When I moved to the Hill it was Roasters on the Hill. Then it became Stomping Grounds then Murky Coffee. Now, under Ryan Jensen, it is Peregrine Espresso. And I have sipped coffee, hung out, worked, and mooched wi-fi all along. I have also met friends, made friends, and am bound to run into one or two more over the course of the day. Bloody brilliant!

I just got off a demo presentation by a company you might not have heard of yet called Sysomos. Nick Koudas, Sysomos’ founder, personally showed me around two of the company’s products, MAP and Heartbeat, and I have to admit that I think I just witnessed 22nd century — maybe even alien — technology. Sysomos MAP is the sort of research and social media metrics tool that they have on TV and movies, the sort of data forensics tool they tout on CSI or NUMB3RS that looks spiffy on television but doesn’t exist in real life.  Well, it does exist, and in real time and in real life.  You really need to check out Sysomos and you really need to know about these tools.  Seriously.  Alien technology, for real.

We at Abraham Harrison LLC love to share what we do, both to educate the industry and to let our future clients know what we're about and what we do.  We feel it is essential to share our expertise, our processes, and our insight out and about.  Please enjoy the recorded webinar videos and associated slideshow deck.

How to Protect and Defend Your Brand Reputation Online

Sally Falkow and I are going to co-present a free webinar this Thursday on the subject of digital PR, social media marketing, and blogger relations. This event is at 1PM Eastern time and 10AM Pacific time and you need to register in advance so please register now! The name of the free digital PR webinar is How to Do Social Media Marketing: Bloggers, Social Networks, Metrics, and More

How To Use Twitter Effectively for Business and Advocacy

Tom Raferty is a gentleman.  He popped me an email to let me know that he defriended me on Facebook and wrote a blog post about me, Funny FaceBook spam! That’s what I call professional courtesy!  Here’s my response to him as sent to

Hear Chris Abraham of Abraham Harrison LLC and Jay Jaffe of Jaffe Associates about how to look after your online reputation and why it is important to do so. Be sure to register now!

I feel like continuing my experiment in cheap article-writing quality. I ordered 20 500-word blog posts for around $100 ($46 for ten) and I am going to be sharing them, unedited, online for your reading enjoyment.  This particular post is thematic: The History of X, thanks to 99 Cent Articles (read them all here):

The History Of Facebook

You are not helpless in the face of negative search results. A directed, well-executed, diligent campaign will place your desired results high in the list, pushing undesirable results down to irrelevant pages where the majority of Internet users do not bother to look. 90% of searchers never look past the first page -- i.e. the first 10 results. 99% of searchers never look beyond the second page. We will work to get the undesirable results as far from those first two pages as possible.

Online Conversation Engagement: This involves going into untold thousands of conversations already happening on the Internet where you can provide a service people are seeking.