Doug Haslam

Gischeleman: "To Create With the Mind"

August, 2009

Social Media Top 5: I Am Smart and Handsome and My Cat is Adorable

Well, It’s official- Social Media is For Narcissists. That’s according to a study called The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement produced by San Diego State University and Youth Pulse. As far as I can tell, the study is some sort of knock on Genreation Y being self-centered. What about Generation X? I [...]

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Owning Your Crap & Mob Rules

Seems that when the URL shortener tr.im went down briefly, coupled with guesses that Facebook might shut down the main FriendFeed site, all of a sudden people are worried that content they put on the web might disappear. I have always been a pack rat. I like owning my stuff, and though I could be [...]

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Social Media Top 5: PR on PR Crime, Pointless Babble, and Jets on Twitter

When Bad PR Happens to Good PR People… …well, watch out below. It seems an email listserv goof-up prompted a comedy of Reply-Alls followed by a flurry of blog posts ranging from angry to thoughtful (or thoughtfully angry, or cynically tolerant, or….).  All the PR folks wanted to do was promote an e-book about social [...]

Posted in Social Media Top 5, Uncategorized | 10 Comments »

What Good Are Social Media Books if You Know Social Media?

There seems to be a lot of social media-themed books out lately written by people I know- with more to come. The fact that I know many of these authors is a salient point- I buy the books to support my friends, but as a rule I don’t get much out of them. Here’s the [...]

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Social Media Top 5: Madness! Ethical PR? How to Follow 10,000? PR in Charge of Social Media?

PR People “Surprisingly” Ethical First of all, to whoever wrote that headline. I have a “headline writer” prize for you. I hid it in a dark alley downtown, you just need to go pick it up. Seriously, I agree with Jeremy Pepper;only the PR industry could take some good news about itself and take a [...]

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Blog with Integrity Not a Shot at PR (in case you wondered)

When marketing blogger and fellow social media Bostonian Susan Getgood alerted me to “blog With Integrity,” (www.blogwithintegrity.com), I was intrigued, for a few reasons; There has been a lot of talk among bloggers (especially but not limited to  “Mommy Bloggers”), about attempts by the government to regulate sponsored blog posts. an “Integrity” badge nominally serves [...]

Posted in Public Relations, social media | 12 Comments »

PodCamp Boston 4; Aging Gracefully

UDATE: Kara Brickman has a great summary of linkjs to PodCamp Boston 4 blog posts, photos and sessions,at http://karabrickman.com/2009/08/invasion-of-the-pod-tweeple/ As one of many folks who have attended all four Boston PodCamps going back to 2006, it has been interesting to see this event grow- maybe mature is a better word.* From the excitement of a [...]

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Social Media Top 5: Twankruptcy, Twitter DDoS, Paid Tweetups (You Bet!)

Scoble Declares Twankruptcy Let’s set aside for a moment the fact that some words shouldn’t be “Twitterized with a “tw” in front; by “twankruptcy” I am talking to something akin to “RSS bankruptcy” or “inbox bankruptcy” where people xapp all their unread items because there are simply too many. Well, Robert Scoble did that to [...]

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Pan-Mass Challenge 2009: A Rider’s Eye View

Well, I did it. We did it. The Pan-Mass Challenge is over, and this, my second time riding in the event, was a fantastic time. First of all, a huge thank you to all of you who supported me- not just the financial sponsors, though that is the big part without which we cannot fight [...]

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Your Domain Your Rules?

I was intrigued by Mitch Joel’s wondering aloud whether he should stop allowing comments on his blog (http://tinyurl.com/njp622). Ironically, several of the comments in that post led him to rethink his "grumpiness" (as characterized by my boss, Todd Defren). Subtext to marketing folks is the blog of Seth Godin, who doesn’t allow comments because, well, [...]

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