Share your mix. Discover new music. 8tracks is a simple way for people to create or listen to a mix, a short playlist containing at least 30 minutes—roughly 8 tracks—of music. - Clinton Schaff
What Is Project Dogfood? The project is this: we're going to rebuild an event's Web 1.0 site into a Web 2.5 site (whatever that is). Build an account, and let's talk about the future of websites. - Clinton Schaff
Take a look at your volunteer program and spiff it up so that your volunteers will want to come and stay. Volunteers are not that hard to please. Here are a few things they have a right to expect from you - master these and you should be able to recruit and keep your volunteers. - Clinton Schaff
The latest development is that blogs beget buzz. Blogs have changed everything because they represent a cheap, effective podium for creating buzz on a massive scale. Technorati provides an easy way to identify the A-listers, so all you have to do is attract the most influential bloggers. Here is a guide to the process. - Clinton Schaff
The press release is the least loved document in the media universe. We get way too many here at TechCrunch, and some bloggers equate them to spam. But they do have their uses. In this guest post, Brian Solis explains how the press release has evolved, and sheds some light on why it may be so difficult to kill off. - Clinton Schaff
PR is a tough game. When the market is red hot, its hard to get noticed because there are a lot of companies in the market. When the market is cool it is hard to get people to pay any attention because they are not interested (tired after the hot market). And for startups its even tougher to have effective PR because a startup can not throw a lot of money at the problem (not that throwing money always helps big companies). - Clinton Schaff
When planning your PR activities for the year, as a general rule, consider the full year ahead, plan for six months, and expect to revise after three months. Like most business activities, PR requires flexibility and a recognition that things will change over time. However, there are a number of factors that'll make a measurable difference to your company’s success if you take them into account at this early stage. - Clinton Schaff
As most of you know, we launched Shizzow last week, and we began using the Shizzow Twitter account with it. I’ve been doing most (but not all) of the tweeting from the Shizzow account, and I wanted to share some best practices for using a corporate Twitter account effectively without being spammy. - Clinton Schaff
Recently, I’ve seen a number of companies struggling with how to get more savvy about social media and social networking, and a few have jumped in to participate, but not in a way that is productive. According to Jeremiah Owyang at Forrester, participating effectively in social media may be even more important in times of recession. In the spirit of helping companies get involved, I thought I would put together a small Starter Kit to help companies get off on the right foot. - Clinton Schaff
Brands That Suck on Twitter: I don’t write this post to be mean spirited; I write this post to simply call attention to brands and companies that are totally missing the boat and not listening on twitter where millions of conversations are happening everyday. Do companies think about or even care what people are saying about them, their products or services on twitter? If they don’t, then they are about to be rudely awakened soon enough. - Clinton Schaff
"While there are many variations and some companies skip from step to step, these are the major evolutionary phases of how I see companies adopting micromedia tools like Twitter." - Clinton Schaff
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Over a period of 12 months, we identified all of the active online blogs and discussion boards that might be interested in our site topics - Clinton Schaff
Ethan, so I got this answer right... Does that mean I'm smart or something. I thought it's just cuz I have no confidence in my gut instincts. I love Yale now. - Clinton Schaff
Rick, it's Clint from M80. We exchanged calls a while back,but still haven't connected. try my cell at 818-568-8256 if you'd still to connect. I would! - Clinton Schaff via twhirl
Lot of people would like Clinton. But I would say she should stick to being senator.VP is a lame duck position and she with her abilities will be very restricted and cant do much - Arjun
Hillary, but that's just the guess of an ignorant Australian. - Cyvros/fyc
Edwards, but I'm Canadian and don't know squat about such things. :) - Mark Dykeman
Hillary doesn't deserve to be vice president after what she has done. - d e f c o n
If McCain goes Huckabee, then Edwards. If he goes Crist, then one of the Virginians. - Robert Peterson
Edwards. Or Biden if he wants to have fun. - Mike Keliher
Definitely. I want change for the better, it is a long time coming. I think the Obama/Edwards ticket could bring us back to being a nation actually for the people. We need leaders who would actually rally behind us, support us, and make us proud of what we can accomplish again. Perhaps I'm being blinded by the concept that ANY change that could make things better, but a girl can dream. - Liz Polay-Wettengel
Edwards: do not want. Let him be AG. I"m guessing Richardson, but I WANT Wesley Clark. - Cyndy
No guess, but I don't think McCain will be a contingent factor; I think McCain will wait to name his VP till after Obama does. - Phil Crissman