Doug Haslam

Gischeleman: "To Create With the Mind"

May, 2007

Are the candidates using MySpace and other social media well?

UPDATE: The article has appeared, and I was favored with a two-word direct quote, along with Scott Monty (zero words direct quote– ahem), and Steve Garfield, who actually said something worth quoting…. UPDATE II: See this exchange between C.C. Chapman and the Edwards campaign. a combination of social media outreach initiative and response to constructive [...]

Posted in politics, social media | 11 Comments »

BostonNOW– New daily paper talks to little old me…

If you are in the Boston metro area, you have probably heard of the launch in late April of BostonNOW, a free daily paper competing with the Boston Metro. The big difference is that the paper is taking contributions from citizen journalists. In fact, I know my friend and fellow blogorrhea sufferer C.C. Chapman has [...]

Posted in politics, social media | 1 Comment »

That summer camp you went to: what if they wrote a book about it?

*Edited to bump the Key Foundation URL to buy the book Speaking of keeping up connections, and nurturing relationships: Many of you have a summer camp or other institution you went to as a child, youth, or young adult; for me, it was Wah-Tut-Ca Scout Reservation in Northwood, New Hampshire. I was fortunate that the [...]

Posted in 9/11, books, boy scouts | 4 Comments »

Summer of Love, 40 years on: Will we do it again?

My thoughts on this are not completely formed, but I am throwing this out there to see what comments I get. In today’s Sunday New York Times Arts section was a huge story on the Summer of Love– 1967 (login required). The article outlined how reenactments and celebrations will largely be of the top-down variety, [...]

Posted in music | 1 Comment »

“Life, with Cancer” Columnist Lauren Terrazzano, 1968-2007

When someone you know dies, it is natural to make it about you–how well you know the person, what you talked about, what you did with them. All I will do here is say I wish I had known Lauren Terrazzano better than I had. I certainly should have. By the time we graduated, I [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | 9 Comments »

New Podcast Up: PRobecast 16: Apple/Engadget, Diversity, Preakness pick

Just posted episode 16 of PRobecast, Topaz Partners’ weekly PR-related podcast [splashcast VBMB8367UC] This week, Adam Zand and I discuss: Engadget runs with a bad tip that affects Apple‘s stock price. Are we ready to hold new media to old media standards? Adam attended the Advertising, Marketing & PR Industry Diversity Job Fair and Leadership [...]

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Tube your Mom for Mother’s Day

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyRKTpIfcfo] Work projects should always be this much fun. This video is part of a project to promote the Tubes file sharing software as a last-minute Mother’s Day gift. I think the Mom is letting the son off easy; she had plenty of room to lay on a big fat guilt trip before enjoying the [...]

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New Podcast: PRobecast #14: Splashcast, PC World, Umbria, Digg and more

This week’s episode 14 of the podcast I help produce, PRobecast from Topaz Partners is up. [splashcast VBMB8367UC CONJ1736AG] This week’s panel, Tim Allik, Doug Haslam and Rob Capra, discuss: PR Newswire and Umbria team up to bring blog tracking to wire service customers PC World‘s editor in chief resigns. Is advertiser influence on editorial [...]

Posted in social media | 1 Comment »

Zombie Attack; a new way to tell a story online

One of the joys of following Twitter has been following the Zombie Attack storyline. Twitter has actually spawned a new form of storytelling. Well, maybe it’s not completely new- I have no idea– but it’s an ingenious use of the new medium to keep our attention and actually be eager to see what the next [...]

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