Archive for May, 2009

Social Media Top 5: Brian Solis Gives Me a Headache, Twitter Chat Advice, & Outside the Echo

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Getting Out of the Echo Chamber: My good friend Kyle Flaherty blogged recently about getting out of the social media "echo chamber," and the resultant decrease in his activity blogging and on Twitter. There has been a lot of talk about taking social media out of the "echo chamber" so everyone ...

PR Dead? Kill Dumb PR

Friday, May 29th, 2009

First, thanks to Shel Holtz for writing more extensively on this: http://bit.ly/shelsys. The "PR Is Dead" meme ironically lives quite heartily, but this article by Fuat Kircaali, founder of Sys-Con Media and a new service called Ulitzer, goes straight to the self-parody pile. While Shel's post fairly outlines the possible benefits ...

Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes #4: John Cass

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

This is an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. Please considering joining them by donating any amount to http://pmc.org/DH0159. I consider John Cass to be part of my "social ...

Limitations as Assets

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

This isn't about knowing your limitations, but about how they might be your secret weapons. I sincerely believe that limitations are assets in disguise. - A limited camera (as on a cell phone) takes its own kind of pictures, and accentuates your eye for lighting, distance and how things look from ...

Pan-Mass Challenge Training Update: First 50-Mile Ride

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

The weather has gotten better and the bike training has become more- well "intense" is not the word when you are having fun. And if I have not made it clear yet, I am having fun riding my bike, getting ready for the Pan-Mass Challenge, a two-day ride across Massachusetts ...

Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes #3: Shawn Ashe

Monday, May 25th, 2009

This is the third in an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. Please considering joining them by donating any amount to http://pmc.org/DH0159. [caption id="attachment_1305" align="alignright" width="320" caption="Wah-Tut-Ca Scout Reservation"][/caption]PMC ...

Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes 2: Ted McEnroe

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

This is the second in an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. Please considering joining them by donating any amount to http://pmc.org/DH0159. #2: Ted McEnroe Ted McEnroe is the Director ...

Pan-Mass Challenge Update: Zingin’ in the Rain

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

We have passed the one-third milestone in fundraising! We still have nearly $2,800 to go, though! Please help fight cancer by sponsoring me in the Pan-Mass Challenge: http://bit.ly/pmcdh. Pan-Mass Challenge bike training continues! Last weekend, I did my first back-to-back rides, important, as the PMC itself is a back-to-back affair, about ...

My Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes 1: Chip Griffin

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Preparing for my first Pan-Mass Challenge last year, I liked to say that I'm "just a guy riding a bike." I considered the people who reached into their wallets and went to the PMC site to pledge money to fight cancer- nearly 80 of them last year- to be the ...

Facing ‘Public Relations is Dead’

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Maybe it's not really the elephant in the room, but the "PR is Dead" theme came up at last night's Boston Media Makers gathering. Being the PR person present, I responded that PR is changing, not dead. My riff about the end of mass press release emails and PR ...