Doug Haslam

UPDATE: The event was a success, and while I don’t have an official total, we expect the Sports-a-Thon raised an amount in the “five figures.” Thanks to you blog readers for your part in the effort. I plan to post a separate update in the near future. I am writing this post to ask my [...]

I have been hearing about J.C. Hutchins’ “7th Son” thriller trilogy for a while, as the author has distributed his books, unconventionally, online via social media. Especially endearing to me, with my history in radio and audio drama productions, was that this was originally distributed as an audio book. I credit friends such as C.C. Chapman with [...]

The latest shiny object of communications I am hearing about is "hub and spoke," where spokes of communication are served by a central hub of content. I like the concept, in that it tries to justify another shiny object I have a hard time caring about; "lifestreaming." If the spokes serve diversified audience niches thru [...]

Just back from BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, and I have a few observations: A little history: three years ago, I attended the Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario, California, which has since merged with BlogWorld. It took place right after the very first PodCamp in Boston, and it seemed that the social media [...]

This week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Integrated Marketing Summit in Kansas City. First of all, thank you to Shawn Elledge and the crew for putting on a great event and being such gracious hosts. One thing that was refreshing about this event is that I was among a lot of new [...]

This post was originally published on Todd Defren’s blog, PR-Squared- Todd is Principal at SHIFT Communications, my employer One of the latest shiny objects, Google’s Sidewiki, intrigues me as a communications professional. Sidewiki, as Google says, lets you “contribute helpful information to any Web page.” Here’s a 1-minute video that describes the concept: One thing [...]

All of a sudden,  I’m hitting the conference circuit this autumn. Here is a summary of the upcoming events I will be at (and, I am flattered to say, speaking). While I don’t particularly care to toot my own, horn, this is the best place to keep all this information straight– and hopefully some of [...]