Doug Haslam

Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows I love keeping score and following shiny round numbers. I can also get quite competitive in my work if someone gets my back up. That said, I separate those fun bits from what really pushes us all forward; content and ideas, fueled by your community (community or content [...]

I am one of those people that likes to break rules, but also likes to have them in place first. Does that make me not so"free?" I don’t think so. Maybe I like editing over writing due to this. I think of it this way; even most improvisitory jazz musicians vamp over a predetermined set [...]

I love Mojo, a great British music monthly. Their monthly CDs are often a treat featuring new bands, summing up trend. or highlighting a rock star’s influences and favorites. But every once in a while, they unleash recreations of Beatle albums, comprised of cover versions, that are staggeringly awful. I mean, jam knitting needles into [...]

I had dinner with a friend last night I hadn’t seen in years. He is not involved in any way in tech, public relations or social media. But when I was explaining what I do and started talking about blogs, he said, unprovoked: "Do these companies realize that they no longer have control of their [...]

Like a lot of folks, I spend much time figuring out the best way to get to good content efficiently. As a public relations professional, I particularly seek out blogs that discuss my profession. RSS feeds? Great, and primary, but hard to keep up with. Contests for best PR blogs, like the current PRWeek contest? [...]

Just got back from a goodbye Tweet-up for Bryan Person, who is leaving Boston for Austin, Texas. Seems like a lot of Bostonians are moving there. Hmmm. How much does location matter? Not as much as it used to, though face-to-face is still best. Heard of the old toast "to absent friends?" We have more [...]