Doug Haslam
Gischeleman: "To Create With the Mind"
May, 2009
PR Dead? Kill Dumb PR
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 of the Ulitzer service, [...]
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Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes #4: John Cass
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 media” network of friends, [...]
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Limitations as Assets
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 a distance. This photo [...]
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Pan-Mass Challenge Training Update: First 50-Mile Ride
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 to raise money for the [...]
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Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes #3: Shawn Ashe
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. PMC Heroes #3: Shawn Ashe This year, I have seen far [...]
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Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes 2: Ted McEnroe
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 of Digital Media [...]
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Pan-Mass Challenge Update: Zingin’ in the Rain
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 80 miles each day [...]
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My Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes 1: Chip Griffin
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 real heroes of my “team.” [...]
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Facing ‘Public Relations is Dead’
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 not being only media relations, is [...]
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