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Re: When in a crisis, objectivity and speed are your friends

eriksr — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:11:31 -0000

You're darn' tootin'!

Re: When in a crisis, objectivity and speed are your friends

eriksr — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:58:09 -0000

Haven't read your link yet Julie, but just wanted to drop my thoughts quickly -- things happening over the weekend are nasty because, typically, the watchdogs are resting. So yes, social media HAS changed the way we manage and deal with crisis, and you've got to be vigilant. Unfortunately, that means working during the weekend.

Setting up Google news alerts, keyword searches in your RSS feeds, and just plain old snooping around are practically necessities now, sad to say, but will help minimize the amount of time you need to be on guard (when you should, by rights, be recuperating).

Re: TechCrunch taught me why sometimes bloggers are wrong

eriksr — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:33:09 -0000

Thanks for the considered response, Peter. You make a very valid point about the Foleo's capabilities. I must admit, I felt the same way towards Palm at the time. I don't entirely agree with your thought about the Foleo being the wrong product to enter the market with, though.

It is a poor product, no doubt, but it would put their foot in the door and be compared to smartphones more so than proper laptops. When netbooks started to ship and began kicking the Foleo's butt, Palm would have an opportunity to respond and so the market would unfold. Now the netbook market is commoditized and its not worth getting into unless you have an extensive chain built up to build things like this cheaply -- there's no hope of them getting into the game. They are stuck with Treo's, which PalmOS or WinMobile powered are basically outdated and outsexed by everyone else, and no one is buying PDAs anymore.

I'm afraid Palm will die a slow, painful death, now. I think I would have preferred that they gambled their future on a possibility, however weak, than go out this way.

Re: TechCrunch taught me why sometimes bloggers are wrong

eriksr — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:57:48 -0000

LOL. Nice story, I've never heard of the REDfly I'm sad to say. Looks like a
lovely device except for the whole Windows Mobile aspect.

Honestly, I'd really just like Palm to do well again. Pioneering a new
market -- painful lessons or not -- would have been a nice step for them and
cemented them as visionaries (I'm conveniently ignoring the fact that
Handspring was the visionary re: Treo...) :)

Re: Hey Look - This is an older video. On Graham’s last day of...

eriksr — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:08:06 -0000

Will wonders never cease!

Re: What’s Next for Impulse

eriksr — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:02:44 -0000

God bless you guys for giving us such a sweet interface, really. I haven't tried Penny-Arcade's service yet, but this is waaaaay better than Steam and Gametap in my opinion.

Re: Pitching in the clear: MicroPR

eriksr — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:07:33 -0000

On the question of HARO -- Twitter would certainly elicit a fast response...and would also cut down on the fluff PR professionals can't help but throw into their correspondence.

How often have you referred to your client's product as "best of breed"? Or "industry leader"? This is fluff. It carries absolutely no weight with reporters and only further reduces their attention span. the 140 character limit of Twitter will cut that down. In that regard, it's bloody brilliant!

So that's great. But the question remains -- if you had to pitch a new product to a reporter, how would you do it in 140 characters while not giving away information of value to competitors YET keep it interesting enough for the journo to respond?