Thu, 2021-04-01 05:48
Sam Whitmore
'Founded' is Google's Pitchable Podcast for Women Who Lead
Perhaps you saw the headline in HBR: “Women-Led Startups Received Just 2.3% of VC Funding in 2020.” Google — the company — is out to fix that with a recently launched podcast called Founded… and its co-founder welcomes your pitch.
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If you weren’t able to place any speakers in the 2021 RSA Conference, join the crowd. Though it’s too late for this year, SecurityCurve CTO Diana Kelley, who also serves on the RSA Conference’s ML/AI program committee, wants you to have the following useful info for next time.
[SWMS contributor Amanda Orr writes:] There's a quiet rumbling in the world of PR consultants and tech publicists: media relations is not what it used to be. The change didn’t happen overnight. Perhaps it’s because I’m writing this from my temporary home in Amman, Jordan, surrounded by Roman ruins, but I can’t help but imagine an archaeologist one day in the far off future, excavating a site in San Francisco...
Cade Metz is consistent. We interviewed him in 2008, 2012 and 2015. Each time he has carried the same message: though he reports on tech, it’s always about the people. This week we checked in with Cade to discuss Genius Makers, his new book about “the mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook and the world.” Again with the people!
Great content is there for the taking at The Conversation, a non-profit publisher with offices in the US and seven countries overseas. The Conversation disseminates its content under a Creative Commons license. This means that anyone can republish an article for free as long as one doesn’t edit it, and credits both the author(s)as well as The Conversation itself.
Can you trust columnists and contributors to be fair to the companies they write about, and to be free from biases and conflicts of interest? In the age of the "indie influencer," we can hope for these things. We also can put in the work. Here's the SWMS guide for where to look and what to look for, to avoid engaging with compromised publications or individuals.
Here's a list of 18 core targets who cover digital transformation. Whom are we missing?
There’s nothing like a side door into the New York Times. This year has brought one — Currents. Its tag line: “How rapid advances in technology are transforming our lives.”
Have you made the time yet to join Clubhouse and take part in a conversation? We finally got around to it this week and it helped us understand that social audio will alter the landscape in talk radio, webinars, virtual events and social media overall.
SWMS contributor Rhiannon Pacheco writes: Mary Ann Azevedo has long been respected by PR professionals for her prompt and always courteous communication and honest, kind feedback. With her recent move to TechCrunch, accompanied by a new beat, we sat down with her to ask her “Two Questions...”