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If you ever wondered if there is a tech world outside Silicon Valley, you might be surprised to know that all the great minds on the Internet do not live in California. A Swedish school called Hyper Island trains the digital pioneers of the future, though so few realize it. Everything PR brings a glimpse of the future of social and digital learning.
Socialkik is one of those relatively controversial companies that sell Facebook fans, Twitter followers and YouTube views. But is it worth it to buy followers? It all depends on what you will do next.
Cision, top provider of software, services and tools for the media and public relations industry, has launched a version of their on-demand PR software solution CisionPoint which integrates self-service broadcast media monitoring capabilities. CisionPoint is thus the first software platform of its kind in the United Kingdom to offer near real-time, self-service broadcast monitoring.
Motorola’s new Android-based smart phone, Defy, will be officially launched on 25th season premiere of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Defy’s main quality is its durability, complemented by other common modern smart phone feature, and will be available by this winter holiday season.
Crowdsourcing was defined in 2006 by Wired’s Jeff Howe. The “Rise of Crowdsourcing” has given way to an interesting state of affairs where business utilization of the cloud is concerned. In point of fact, the crowd is so vastly utilized now many do not even classify engagement as crowdsourcing – but it is.
Every PR needs to know about design: no campaign can be effective promoting poor design, and poor quality in general. Sonia Mansfield, joins the Everything PR team to teach you about effective design.
The tablet is going to attack the Apple iPad directly on many levels, a lot like the multitude of other devices that have flooded the market trying to improve on the iPad’s perceived weaknesses. It will support Adobe Flash, and is expected to be thinner and lighter than the iPad. Motorola’s tablet will also support tethering, have two cameras — one front-facing for video conferences and a rear-facing for taking photographs.
Google has opened up a bunch of new API’s for it’s social networking service Buzz this week. The most significant API released is a new real-time “firehose” feed that will allow all of the third-party developers to consume all of the real-time data from public Buzz messages. The firehose, which is powered by PubSubHubBub, opens up the door wide open for building comprehensive Buzz analytical and data mining tools.
O’Dwyer PR’s New Business Council has been opened to help PR firms market themselves to prospective clients and also to cope with the many issues and opportunities facing PR firms in today’s fast-changing environment.
A new PR addon for Mozilla Firefox has just been released by BeFrame. PRFrame is said to be a useful tool for PR experts, beginners and all those generally curious about public relations. While the actual features are not clearly defined in the release annoucements, the browser tool might show some potential.
