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Posts from May 2008

Dear PR people: How to Pitch Bloggers

In the wake of my previous post and Gina’s PR blacklist that sprang from it, it seems like a good chunk of the PR industry is blogging about the things they should and shouldn’t be doing, but I’m not seeing a lot of practical real-world solutions that would work for bloggers getting pitched. All the […]


Stop asking, start filtering

I know it’s a cliché as a blogger to complain about public relations flacks sending you giant PDFs and weekly emails on topics you don’t care about, but recently I noticed my tried and true polite email saying:
Please remove my email address from your PR lists.
Thanks,
Matt
totally stopped working. Turns out that a lot […]


GEL recap

Last week, I attended my third GEL conference in New York City. Like previous versions of this conference, it’s a day of talks from speakers that have a variety of stories to tell about “good experiences.” The diversity of the speakers’ backgrounds is the strength of the conference and this year didn’t disappoint. In […]


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2 May 2008 @ 2pm

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April cycling/diet update

Just a quick monthly guilt-trip for myself: Thanks to a week of travel and a bout of sickness, I only covered 185.59 miles in April and my weight hovered around the same as last month. On the positive side, I did just break 800 miles for the year (normally a year-long amount of riding) and […]