In Case You’re Interested

April 24, 2008 – 3:15 pm

I know I haven’t been posting very religiously here lately. I’m still in the process of doing a lot of backend work on some of my sites before I’m able to focus exclusively on content. After taking about two months off, I’m re-launching my PR blog: Naked PR (be forewarned: if you think I can be a bit too “abrasive” here at AFW from time to time, you won’t like Naked PR).

I don’t normally plug that blog here, but it’s really becoming my primary focus, and there are a few pieces coming up with the re-launch (early May) that I think would be of interest to some writers. For example:

1. I’m doing a short interview with ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse on where bloggers fit into journalism. If you’re a blogger, you might want to check that out.

2. I’m also talking to Joe Beaulaurier of PRweb about how to deal with criticism on the Web (and again, if you’re a blogger, you’ll likely be subjected to it at some point). He handles it better than anyone I know, so that should be an interesting chat.

Of course if you’re a press release writer you’ll find various things of interest there. Two other interviews that you may or may not be interested in are also coming up soon: one with my very good friend and lecturer in media studies, Andreas Charalambous, about our willingness to adapt to new social media technologies, and the other with Shift Communications’ Todd Defren on the social media press release.

Also, for the bloggers and freelancers here, if you’re interested in learning how to do anything specific on the online PR front to promote your work or site, please let me know. I’ll be doing more tutorial-style pieces soon as well, and I’m always open to your suggestions.