There have been blog posts ad nauseam by online influencers (and I don’t mean to use that term in a belittling way, so please don’t anyone take it that way) on online tools such as Klout. Bloddy hell, we just can’t get away from “influence,&# can we? Image: Jonathan D. Blundell via Flickr, CC 2.0. Reminds me a little bit of a cheer from my high school days: Everywhere we go-o-o! People want to know-ow-ow! Who we are-are! We are (insert school/team/whatever of your choosing). The mighty mighty _ (see above). YAY TEAM!!!!! Or words to that effect. Album of the Year. MORE >>

As always, I hasten to add that I realize it’s way more complicated than this makes it sound, but this is a blog post, not the Encyclopedia Britannica. He blogs at A Professor’s Thoughts , and he’d love for you to talk to him on Twitter. I’ve been dealing with a situation for the past few weeks involving a student who thought she wanted to “ ‘be’ in public relations.”. That is, until she found out that she was expected to actually do something besides sit at her desk or go to parties. To quote my hero, Homer Simpson, “D-Oh!”. Edward L. write a lot about the subject myself. MORE >>

are lots of great blogs about there about sharpening your pitches– I like this post and this blog in [.] Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox. And you take responsibility for your comments - just as this is my blog, those are your comments, not mine. don’t know if we PR pros have a faulty gene or what, but we make it so easy for other professionals to beat up on us. Image: JKönig via Flickr, CC 2.0 And O.M.G. And that was it. MORE >>

Creating Great Video Without the “Shoot” Blogging Blogging for Grasshoppers Guest Posts Resources how to create compelling video sue o'hora video on a budget vloggingGuest post by Sue O’Hora. Video is a wonderful tool for telling a compelling story. It can be valuable for SEO , useful as a straight-forward marketing tool , and increase the reach of your message via social media in countless ways. That said, one of the challenges a number of my clients face is a desire to use video but a very limited budget with which to work. Use what you’ve got. Finding imagery. MORE >>

My initial reaction (and it’s also in the comment that I left over on the Klout blog post, since I didn’t think it fair to simply write about it here and not comment there as well) is … that it’s very pretty. commented on only two blogs yesterday (and on one of them, my comment was more along the lines of baby babble), didn’t do anything on LinkedIn, shared a couple of posts via Google Reader, and on Facebook, just sent out some birthday wishes and posted in a couple of secret Facebook groups. Here I go again: Klout does not equal Clout. Klout. Katie. MORE >>