Facebook Growing Exponentially

Posted: December 19th, 2008 | By: Steve Mullen | Filed under: EndGame PR Site News, SEO PR News, Social Media News, Social Media Tactics | No Comments

This news is a few days old, but I’m just now getting around to blogging about it. Word came out this week that Facebook is growing by an estimated 600,000 or more users PER DAY. Let me repeat that, because it’s hard to get your head around…

Facebook … is growing … by 600,000 or more users … per … day.

(crickets chirping)

There’s no way to really comprehend that type of growth. Think about it … that’s like everyone in a small to medium-sized city signing up each day! In all, Facebook has 140 million users.

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Tags: facebook, social media

TechCrunch “Kills” Embargoes

Posted: December 18th, 2008 | By: Steve Mullen | Filed under: SEO Tactics, Social Media News | 3 Comments

There’s quite a discussion going on at blogs across cyberspace about news embargoes after an announcement yesterday at TechCrunch. It’s fairly common practice (particularly among makers of electronics, one of the main topics at TechCrunch) for PR people to give the information about a story to the media, but tell them to hold it until a certain date or time. Yesterday, TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington yesterday posted a rant that said his site will no longer honor these embargoes, and that if a PR person gives them information it may be posted immediately, regardless of any stated embargo. Here’s an excerpt:

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Tags: blogger relations, social media, techcrunch

Web & Blog Design by EndGame PR

Posted: December 16th, 2008 | By: Steve Mullen | Filed under: EndGame PR Site News | No Comments

My apologies for the self-promoting post, but I wanted to alert everyone to the new section of the EndGame Public Relations website. If you visit this blog frequently, or even semi-frequently, you may have noticed I’ve made a few announcements about client websites. I finally got around to building a page on the site to promote the fact that EndGame PR does build websites! Up until now, it was a “shoemakers kids with no shoes” kind of thing … I was so busy building other people’s sites that I didn’t have the time to tend to my own.

For more on the service, please visit the EndGame PR Web and Blog Design page.

Social Media Changing Journalism and PR

Posted: December 5th, 2008 | By: Steve Mullen | Filed under: Media News, PR Opinion, Social Media Opinion | 2 Comments

Thanks to Lisa Hoffman for Twitting about a great blog post by Scott Hepburn that tries to help journalists take their craft into the new social media world. We are witnessing the slow agonizing death of the traditional print newspaper. The reporters and columnists that are employed by those newspapers need to start making moves to secure their future.

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Tags: Media News, social media, web 2.0

Richmond REALTORS® Client Site Now Live

Posted: December 4th, 2008 | By: Steve Mullen | Filed under: Web Design | No Comments

I’ve been working for some time to complete a new online store for the Richmond Association of REALTORS®, and the new site went live yesterday afternoon! RAR has two physical REALTOR® Stores, and to make life easier on its members, has a concierge service online. RAR was not the least bit happy with the site they had. They considered it somewhat bland, and didn’t think it worked very well. Enter … EndGame PR! Below is an image of the site on its launch date. Click the image for a larger version.