Christopher Penn, who was featured in the second episode of my New Comm Road podcast, is a very clever marketer.
He’s already a pro at using MySpace, where he’s closing in on 20,000 “friends”, to drive listeners to his Financial Aid Podcast, which has directly generated some $250,000 for his company, the Student Loan [...]

Neville Hobson and Joseph Jaffe talk podcasting. See more photos.
A great time was had by all last night at the For Immediate Release and Across the Sound Geek Dinner at Isabella’s in New York City.
I made the trek from Boston for the occasion, and it was well worth it. I met three trailblazers of business [...]

Last week, on his LeverWealth blog and in an audio report on the For Immediate Release podcast, PR practitioner David Phillips wrote and spoke about our many “selves.”
There’s the self that makes the corporate presentation, the self that walks the dog, the self that raises a family, etc. And there’s also the “digital [...]

I’m always interested in reading, writing, and talking about the effect that the online world has on the “rest” of our lives, though it is becoming increasing difficult to draw a nice, neat line of separation between the two.
Last month, in one of my first posts, I outlined the ways in which my own [...]

MySpace has captured Breakout of the Year honors at the 2006 Webby Awards.
See all of this year’s winners, which were announced yesterday, as well as the complete list of nominees.
And if you’re trying to figure out how to make MySpace work for your company or organization — as I will be doing when meeting [...]

I want Eric Schwartzman’s Rolodex.
As the host of the On the Record … Online podcast, Eric consistently produces outstanding one-on-one interviews with influential professionals in public relations, business communications, and the media.
Eric’s talks with the media pros are particularly compelling, as they provide good insight into the way that the industry is evolving.
Some of [...]

Boston Globe reporter Bella English has an interview today with psychiatrist Edward Hallowell, author of a new book, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD (a bit of a lengthy title, eh?), which examines how today’s technology can drive us all, well, “crazybusy” …
Now, a new vocabulary [...]

A few places of reading and viewing interest to point you to:

The recently concluded Podcast Academy has published a podcast archive, which, as of this writing, already includes links to most of the presentations. Worth checking out.
Podcast Academy photos on Flickr.
A podcasting legal guide.
An article in Business Week (registration required) on Sister Judith Zoebelein, the [...]

In trying to understand the growth and impact of new media, I like comparing where my own knowledge and typical technology use stands today with where it stood, say, one year ago.
Then …
One year ago, I didn’t subscribe to podcasts or use RSS feeds in any meaningful way. In very late 2004 or very early [...]