Apple’s new iPhone and thoughts on crisis PR

Kahn Media is packed with Apple products, so now that all the smoke has cleared from the iPhone 4G dust-up lets do a little PR postmortem

Aerial Photography & Chase Car Footage

Burnouts, chase footage, racing video and more will be revolutionized by this awesome new technology

The Facebook Business Model (w/ a side rant about over-sharing)

Tips on using Facebook as a branding tool for your business and a little rant about excessive oversharing in the digital age

Is Facebook Runnin on Empty?

Since he just settled a lawsuit with the GOP I thought it appropriate to kick this post off with a little Jackson Browne. Hope he doesn’t sue me. Sorry about the long delay, I’ve been workin’ hard hustling media for a few new clients and I’ve neglected my little corner of the interwebs.
So here’s the [...]

Kahn Media in the News

From the latest issue of The Green Sheet, the weekly trade newsletter for the automotive aftermarket:
RED LINE OIL RETAINS KAHN MEDIA FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS, OUTREACH
Red Line Synthetic Oil Corp. (Benicia, CA), which manufacturers a line of motor oils, gear oils and additives, has engaged Kahn Media of Woodland Hills, CA, to provide Red Line with [...]

Promoting Yourself/Clients Through Facebook

I’m not going to spend time in this post talking about “web 2.0″ or the importance of leveraging social media as a means to market your brand. I’ve said it all before, and frankly if you’re a)reading this post, or b)anyone born after 1980 you already know it.
Instead I’m just going to point out a [...]

Facebook Promotion: Fast Company "Involver" Profile

My friend and fellow PR-dude Fazel turned me on to this vid. For those of you who don’t know, Robert Scoble is a major pioneering tech blogger and author of the Scobleizer Blog, which made a lot of headlines when he was the main marketing maven at Microsoft.
Scoble shot a series of videos for [...]

Ford Social Media Guru Scott Monty on Adam Carolla Podcast

I’m a Stern fan. Always have been. So when Howard left regular radio for Sirius three years ago, I followed him. However I’m also an Adam Carolla fan, and used to love his rants on “Love Line.”
So for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, radio host Adam Carolla took over [...]

The Day Oprah Tweeted

I’ll admit, I’m not a huge fan of Twitter on a personal level. I understand its marketing potential. In fact, one of my clients uses Twitter to keep people updated during races and events to great effect. So it certainly has its purpose.
My issue with the service is that, like every other “hot new [...]

The web as a global "hive mind"

An interesting story landed in my inbox this morning. Thought I’d share it.
It’s a column at Forbes.com written by Joshua-Michele Ross, called The Rise of the Social Nervous System.
In the column, Ross argues that since more than half of the earth’s population is now connected in one way or another to the internet (1.6 billion [...]