Doug Haslam

Gischeleman: "To Create With the Mind"

January, 2010

Social Media Top 5: iPad, Bloggers Aren’t Writers (?!), Valuable Content, Experts & Droid

Apple’s iPad It’s probably all been said about Apple’s iPad launch this past week, but I was particularly interested in the viewpoints of a few of my friends: Steve Garfield concentrates on the limitations imposed on the device. He comes from the standpoint of a heavy video consumer who would like flash, as well as [...]

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Veni, Vidi, Voce (I have Joined Voce Communications)

Today, I am very happy to announce that I have joined Voce Communications- specifically, I am with the Voce Connect business group, working on social media programs for a number of their big-ticket clients. Friends who have followed my job search know that I was looking for something that more explicitly draws on the social [...]

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(Not) Done with Dunbar’s Number

Yet again,

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Social Media Top 5: Creativity in Big Companies, Geo-Location Useful? and Learning Droid

B.L. Ochman on Big Companies and Creativity B.L. Ochman creates some of the most useful lists in the social media space. Her latest concentrates on the problems of big companies and why they don’t swiftly embrace creative endeavors like social media. To oversimplify things: bigger entities move more slowly. If you can break them down [...]

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Do Journalists Make Bad PR People?

I read this short piece, “The Great Journalism Exodus,” by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic. In it, he discusses the fact that many journalists are switching over to public relations jobs. That’s nothing new, but we’re definitely seeing more of it in this economy, and with the “traditional” media changing and shedding jobs in the [...]

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Dissecting the Personal Network

I have blogged already of the importance of having a network in place even when you are not actively seeking work. Another thought that has crossed my mind frequently is the actual makeup of a network. Every person has his or her role, no matter how many people make up the network. I actually see [...]

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Social Media Top 5: LaunchCamp & Other Events; Professional/Personal Split, Dangers of Press Releases

LaunchCamp in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 4 I’m proud to take part in the first LaunchCamp at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge (near MIT) on Feb. 4. There will be lots of resources and discussion on what entrepreneurs need to get their company off the ground, provided by a mix of entrepreneurs, VCs, media, [...]

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I’m Riding the Pan-Mass Challenge Again

This year, for the third year in a row, I’m riding the Pan-Mass Challenge. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, the PMC is a 2-day ride across Massachusetts that is the largest single fundraiser for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston (if you would like to sponsor my ride, my fundraising page is: [...]

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Careers and Inbound Marketing

Inbound marketing? What the heck does that have to do with the job market? Well, first a quick definition of inbound marketing from the Hubspot blog, in a post by Rick Burnes: Inbound Marketers flip outbound marketing on its head. Instead of interrupting people with television ads, they create videos that potential customers want to see. [...]

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Social Media Top 5: Is Seesmic the Machine That Goes “Ping?,” Plus Nozzl, Presslift & Suicide Machine

Seesmic Buys Ping.fm I prefer Seesmic Desktop to Tweetdeck as a PC Twitter client, just because I like it. One feature I love is the ability to choose to direct a post to Twitter or Facebook, or both, or even to multiple accounts. It’s also something I like about Posterous, which lets me direct posts [...]

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