September 14, 2007
Mark Spencer gets carded!
I was out in LA spending some time with Mark Spencer at a trade show last week. (Well, on Monday, almost last week).
One of the vendors (Hint - "Dice, dice, ba-be") was handing out free drink coupons, so Mark and I go over there and Mark hands his drink coupon over, followed by.
"Sir, may I see some ID, please?"
Mark starts laughing, "I got carded? How cool!" So Mark whips out his drivers license, the server inspects it, says "Welcome to Mexico," and then hands him a beer.
It was amusing...
Posted by dmohney at 11:47 PM | Comments (0)
April 19, 2007
Title Change...
I've decided to rename/retitle the blog to reflect that I'm going to start throwing in some stuff about IP Communications as well as PR "stuff."
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April 07, 2007
Wire into Techorati
Is this joining the circle of trust? Hmm. Anyway.
Posted by dmohney at 09:22 PM
April 02, 2007
And so it begins...
I can't believe I'm doing this.
Unfortunately over 80 percent of the PR firms in the world have driven me to blogging.
Why? Because they are they are the ones who are charging their clients thousands to tens of thousands of dollars per month in retainer fees for... what?
I've been working as a published writer since around 1994 or 1995, writing for a couple of hack newspapers, graduating into BOARDWATCH and a couple of other trade pubs in 1997 and beyond, finally ended up at VON Magazine where I now sit as Editor-in-Chief.
In addition to that, I had two day jobs at two Internet startup companies that had me interacting with The Media and PR firms. In the 1996-1997 instance, I was doing classic PR work pitching stories directly to reporters. From 1997-2001 or so, I was Director of Marketing, and ulimately had a staff of two (2) dedicated PR people reporting to me, plus I went through a number of PR firms.
Sooo, I've seen a lot of PR firms "do their thing" over the past 3.5 years, heard too many companies complain that we didn't write about them in such-and-such and aritcle, and heard wayyya too many pitches from youngsters just out of college blindly reading off of a piece of paper.
Enough is enough. I'm getting on the virtual soap box.
Posted by dmohney at 04:21 PM