Egypt, Gladwell And Social Media
The not-so Jasmine Revolution
It’s taken me a while to try to get up to speed with what’s going on in Egypt, because I’ve been mostly offline the last few days.
It’s frightening yet fascinating at the same time.
Interestingly, while the news is all over it, I found very few blog posts that I thought worth sharing – else that’s what yesterday’s weekly roundup would have focused on.
I did find the following:
1. An old friend of mine (and now a fast-rising filmmaker), Parvez Sharma, has been relentlessly live-tweeting the events, as well as conducting interviews with folks in Egypt. Some of his pieces have been featured on the Huffington Post, and he featured prominently in a CNN article a few days ago.
(I found this out through Facebook, where I saw his stream full of Egypt and #Jan25 related tweets. Didn’t even know he was on Twitter before then.)
Filed under Events, Public Relations, Shonali Burke, Social Media | Tags: #jan25, agents of change, egypt, malcolm gladwell, parvez sharma, revolution, Social Media | Comments (9)Weekly Roundup: Bees In My Bonnet
As you probably know by now, sometimes I get a bee in my bonnet.
Actually, I could get several bees in my bonnets, if only I had bonnets, so my hats have to do instead.
Sometimes they’re to do with why PR practitioners can be the worst ambassadors of our profession, sometimes they’re to do with absolutely ridiculous social media campaigns… but I’m pretty sure that, just like me, you get bees in your bonnets over certain things.
These seven posts all relate to a B-i-m-B that I’ve had at one point or another.
So of course I had to share them with you.
1. 10 social media lessons from home improvement, by Dave Fleet.
Filed under Public Relations, Shonali Burke, Social Media, Weekly Roundup | Tags: best practices, influence, Public Relations, Social Media | Comments (10)The Everything In Between Post
This post has nothing whatsoever to do with public relations or media, even social media (well, peripherally social media).
That’s why I’m calling it the “everything in between” post, since that is mentioned loud and clear in the tag line of this blog.
I think most days are good days.
As someone said to me on Twitter a while back (can’t remember who it was, sorry), “Every day you wake up is a good day.”
True.
But today was a crap day.
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