Archive for November, 2008
Social Media for Communicators
Title: The 2nd Annual Social Media for Communicators – A Web 2.0 Summit for Internal Communications, Public Relations and Marketing
Date: March 11-13, 2009
Place: Encore at Wynn Las Vegas
Description: Ragan Communications and the Public Relations Society of America have partnered again to present the 2nd Annual Social Media for Communicators conference in Las Vegas.
Last year Pete [...]
Public relations professionals versus legal professionals
I have a client, a start-up company, who seems much more enamored with legal counsel than public relations counsel.
I’ve experienced this type of opposition before — I’ve worked for Merrill Lynch in New York City, and have been a public relations counselor to Sprint Wireless in Las Vegas (just a couple examples that come to [...]
Free conference calls
I was recently introduced to a service that provides businesses, organizations and individuals with a free conference on demand phone number.
The service is FreeConference.com.
I have had a conference calling bridge as part of my VoIP phone system in the past. Now I can have basically the same bridge features for free. Awesome!
The free service includes [...]
SMS business cards
I ran across a cool new tool for exchanging contact information. It’s called Contxts.
Clever name.
You can guess from the name that what it does is facilitate distribution of contact information (up to 140 characters worth) via text messaging.
For example, you can text “prpete” to 50500 and you’ll receive a text message with my business card [...]
Golden Spike Awards
Today I attended the awards luncheon for the Public Relations Society of America Greater Salt Lake and Utah Valley Chapters and the International Association of Business Communicators Utah.
It was held at the Rice-Eccles Stadium on the University of Utah campus.
It just so happens that Saturday is the University of Utah versus Brigham Young University football [...]
Pete Codella, APR is a business communication consultant.
