FIR Cuts
Monday, September 12, 2011
FIR Cut - Choosing the right social platform for reaching the media
Cut from FIR #616:
- Online Journalism Review: Which social media tool is the right one for PR professionals?
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Monday, August 01, 2011
FIR Cut: Crowdsourcing The Big Mac Index
- The Economist: Fast food for thought: What do hamburgers, lipstick and men’s underwear have in common? The joys of quirky economic indicators
- The Economist: The Big Mac index: Currency comparisons, to go
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Monday, March 14, 2011
FIR Cut - That Chrysler tweet
Cut from episode 590: Chrysler’s reaction—or overreaction—to an errant tweet from a staffer at the company’s social media agency sparks ridicule.
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FIR Cut - Facebook’s comment utility: a force for good or evil?
Cut from episode 590: Not everybody thinks the Facebook utility that lets blogs and other websites leverage the social network’s comments is a good idea.
- Troll, reveal thyself (in support of Facebook’s comment utility, from Slate)
- The Facebook empire ends here, (opposition from Geoff Livingston)
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Monday, February 28, 2011
FIR Cut - Childish PR practices; the end of email
- Cut from episode 588: A PR rep unfollows a journalist because of critical stories.
- European company will ban internal use of email by 2014 (free FT registration required)
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Monday, January 03, 2011
FIR Cut - Travel and Twitter
- Cut from episode 580: Airlines and politicians make good use of Twitter during the holiday travel nightmare affecting the U.S. East Coast.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
FIR Cut: Smartphones to ring up 28% of holiday shopping
- Cut from episode 575: Information Week articleexplores the role smartphones will play in 2010 holiday shopping
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