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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Mashable - The Social Media Guide - Latest Comments in Introducing the Mashable Monthly Press &amp;#038; Blogger Lounge</title><link>http://mashable.disqus.com/</link><description>Internet and Technology News - Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Networking news. With more than 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web.</description><atom:link href="https://mashable.disqus.com/thread_0946/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:12:22 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Introducing the Mashable Monthly Press &amp;#038; Blogger Lounge</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/08/15/mashable-monthly-blogger-lounge/#comment-6015517</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Image material, including screenshots / logos on site as well as accessible on the web site, on site of course a decent plan for how to be accessible for people doing interviews - everything you would need need if you would decide to cover them.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fifa 2009</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:12:22 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Introducing the Mashable Monthly Press &amp;#038; Blogger Lounge</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/08/15/mashable-monthly-blogger-lounge/#comment-6015516</link><description>&lt;p&gt;As an attendee I'd rather mingle in a relaxed informal area. The party atmosphere is much better than an expo style atmosphere. To me choosing one or the other makes more sense. At the Techcrunch party many of the booths companies paid extra for were completely overlooked, everyone went straight for the relaxed, party atmosphere, rather than getting pitched at from booth boys (and girls). Is Mashable's aim to turn into a Nick Dentonesque'First Tuesday' company? Good luck with the idea, though.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mark</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:57:43 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Introducing the Mashable Monthly Press &amp;#038; Blogger Lounge</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/08/15/mashable-monthly-blogger-lounge/#comment-6015515</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Not everybody does like reporting just from the event or directly afterwards - and looking on how most startups present themselves at such events and outside it would be more helpful to many to just get their game up to par.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Starting with decent information about what they are doing, image material, including screenshots / logos on site as well as accessible on the web site, on site of course a decent plan for how to be accessible for people doing interviews  - everything you would need need if you would decide to cover them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I mean, you know what _you_ would be looking for in reporting about them, probably the best thing to do for those startups is to give them a training on how to work with bloggers (or even just get the bloggers interested in what those startups do).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Take care of that and people will actually be interested in talking to them, but as long as they stay in the stupid 'I have a table, a press release with a lot of cool words in it how awesome we are, this will make people talk to me'!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From my personal point of view: As long as startups do not make it easier for me to cut through the crap and have easy access to what I need, I will not waste my time on them but enjoy the networking.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Nicole Simon (Berlin, Germany)</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:20:56 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Introducing the Mashable Monthly Press &amp;#038; Blogger Lounge</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/08/15/mashable-monthly-blogger-lounge/#comment-6015514</link><description>&lt;p&gt;[viddler_video=64709cd]&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">docstoc buzz</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:57:43 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>