Fun with RSS | Less is More | Career Advice from a Comic Book | Twitter for President | Four Links | 02.28.08

1) Fun with RSS | Multiple Sources
Playing around with Aide RSS which instantly tells you the most popular posts on a blog and Friend Feed which looks like it builds on the Tumblr concept. If that made sense, you’ll know I’m oversimplifying. If you still think WTF when you see RSS, click here.

2) Less is More | Murketing
More proof that more bodies calling more reporters at more media outlets is NOT the answer comes to us from Murketing.

Yesterday three publicists at the same PR firm pitched me three different stories in the space of less than four hours. All three were on the same basic theme…it doesn’t suggest a great deal of internal efficiency and coordination, does it?

As I noted at The Bad Pitch Blog, we’re pissing off the media more than we realize.

3) Career Advice from a Comic Book | BusinessWeek
The first business comic book is on its way. In Japan, no subject is too serious or too pedestrian for manga. The >book< arrives at a time when business-book publishers, like many others, are contending with readers who have less time to gather information from the printed page. Already, business books have become smaller, designed to fit in a coat pocket and be read completely during a two-hour plane ride.

4) Twitter for President | TweetVolume
TweetVolume quickly tells you which presidential candidate is generating the most discussion on the trendy little microblogging platform we all I know and love. TweetVolume has interesting potential IF your target audience is using Twitter.

tags | public relations | PR | media relations | media | bad pitch blog | RSS | manga | Twitter

Comments

[Kyle]

I'm not completely addicted to TweetVolume....eh gads that is cool.

/kff

[Michelle]

Kevin, I was at a conference back in October where Dan Pink was the keynote speaker. The particular audience he was speaking to (mostly HR trainers and instructional designers) were sort of confused about the use of manga. I was excited though and twittered, well, excitedly. He pretty much talked about how manga is being used for training in Japan - that it's more than just a comic book style. This fascinated him and inspired him to write Johnny Bunko. My favorite tweet from that session:

"Dan pink's next book is a graphic novel on business in manga style. Answers question "wtf?" Seriously."

And yes. That's the question he told us it answered.

[Julie, writer Surefirewealth.com]

Well, whoever said that we can't make a comic book out of topics like career? In fact, it might even be a better medium than tedious books that aren't really effective at all. It sounds like a promising concept and I wonder how well it will do.

[Kevin Dugan]

Kyle - A lot of the Twitter toys are addictive. Glad you like Tweetvolume.

Michelle - Dan is a great speaker. Cool that he inspired you on manga.

Julie - Playing Devil's advocate I hope manga does not catch on too much. My fear is it will/could be the equivalent of book on tape. I think there are places for manga and book on tape for that matter. But I do not think it replaces long form content either.