Doug Haslam

After day 2 of the Dale Carnegie Leadership seminar, I’m getting lots of great knowledge. It’s also interesting to take this with a junior colleague, and will compare notes on our experiences. Most interesting thing today was seemingly small. During an exercise in which we each covered a sheet with post-its, then organize them by [...]

Spending a few days this week attending a Dale Carnegie leadership training seminar for work. This is a program the SHIFT management generally sends junior managers and managers-to-be to, but for a number of reasons I am attending this time around. I joined SHIFT as senior management, and my "coming up through the ranks" consisted [...]

I read a nice post by Geoff Livingston at www.livingstonbuzz.com yesterday on Internet fame. He went off on the idea of being popular for popularity’s sake, like current Wired cover girl Julia Allyson. I agree, but it obviously works for her. She has a goal and she’s reaching it. For those of us who use [...]

"There’s always room for pie." I’m sure that’s not the actual caption for this religious painting, but the ad-sticker placed on this newspaper photo creates an amusing context. Some accidental contexts may not be so amusing. Is there anything we can do to prevent them? Mobile post sent by DougH using Utterz.  Replies.  mp3 Tweet

Ever notice that if you stop something for a while, you do it even better when you pick it up? Sometimes you need a fresh perspective- and a little rest, whether you are brainstroming creative ideas, writing a document, or looking for your keys. I find the same effect occurs in physical activity. My bike [...]

Well, PodCamp Boston is over for another year. What did I learn? I found people were asking me more questions than in the past. Is that because I’ve been around? Perhaps, but what I can say is that it is nice for an SEO professional to be able to talk content and messages with a [...]

Day 1? PodCamp Boston 3 has gone in a whirl, to be honest. After helping the harder-working volunteers with registration, it was off to my part in a panel with Greg Verdino of crayon, Adam Broitman of Morpheus Media, and Philip Robertson of ooVoo, on "Smart Social Media Marketing." The time for the panel flew [...]