What 3 digital marketing channels & tactics will you emphasize in 2009?” Here are the top ten tactics selected: Blogging (34%), Microblogging (Twitter) (29%), Search engine optimization (28%), Social network participation (Facebook, LinkedIn) (26%), Email marketing (17%), Social media monitoring & outreach (17%), Pay per click (14%), Blogger relations (12%), Video marketing (10%), Social media advertising (7%)

Throwing shoes at leaders and politicians seems to have become the easiest way of registering a protest. These incidents, which have happened in quick succession, have raised many eyebrows. From the traditional trend of mudslinging, now shoe slinging as a new trend is increasingly followed. This has certainly caused concern to many. The National Security Guard (NSG) has already expressed its concern over the security of P Chidambaram. Now it is a cause of great concern for Press Meets organizers too. It is for sure these incidents will not stop there. There is no guarantee that such incidents won’t reoccur in future. Who is going to the be next victim. If for any reasons shoe-flingings are repeated, professionals involved in organizing such meetings or press meets will have a tough time to cope up with them.

The Domino’s Effect – Domino’s brand cultivated over 49 years…damaged in 30 minutes or less. The latest viral video on the Web today isn’t related to an upcoming summer blockbuster, nor the next Chocolate Rain sensation or even the next Obama Girl. Today’s social video frenzy is a real time case study of what happens [...]

Ads in Google News Turn it into a PR Playground – Last week an eagle-eyed reader alerted SEO blogger Barry Schwartz that one advertiser tried to use Google News sponsored links as a way spread fake news – in this case a false rumor that President Obama was killed. The ad, Schwartz notes, was pulled [...]

I have observed a very curious trend in media, over the last one year- A whole new breed of young journalists suddenly gaining a lot of ground and visibility in almost all publications and TV channels, across the country. While the seasoned journalist is still very much around, the gen X (Y?) media poses a [...]

Recently a colleague forwarded me a mail that was supposedly sent out to dozens of media persons by a renowned media personality criticizing a certain journalist about her misbehavior with PR folks and saying PR and journalism are part of the communications industry and should go hand in hand. For a moment I was surprised [...]