As many of you know, I am in Vegas this week speaking at the Social Media for Communications conference presented by Ragan Communications and PRSA.

It’s been a fantastic conference thus far, but the highlight has been the keynote by David Pogue. He’s the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and is the latest person to read this blog. 

“How do you know that, John?”

Well, David uses Google Alerts to follow the conversations that mention his name. If you are in public relations and you aren’t using Google Alerts, you need to check it out. Every day (or once a week or all the time), Google sends you an email if your name / company name comes up in a new post. 

So, instead of being old school and sending an email, I thought that I would post for all to see a note to David: 

David, fantastic keynote yesterday! Loved hearing the iPhone song - the video was great, but hearing it in person was a real treat.  

My question is this: since I’m sure you have told countless audiences that you use Google Alerts, has anyone ever pitched you by blog post? I can see advantages (only a moron would give a bad pitch for the world to see) and disadvantages (tons of alerts every day). Again, thanks for the presentation yesterday!