Disqus - Latest Comments for Ed Lee

Re: Blogger relations is NOT media relations

Ed Lee — Fri, 25 May 2007 22:38:51 -0000

I object! I'm all too far from being an excellent PR practitioner...

thanks for the kind words,
Ed

Re: More christmas tomfoolery

Ed Lee — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:24:55 -0000

hey Lee,
Glad you liked the card - just wanted to let you and your readers know about a cool little easter egg we slotted in there. if you select mario (the first option for question four) and build your scene anywhere but north korea, you can click on the TV for a little surprise...
Ed

Re: The best Christmas card I’ve ever seen

Ed Lee — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:40:47 -0000

i think you may enjoy this one as well...

Ed
http://www.istudio.ca/holiday06

Re: With tears in my eyes

Ed Lee — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:23:23 -0000

As I said on my blog, compare your story with this one: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14295832/and spot the difference.

Ed

Re: Second Life – first impressions part three

Ed Lee — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:38:54 -0000

I'm with you Lee - I've no doubt that there is a business (and marketing) opportunity in Second Life, but it's the potential (http://bloggingmebloggingyou.wordpress.com/2006...) that exites me, not the actual experience itself.

Ed

Re: We're Hiring

Ed Lee — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:44:43 -0000

my Web presence

current Internet Communications consultant, former top (Technorati) 10,000 blogger, pre-MBA student (applying for Sept 2009)

Re: We're Hiring

Ed Lee — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:44:43 -0000

my Web presence

current Internet Communications consultant, former top (Technorati) 10,000 blogger, pre-MBA student (applying for Sept 2009)

Re: DaveJones.ca - the intersection of social media utility & interest - DaveJones.ca - Let's go to the video tape: blogger's complaint exposed as hyperbole

Ed Lee — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:49:40 -0000

yet another compelling reason for organizations to have some sort of dynamic, almost instant, multimedia content device to talk with its stakeholders and to tell its side of the story when faced with the tyranny of an online influencer ;-)

Re: Why isn’t this on Techmeme?

Ed Lee — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:45:47 -0000

I think that edelman "talks the talk" when it comes to the blogosphere; this incident (amongst others) shows that they are some distance short when it comes to walking the walk...

looking forward to discussing this on Tuesday!
Ed

Re: Great conversation at Third Tuesday

Ed Lee — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:31:05 -0000

Hi Mathew,
Thank you for being so generous with your time, for your insightful commentary and willingness to indulge us PR folks.
Best bit of the night was when you were asked about dodgy pitches you had received. There were a few very nervous looks going around the room from the agency types!
Ed

Re: Mike gets all medieval on PayPerPost

Ed Lee — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:25:48 -0000

I really think that disclosure is vital if you're using, or thinking about using PPP. However a quick line at the start or end of the post "this post was sponsored by XXX" would be enough (iin my eyes).

The thing about PPP is that it doesn't sell reviews, it sells links. The reviews (positive, negative or neutral) are a (sometimes) beneficial side effect.

Ed

Ed

Re: Reddit gets to Digg-ify Conde Nast

Ed Lee — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:20:02 -0000

Does this mean we're one step closer to journalists being paid by the clicks?
Ed

Re: http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/06/leverage-those-core-competencies-baby/

Ed Lee — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:17:55 -0000

I'm sure you've read worse in news releases coming to your inbox...come to think of it, I've probably written worse!

Ed

Re: Facts get in the way of a good story

Ed Lee — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:23:14 -0000

just like second life!

http://www.valleywag.com/tech/second-life/a-sto...

Ed

Re: Can Sony get anything right?

Ed Lee — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:00:18 -0000

I haven't read much post-launch on the PS3 but after playing on one for 4 or 5 hours late last year I was extremely impressed.

"Underwhelming" seems a little harsh from my experience.

re the "roach motel" thing; I'm waiting for social networks and virtual worlds to add interoperability (like yahoo! and ms' messenger systems) as a premium feature - charging $5 a month to be able to flit from facebook to myspace to SL to PlayStation home to wherever. that'd be very cool.

Ed

Re: Rolling Stone: old magazine, new ambitions

Ed Lee — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:56:20 -0000

i think this idea has a lot of potential. music is such an evocative medium that evokes a huge amount of passion - precisely what you need in a community. rolling stone may indeed be old, bloated, out of touch and any other of the accusations thrown at it but it does have some pulling power.

whether they can translate this power into value added content, such as exclusive live performances, that they can build a community around remains to be seen. who knows, we may see a partnership with lastfm...

