Doug Haslam

Gischeleman: "To Create With the Mind"

March, 2007

Which Comic Book Superhero are You?

This may not be the first time someone has asked this question, but with which comic book superhero do you most identify? I don’t mean what super power would you like to have (or do have), or who is your favorite hero, but what character in comic books have you ever come across and said, [...]

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Bum Rush the Charts Post-Factum: Who are your favorite indy musicians?

Several friends in the social media-sphere were rabid supporters of Bum Rush the Charts last Thursday, March 22, and I joined in. In short, BRTC was an effort to show that people could join together in a grass roots fashion to push an independent musician to the top of the iTunes charts. the song “Mine [...]

Posted in music, social media | 2 Comments »

Passport Pictures, and Knowing Your Audience

My wife had an experience today that reminded me that tailoring your content to your audience is always the best move. As a PR flak, blogger and podcaster, as well as an old-time radio guy, I live the maxim that knowing your audience is #1. She was not amused. You see, she had her passport [...]

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Zipper Comedy: Do Not Manipulate

Do Not Manipulate Originally uploaded by douglashaslam. I am scratching my head as to why this “Do Not Manipulate” tag is sewn into the fly of this pair of pants. Is this a message? For abstinence? Anti- “self-manipulation?” Do I need to buy five more pants to make a complete sentence, like the old Burma [...]

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New Podcast Up- PRobecast #008

Just posted Episode 8 of PRobecast, Topaz Partners’ weekly Tech PR podcast. This week’s panel, Tim Allik, Rob Capra and Doug Haslam, discuss: Opening notes– thanks to Sam Whitmore for the mention in his latest Media Survey podcast Listener comment — Bryan Person of Bryper.com and the New Comm Road podcast on Bum Rush the [...]

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Bum Rush the Charts TODAY

I have been following Bum Rush the Charts, a massive social media experiment– and the eventtakes place today, March 22. BRTC is an attempt to put an independent (non-major label) music artist in the iTunes Top 100 charts for one day, through word of mouth. Go to Christopher Penn’s site at: http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/bumrush to participate, which [...]

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Radio Days, Part 1

I used to work in public radio, and lately have been thinking about some of the things that happened while I was there. The stories are gradually coming back into mind: the opera singer who had a new dirty joke every night, the guy who mooned the Car Talk guys while they were on the [...]

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New podcast up…

Once again, cross-posting show notes for the PRobecast podcast with Tech PR Gems This week’s panel, Tim Allik, Adam Zand and Doug Haslam, discuss: Opening notes– a challenge to Bryan Person and Chip Griffin Google moves to make search archives anonymous, and announces it on the company blog State of the Media Report from the [...]

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Star Wars, Nothin’ But Star Wars…

A few years ago, there was a lot of talk about how Harry Potter books got kids into reading. True enough, but for my 9 year old son it is Nothin’ But Star Wars, and the dozens of novels it has spawned, from Boba Fett’s adventures to the “Last of the Jedi” tales and everything [...]

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Webkinz, or why I can’t get on my own PC at home

I am hardly the first person I know to blog about Webkinz, but I have been watching this grow into a craze over the last few months, with my son (23 Webkinz and counting) and his friends turned into Webkinz crazies. Being a moderately heavy Second Life user myself, it’s great to see virtual worlds [...]

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