Archive for May, 2009
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 ...
Posted in Public Relations, social media, Social Media Top 5 | 9 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Public Relations, rant | 7 Comments »
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Posted in Pan-Mass Challenge | 4 Comments »
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.
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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 ...
Posted in Pan-Mass Challenge | 6 Comments »
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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