Recent Posts
eWritings
Return To Blog Listing
Catching your dreams...
eWriting is the place where online public relations and SEO intertwine with the Web 2.0 and most importantly its people.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'Public Relations'
Latest News from Everything PR
Apple’s Price Cuts: the Anatomy of a Press Release Apple’s smart PR campaign: the company focuses the attention on the new product line. No negative innuendos in the press release title, no whining about the recession and how they had to cut ...
Pros and Cons of Different Types of Logo Designers
This is guest post from Ben Johnson of Logoinn, custom logo design service provider based in UK. Logo designing is an art and if practiced after years of learning in art schools and with hands on experience, it can do wonder for the clients. There ar...
The Art of Customer Support: StumbleUpon and Flickr under Review
If you ever wondered why Yahoo! will always be behind Google, the total absence of personal customer support is one of your answers. Yahoo! almost never dignifies users with a personal answer – not until it is too late. Yahoo! has some great servic...
Traditional SEO - Meta Description Tag
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2009/02/19/meta-description-tag/';The meta description tag is not the magic answer that will place your website at the top of the search results. But, if you’ve ever heard an SEO consultant saying...
Bulldog Reporter’s Flickr Photostream
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2009/02/04/bulldog-reporter-spamming-flickr/';I am a flickr user – not an enthusiast, but I do like the service and I use it to share photos with my friends and family. I like to browse and search...
PR Advice for Startups
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2009/01/28/pr-advice-for-startups/';TechCrunch published in May 2008 a very informative article by Brian Solis: PR Secrets for Startups. Repeating the very valuable tips from the named article one m...
LinkWorth Cared Enough to Make This Christmas Special
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2009/01/02/linkworth-cards/';I experienced a huge Web 2.0 surprise on December 27, 2008 delivered in my mail box: an envelope that travelled all way from North Texas to Schweich, Germany containing ...
Who Are You Twitting To or What Are You Twitting At?
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2008/12/12/twitter-reloaded/';Like so many social networks we use, twitter is inhabited and most effectively used by bloggers, marketers and obviously people with something to sell. Is it better to ...
The Image of Leadership
I wrote a few articles emphasizing a fact some still debate: Google does have semantic functionality although they deny their interest in semantic search. Particularly the heads of the so called semantic search engines debate this, happily wearing th...
Web Accessibility - Part II
Once upon a time the only way to create accessible websites was the dullest way possible: all text websites were considered the only acceptable in terms of accessibility. Images, animation and any other elements meant to increase the visual appeal of...
Making the Web Not Just Available but Accessible for All
Definition: Web accessibility refers to the practice of making pages on the Internet accessible to all users, especially those with disabilities. For people with disabilities the Web provides tools that open new horizons, and gives access to informat...
Your Press Release Failed, Who’s to Blame?
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2008/08/25/press-release/'; Many entrepreneurs pay a public relations company to issue a press release and expect wonders immediately after the fact. Their expectations include: Coverage in the mos...
Do We Buy “Sexy” Instead of Value?
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2008/08/19/sexy-or-value/';Allen Stern, editor at CenterNetworks wrote yesterday about an interesting local startup – ZocDoc. The news refers mainly at ZocDoc’s round A of funding from Khosla Ve...
Public Relations Through Video Blogs: 5 Tips
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2008/04/21/pr-video-blogs/';One of the best ways to really get your name and face out there is with video blogging, also known as vlogging. Adding video commentary to a blog will further connect you...
Crap versus Quality at Techcrunch
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2008/03/22/techcrunch-crap/';Or How to Stop Waving Maggie’s Old Red Flannel Drawers Techcrunch is the second most popular blog in the world, according to Technorati, and it is in the top 1000 ...
Outsourcing – Who Needs Phone Answering Services
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2008/03/17/answering-services/';Outsourcing is one of the most cost effective strategies employed by a large number of companies from large to small, and the reasons behind such strategies have usua...
Online PR Mistakes: Spamming Wired
Spamming the editor-in-chief of a popular online magazine is wrong. Being the editor-in-chief of that popular magazine and choosing to destroy the reputation of the people who made the mistake of trying to contact you on your public email address wit...
Blogs to Read: Growing Your Business Through Personal Branding
Two days ago I was writing about personal branding and business cards as a part of this process. And today, as I was browsing the Web looking for new blogs to read I decided to introduce you to a few that cover the very topic of personal branding. Wi...
Who Needs a Toll Free Number?
You do – if your business requires permanent support, if you are serious about customer service and branding. No, I am not talking here with my fellow bloggers and freelancers – we actually don’t really need to invest in toll free numbers – n...
Branding Yourself Offline - Does Your Business Card Speak Loud Enough?
Personal branding is pretty important in the life of a freelancer. As a matter of fact it is pretty important for any professional. The very concept of personal branding has enough advocates to fill up an entire encyclopedia and although we talk ofte...
Stand Out From the Crowd: The “We Are Different Approach” in Online Marketing
Not the best choice of colors, but an efficient logotype and choice of artwork. This is how Braintree is marketing its brand online. The company sells credit card tokenization (interesting choice of terms) – practically offering a service that will...
Truemors. Are You A Citizen Journalist?
Does the “citizen journalist” term apply to any blogger? Not quite. Journalists usually collect and report information that is of interest for the general public and they do not always focus on a niche. Citizen journalists do about the same thing...
Putting the Public Back In Public Relations
Blogs, Bloggers and the PR Consultants Blogging and bloggers have become an integrated part of the online public relations discipline, pretty much as mania and journalists are part of the traditional public relations. The major difference though is t...
Changing the World: One Blog at a Time
When other bloggers are preoccupied with group writing projects, boosting traffic, making money online, linking strategies and so on (not that there is something wrong with that), there are other bloggers that have different… hobbies. Some start a...
Equal Opportunities on the Web – The WAI Initiative Sustained by German Legislation
Law in Germany supports the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) sustained by official legislation in many countries around the world, too. Only that not many website owners are aware of its existence and they are even less aware of the existence of th...
Time and Attendance: Improving Performance Through Time Management and Employees Monitoring
For more than a year I worked on freelance basis and it was hard to manage my time, set priorities and manage my team. But I did it. Somehow it all worked out. I had a black notebook, some colored pencils, no experience whatsoever and a weight of mot...
The Blind and the Wind - Or Why Many E-Businesses Still Struggle to Survive
Once upon a time things were easy online. A website was just a company presentation, something placed on the Web for people to see “just in case.” Web design was born but there was not too much fuss about the how and the why. There were no stand...
How to Conduct Group Writing Projects
Joining a bloggers’ group writing project has important benefits for writers. it’s an exchange of information and knowledge; it brings authors together enhancing communication; it challenges the writing skills of the participants; it ads...
What Is a Meme and What Can It Really Do for Your Blog?
Bloggers know: playing your part in a meme brings links, increases traffic to your site and it’s fun. They don’t need special definitions to understand the meaning of “tag, you’re it.” When that Technorati statistic says so, whe...
Blogger's Ten Commandments
Thou shalt not deceive. Be honest with yourself and with your readers. Do not pretend to be someone you are not, do not pretend to know something you don't. Thou shalt not make false statements about other people, businesses, products or any of the...
