(Update: The Twitter chat went well. Here’s a recap.)
ProfNet has saved my journalistic ass so many times over the course of my reporting career, I long ago lost count.
The PR NewsWire outfit performs a simple but indispensable service: It connects on-deadline reporters with experts and others who have the information the journalists need to execute their stories. More …
As a journalist, I love ProfNet.
This PR Newswire service lets journalists seek sources for their stories via a clearinghouse of public-relations people, experts in a range of fields, and others with information of potential value.
I file ProfNet ‘queries’ regularly.
ProfNet periodically profiles journalists via a Web-published Q&A. I was the ‘Spotlight’ subject today. Thanks.
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How can journalists use the Google+ social network?
It’s definitely an underused online resource among reporters, which is a shame since I’ve found Google+ to be hugely useful in my work.
I discussed this as one of two guests (along with Google+ heavyweight Sarah Hill) on a Google Hangout hosted by PR NewsWire’s Profnet (with which I’m intimately acquainted). More …
In the five-seconds-of-fame, blink-and-you-missed department, my homely mug recently appeared ever-so-briefly in Times Square.
That’s a PR Newswire electronic billboard in the Big Apple. Above it is another billboard explaining why New Yorkers were being subjected to my likeness.
PR Newswire’s ProfNet division was promoting an upcoming Twitter chat, with yours truly as the guest and interviewee.
That Twitter chat occurred shortly thereafter. More …
Just about everyone has used a computer to write. For more than a quarter century, users of Windows-based PCs and Apple Macintosh machines have fired up word processors to tap out letters, school papers, office reports, novels and so on.
Now, tablet computers and other ultramobile devices are being used for writing. Such gadgets, including Apple’s iPad tablets and comparable gear from Google and Microsoft, have emerged as the writing machines for the 21st century. More …