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My Aunt Micki who raised me during my high school days in Palo Alto used to always talk about her student organizing days in the early 70’s on the campus of San Jose State, working for Senatorial candidate Tom Hayden. She remarked about one particular day where she had the opportunity to pick up Tom and his wife Jane Fonda up at the airport and drive them around San Francisco. She was absolutely smitten by Jane and she was a role model and catalyst for my Aunt’s work in student organizing and community activism. My Aunt lost her battle to cancer last April but her admiration for Jane Fonda has always stuck with me.
Flash forward to today and what  an amazing last few weeks I have had working with my friend Jane Fonda helping to launch her new blog; JaneFonda.com. Her new blog, which launches later this evening, will give an honest, authentic and transparent look into the life of a 71 year old woman who has accomplished so much and whose life continues to influence so many through too many interests to type. As she is preparing to star in “33 Variations” her first Broadway play in more than 45 years, Jane will also find the time to give online …
Posted on Feb 01.09 to Uncategorized Comments
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Bloggers Robert Scoble via the aid of Andrew Feinberg contribute to the breaking of a NYT piece today on the usage and issues around the usage os microblogging and life streaming tools Twitter and Qik. The controversy is around whether or not members of congress should be allowed to use these new social lifestreaming tools. The focus of the piece is on Representative John Culberson, Republican of Texas, who is an avid Twitizen and wrote on his Twitter.com profile, “I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen’s ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube Utterz etc” outrageous and I will fight them,” The way the article is written one would have to believe that the democrats are in favor of regulating the usage while the Republicans are all over Twitter! However Nancy Pelosi came back with a ‘friend me’ type response, and replies, “I have a blog, use YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Digg, and other new media to communicate with constituents and that the Dems proposal would “relax rules that prohibit members from posting on sites other than the House.gov domain.”
One of the best and promising parts of the article is the involvement of Culberson’s …
Posted on Jul 13.08 to Fresh New Business Comments
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I love it when I have some “good ol’ substance and fodder” for my pitches. Sitting here in South Beach Miami preparing for a big presentation today and stumbled across this piece in the New York Times that discusses Twitter and “Micro-blogging” and its effect on the election coverage and journalism. This is very timely as I’m about to transform a slightly disengaged client this afternoon into a converted soul who will begin to look at interactive media and pr in an entirely new light. I have been a champion (and user) of Twitter for some time now and like my Fast Company colleague and fellow “micro-journalist” Peter Fasano says, “20 posts in Twitter in a day translates into a typical blog posting.” Fasano, like all my other “Twit-izen” Friends have made me feel like my contributions to Twitter count in the eyes of the “social media gods” who tally up whether or not I’m contributing. What is true is that the rules are changing and are your clients up to speed or are they waiting on you to catch up?
Posted on Jan 22.08 to Uncategorized Comments
