Tag Archives: RSS

Stop Reading PR Blogs

By Parker Mason | Published: October 7, 2009
Earlier this year, I suggested that PR students wanting to get involved in the online world should avoid starting a PR-focused blog. Now, I’m going to suggest that we all stop even reading PR blogs. They aren’t that representative of the real world—the wilds of the internet. Rather than focusing on how this tightly knit community (I [...]
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How big of a deal is RSSCloud?

By Parker Mason | Published: September 30, 2009
The news (via TechCrunch)—a few weeks old now due to this post getting stuck in Draft limbo—that Wordpress has just made all of their blogs RSSCloud-enabled seems like a pretty big deal to me. While it might seem like RSS is real-time, it actually isn’t. Depending on the setup, it can take minutes to hours for [...]
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CNW Goes Big On Twitter

By Parker Mason | Published: August 12, 2009
CNW Group has always been committed to getting our clients’ news in front of journalists and the media. For years, the only way to really do this was via the news wire. When fax machines became an accepted way to send and receive news and information, CNW Group embraced that technology to reach members of [...]
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Twitter is the RSS dream made real (follow @BlogCampaigning!)

By Parker Mason | Published: July 16, 2009
Twitter is the RSS dream made real. (I repeated the headline here because I’m feeling pretty self-satisfied with having written it.) If you’re reading this post, you’re probably pretty hip to the RSS scene (I know that the majority of BlogCampaigning’s readers read it via RSS). But you’re not mainstream—you’re probably a PR Pro with a Penchant for [...]
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RSS and The Masses

By Parker Mason | Published: December 18, 2008
If you know me, you know that I’m always trying to convert my friends to the latest and greatest social media tools. For the most part, it hasn’t worked. All it has done is remind me that I’m living in a bubble. In fact, my only real success story is with my roommate Claudio who started a [...]
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Getting Started Online Part Two: RSS

By Parker Mason | Published: October 20, 2008
(note: this is a belated followup to the post I wrote almost a month ago about Twitter) A few weeks ago, I told my roommate about the magic of RSS feeds. I also told him about how he could go about subscribing to these feeds using an RSS reader like Google Reader. Last week, I couldn’t help [...]
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