Welcome to the PRobecast, Episode 51 of Topaz Partners’ weekly PR-related podcast.

Doug Haslam, Todd Van Hoosear, Adam Zand and Tim Allik discuss: :

1. A quick recap of Boston’s Social Media Breakfast 5; “How Twitter Changed My Life,” and Twitter hits the books

2. Wired’s Bruce Sterling unloads on PR: Fair or not?

3. Cringe-inducing pro-Hillary Clinton music video goes viral

Plus discussion of other more effective videos.
4. Medill Journalism School has trouble sourcing quotes

5. Newspapers roundup: New York Times cuts staff and no link-love (no links, period) from USA Today

6. Naked Justice? Naked Cowboy sues naked M&M.

7. Stock pick of the week and what to do this weekend; celebrate the end of the writers’ strike

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* Opening Music: “Junk In A” by Pat Zelenka, available on the Podsafe Music Network.

Please find below the audio recording from the February Social Media Club Boston event.

We put together an excellent panel of technology and political experts who discussed the present and future of the electoral process, and the role that social media will play as we move forward.

Our moderator for the event was John Della Volpe, director of polling at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and founder of SocialSphere Strategies, a Web 2.0 strategy company located in Harvard Square, Cambridge. John was joined by a panel of experts that included:

* Morra Aarons, Internet communications consultant, former Director of Internet Marketing for the Democratic National Committee and Kerry-Edwards ‘04; political director of BlogHer.org.
* Joseph Carrabis, founder and chief research officer of NextStage
* Robert Boyle, founder, Glassbooth.org

Following introductions and the general panel, breakout sessions were conducted. The breakouts were not recorded, but the recaps of those breakouts were. Enjoy!

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