Allow Myself to Introduce...Myself (and Other PR Blog Jots)

Me, me, me, meeee

Wordwise

As a big fan of Dan Santow’s writing blog Wordwise, I am compelled to include his latest post as a must-read. It is well documented that poor writing is not only unprofessional, but can cast a pall over even a good public relations campaign. Dan’s post covers a common grammatical bugaboo for many of us, even word-nerds (myself included), with a great tip for correcting errors before they begin. Me, myself, or I? “We’d never say or write, ‘Be sure to call I at home tonight,’ yet the minute another person is involved we go all wobbly because we’re not sure if it’s ‘Be sure to call Aida and I at home tonight’ or ‘Be sure to call Aida and me at home tonight.’ Here’s what to do: Just remove the other person or thing from the sentence.”

Enterprise 2.0 Jots

Pro PR

After a week of interesting and informative posts detailing his activities at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in  Boston, Joseph Thornley links to several other bloggers posting about their Enterprise experience. They cover the gamut from social tagging to interesting dinner discussions, to live blogs from some of the panels. Definitely worth perusing for those of us who missed the event. “Jason Woodrow gives a great overview of the Launch Pad 2007 session at which four startups - Collanos, Clarizon, LiquidTalk and KnowNow - showed their stuff. Sandy Kemsley reports on Michael Vander Wal’s presentation on social tagging. Sandy Kemsley (again) liveblogs a panel of heavyweights discussing Group Intelligence.”

Time Has Come Today

Murphy’s Law

Following the “attention meme” that seems to be spreading lately, Tom Murphy discusses the values of time management in an era when more and more of our valuable time is taken up by seemingly endless social media sites and platforms springing up almost daily. “There’s more and more “stuff”. In addition, much of this “stuff” doesn’t replace what we already have, instead its an adjunct. My problem is that there’s a hard limit on how much more I can do.  There are only a limited number of minutes in the day.  I have a day job and a family.”