Ed

Re: Partial Freakonomics feed = bad idea

Ed Lee — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:06:14 -0000

doesn't the globe and mail offer partial feeds though?
Ed

Re: Meet your new owners: the fans

Ed Lee — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:22:32 -0000

it's a very interesting experiment, not just in the "wisdom of the crowds" but of how the process will be conducted.

if i were a member of myfootballclub.co.uk, i wouldn't be as interested in the choices i was given to make for the club, but whether i got to choose the choices i was given.

interesting times indeed.

Ed

Re: Google brings the hurt to comScore

Ed Lee — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:28:47 -0000

something that i hardly ever seen mentioned is that google's "devotion to free services" is not because of the huge pile of cash it generates on an hourly basis. on the contrary, the majority of services google releases or buys is geared to increasing the size of the pile.

for instance:

if i'm an e-commerce Web site owner, and i sign up for free analytics, i can put a price on my traffic, based on conversions. when traffic has a price, i'm now more likely to try to buy traffic using AdWords

the more blogs there are in the world (blogger.com), the more content needs to be indexed and the more competition there is around key words. now as a marketer, in order to ensure i'm top of the pile when it comes to people searching for my key terms, i buy them.

similarly, the more marketers know about the Web, and its metric driven effectiveness, the more they will spend on AdWords to attract new users and new customers.

ed

Re: Microsoft: Still unclear on the concept

Ed Lee — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:45:38 -0000

i believe steve ballmer's dad was an executive in the automotive industry - isn't originally from detroit?

Re: I can has bizness model?

Ed Lee — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:11:36 -0000

interesting - i would've thought that a good business model for these guys would be to have their own in-house ad department that would be able to produce ad-creative that are in keeping with the rest of the site.

not only do you sell the space, but you sell what's on the space...

Re: Complaint #346

Ed Lee — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:28:33 -0000

ugh, i hate it when you have to select a country from a dropdown menu and United States is the first option!

Re: First Day Jitters

Ed Lee — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:06:31 -0000

hey zoe - congrats on your new gig, you're a better person than me if you can handle event planning.

glad the list helped - although I'm not sure how bailey's would replace a squash ball...

Ed
and bailey's in coffee is much better anyhow!

Re: I’m not pretending.

Ed Lee — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:54:20 -0000

Limoncello would be good as well.
Ed

Re: 3 Up and Coming PR Bloggers You Should Read

Ed Lee — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:38:14 -0000

thanks for the kind words - always nice to know someone is reading and enjoying the blog!

Re: I Hate Media Relations

Ed Lee — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:10:20 -0000

hey ryan - good shout. i don't think any man in pr likes cold calling the media (we already get enough rejection in our lives) but it is rewarding to see a fantastic hit after finding just the right angle to interest the journalist.

it's one of the things i don't miss about working in traditional PR!

Ed

Re: What newsrooms should be

Ed Lee — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:04:27 -0000

by my count the verdict on StoryLine syndicator is 50/50. One tech journo i spoke to thought the idea had some merit; the other one thought it was shifting the problem from one medium to another.

The whole news room works well if all the parts are already working in isolation. An optimized news room full of poorly written corporatese jargon won't help anyone - the journalist, the PR, the client or the shareholders.

The whole concept of an online news room is a 'nice to have" until the PR industry sorts its collective writing act out.

Ed
blog.istudio.ca

Re: What newsrooms should be

Ed Lee — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:02:49 -0000

unfortunatley that's an assumption many, many journalists would be happy to trash from now until the cows come home.
Ed
blog.istudio.ca

Re: Every day I write the book

Ed Lee — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:19:37 -0000

the very best of British luck Ryan! it takes some stones breaking away from the corporate teat but from the few conversations we've had, I'm sure you'll do a fantastic job!

(at least your application forms will be uber neat!)

looking forward to reading about some early wins and some great successes in the very near future.

Ed

Re: Social Media 2015

Ed Lee — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:08:39 -0000

sounds very compelling but more like 2050 than 2015.

Re: We're Hiring

Ed Lee — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:44:43 -0000

my Web presence

current Internet Communications consultant, former top (Technorati) 10,000 blogger, pre-MBA student (applying for Sept 2009)