PR Thoughts

Merry Christmas !

... and happy new year to everyone, I'll be traveling around the next days, so meet you here again in 2006 !

Loïc Le Meur does a podcast with french Ministor Nicolas Sarkozy

Famous blogger Loïc Le Meur, VP Exec Europe at Six Apart did a podcast interview with our french Minister Nicolas Sarkozy ! But not only that, he also offered him his latest book and an iPod for Christmas !
There is no stopping him...;o)

Technorati Tags: loiclemeur, Six Apart

Allocine launched it's podcasts

The french cinema portal allocine has launched it's podcast: you can now download the last trailers, exclusively by using iTunes. Good idea but not really a podcast in the original spirit, rather another channel of distribution.

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Hediard Paris sells products that have past their sale-by date

You certainly know our famous french brand Hediard, whose "shops are characterized by a large range of delicatessen products (about 6 000 items), from both local and distant lands, which privilege quality over fashion, and by the exceptional presentation of their products. Perfumes, colours and images reflect the seasons and evoke rarity, exoticism and authenticity."

I bought last Thursday (the 15th December) a 1 kg box of their fruit pastes, famous around the world, that you can see on the picture below to make a gift :

Do you know what ? This person I've given the fruit pastes found they had some "special", "bizarre", taste, she had a careful look on the box and was astonished to read they had past their sale-by date: October 2005 !!! We are now the 19th December !!
We gave a call to the shop, and still more surprizing, the answer we got: "you must have taken a product off the shelf" ... Indeed, that's what I did. Seems like I shoudn't have done so. Seems like it isn't the first time this has happened to them. Humm.... Bad PR guys....

How can such a brand dare to do such things. Are they playing with tourists who won't be cautious enough to check the sale-by date prior to flying back home with their products, is it this kind of image that traditional French brands like Hediard should promote ??

I am furious to a point you can't possibly imagine, but thankfully I live in Paris, and I am going to go back to the shop, and let me tell you I am going to write here exactly the way they are going to react. Hope they know what customer service means. Hope also they heard about the blogosphere...

Technorati Tags: hediard, paris

Analysis of the Dell/Jeff Jarvis story

Market Sentinel published a white paper measuring the influence of bloggers on corporate reputations, available to download as pdf file.
Sheila Sang, Market Sentinel's Online Publishing Director gave us her thoughts on this case study as she came at Les Blogs 2.0.

PR includes "laugh" sometimes

This one is really great, just wanted to share it with you...

3535 photos of Les Blogs on Flickr

I've just uploaded about 10 photos I took at Les Blogs 2.0 on my Flickr account, and there are now exactly 3535 photos tagged lesblogs, just few hours after the ending of our conference !! This is just incredible ...

Amazing to see all the laptops, quite as much as attendees, this is really something I never saw anywhere else than at bloggers conference ! Thanks to the great job that WaveStorm's team did, we never lost the network and the wifi has not been down, probably a first time in the history of blogging conference... ;o) So definitely, if you need someone to manage your wifi hotspot, they are the one to call !

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Roy Lindeman, Readspeaker at Les Blogs 2.0

Short interview with Roy Lindeman partner of Readspeaker, launching Read.io at Les Blogs 2.0

Technorati Tags: lesblogs, lesblogs2

Yann Motte, VP Product Manager Europe at Yahoo

Short Vlog interview with Yann at Les Blogs 2.0 in Paris: so what's new at Yahoo! ??
Part 1

Part 2

Technorati Tags: lesblogs, lesblogs2

Salim Ismail, CEO of PubSub

Salim is sharing with us his thoughts on the evolution of Internet

Technorati Tags: lesblogs, lesblogs2

Virginie Robert, Editor of Les Echos

Virginie is editor of the first national daily economic Les Echos, they open their blog since few weeks, short Vlog interviews with her first thoughts....

And "Yes", Virginie is blogging ! ...and by the way, Virginie, I am coproducer with Loïc of Les Blogs 2.0 ;o)
Thank you for your article ;o)

Technorati Tags: lesblogs, lesblogs2

Eric Tenin, chief editor of PC Expert France

Vlog interview of Eric Tenin, the first french chief editor to have his journalists blogging. Direct live from Les Blogs 2.0

Technorati Tags: lesblogs, lesblogs2

Dave Sifry answering one question

Quick post with few words from Dave Sifry at Les Blogs

Technorati Tags: lesblogs, lesblogs2

Do you have questions for my panel ?

Few hours left prior to our event Les blogs 2.0, I am beginning to be really stressed, hope we didn't forget any details...

By the way, if you have any question you'd like me to ask to the panelist on my session, "Tracking /Listening to the online world", don't hesitate to leave me a comment, it will be on tuesday 2.30 pm and I'll be talking with:

• Mark Rogers, CEO, Market Sentinel, UK
• Salim Ismail, CEO, PubSub, USA
• David Sifry, CEO, Technorati, USA
• Yann Motte, VP Product Management,
• Yahoo! Europe, U.K.
• Mark Fletcher, Founder, Bloglines, USA

I am going to moblog a lot those two days, mainly do Vlog interviews of speakers and participants that I'll post here and/or probably on my podcast, I don't know yet what wil be the most convenient, so stay tuned !

Technorati Tags: lesblogs, lesblogs2, podcasting, vlog

Evening party of Les Blogs 2.0

The evening party of Les Blogs 2.0 will take place at the Barramundi, close to the Opéra Garnier.

Stéphanie, owner of the bar-lounge is ready to welcome us monday evening !

 

clic on the thumbnail to watch the video

Technorati Tags: lesblogs, lesblogs2

Great search engine

Well, it is not really about search engines, but rather looks like search engine agregators. The first one I'd like to mention is the one you can see on the right vertical column of my blog, a free one, that you can get there and is called the "Blogbar". As you can see, you can install it on your own blog.

It's really a great tool as you can get by just one click results of the major blog search engines, web search engines or even both at the same time, depending of your request. It is opening automatically a window for each search engine, and makes it really easy to launch a request on one key world and compare the results. You can also customize it to keep the same look as your blog's one. A nice way to save time ...

Blogbar provides you with results coming out of the main search engines as you can see below:

The other one I'd like to mention, Talk Digger is a little bit different as it is dedicated to search based on URL address, and provides you with the number of results coming out from Bloglines, BlogPulse, Feedster, Technorati, Icerocket, BlogDigger, PubSub, MSN Search and Google. This one is called Talked Digger and is available in a beta version.

Talk Digger is a new way to join and follow discussions over the Internet:

• You go to a webpage
• You like it and want to see what other people have to say about it
• Then you copy the URL, go to Talk Digger and search for it to see who is talking about it

It seems like if you want to listen to the online world, you have to new tools that are  customized to help one be more efficient ! Definitely worth trying both of them !
Via Netwizz