25 Martin shares a listener “comment” with us.

4:45 Joe tells us a little more about the pitch.

8:41 Joe brings up another point in the pitch and wonders if we should follow up with reporters to find out why they’re not interested.

10:34 Martin introduces the next topic: To tweet or not to tweet on behalf of clients? That is the question.

11:18 Martin shares his agency’s policy about tweeting.

16:20 Martin closes the show.

Our theme music was created by Damon de SzegheoRoger Dey is our announcer.

This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.

Inside PR 2.12 – Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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This week on Inside PR, Martin Joe and Gini discuss weddings, comedy and why people don’t like Twitter.

0:28 Martin opens the show.

1:50 Martin tells us where he was last week

5:20 Martin, Gini and Joe share an audio comment from Bob LeDrew.

10:50 Gini talks about the resistance to change and to new technology in our industry.

11:59 Gini brings up Ivor Tossell’s recent Globe and Mail article, Why so many love to hate Twitter. Martin, Gini and Joe discuss.

19:28 Martin wraps up the show.

Our theme music was created by Damon de SzegheoRoger Dey is our announcer.

This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.

Inside PR 2.11 – Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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This week on Inside PR,  Joe and Gini discuss the rising popularity of social media monitoring tools and whether the internet really is over.

0:28 Joe opens the show.

1:50 Joe talks about the summer slowdown.

6:12 Joe asks Inside PR listeners if summers are slower at their workplace and what they do to manage the lighter workload while keeping morale high.

7:10 Joe talks about the show’s first topic: Sysomos’ recent acquisition by Marketwire. He mentions a recent post by Dave Fleet about other social media monitoring tool acquisitions over the past year.

8:30 Gini talks about the various social media monitoring tools her business uses.

10:10 Joe shares his favourite social media monitoring tools.

17:12 Gini talks about Prince’s outrageous comment “The internet is over”.

21:45 Joe wraps up the show.

Our theme music was created by Damon de SzegheoRoger Dey is our announcer.

This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.