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HARO, Twitter and the Future of Discourse

Luca Lepori — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:37:18 +0000

Sometimes the crucial difference between interesting and vapid journalism is found in what questions are asked. Pam Baker has asked some excellent questions about Twitter, and has come back with interesting answers.

Last month I responded to a request in Peter Shankman’s HARO [Help A Reporter Out] email from prolific tech writer Pam Baker. She was working on a piece titled Twitter and the Future of Discourse. Her query included several questions about Twitter such as:

Is it a fad or is it here to stay?
Will its 140 character limit on messages feed its success or prove to be a fatal flaw?
And, is Twitter “reversing the course of intelligent conversation, taking us back to
toddler language skills?”

I found her questions genuinely interesting, so I took some time to think through and respond to all of them. I began anticipating reading her article as soon as I sent her my thoughts, and was very pleasantly surprised to find out a few weeks later [thanks to Kreg's Google Alerts] that I’d been quoted in the article.

Since then Pam’s Twitter and the Future of Discourse Part 2 has been published on Technology News – check it out, both are worth reading. And no, not because of my two cents – there are many stronger points made by Pam herself and the others who responded to her.

Peter deserves a lot of credit for putting together HARO and making it possible for reporters to connect with an increasingly broad source of contacts for their research and writing in an efficient, timely manner. I know that without Haro this would never have happened. Thank you to Peter and Pam for giving the Twitter community [and others] the opportunity to participate in journalism in the midst of its huge upheaval, and hopefully – its renaissance.

CRM manager – New Site Launched

Luca Lepori — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:20:26 +0000

We launched the new CRM manager site today. Both the client and ourselves are very pleased with the results. It’s a bespoke design by Kreg and is based on WordPress which has been great to work with from both a design/deployment perspective, and, going forward, a self-serve content management perspective for the client. We’re grateful to have had this opportunity to deliver a shiny new site for the folks at CRM manager.

Contact us if you’d like to learn more about this project and/or if you’re interested in a new custom site with great features that is also easy to maintain.

It’s about time…

Luca Lepori — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:58:37 +0000

Months and months ago I started bugging Kreg about setting up a blog for Kombine.net. It didn’t take long before he had WordPress installed, up and running. And then… Well, I realized that I barely had time to think about the business’ blog, never mind actually writing some of these thoughts down. But I did make time to think about it over time, and here we are.

First, if you haven’t already, check out the site and let us know what you think. Next I’d like to point out our ~~Industry News aggregation widget [News from around the web »]~~ This widget is no longer available. It’s another one of Kreg’s creations and one that can be habit forming.

Brian has also put together a couple of cool apps that you may find useful. If you are struggling with leviathan-length URLs, head over to Shortify. If you’d like to quickly create a web page or make some notes publicly or privately, check out his Wikinote.

Recent projects here have included:

Launching TechnicalProse.com
The refresh of the Mr Box site, mostly the CSS and backend functionality
Ongoing maintenance and backend functionality enhancements for ProTrails.com
A bunch of stuff we can’t say a lot about for a well known technology company, including marketing collateral and sales training

Semi-random suggested reading: The Best of Brochure Design 9
This series of books has been a running favorite at Kombine for several years.