Archive for March, 2010

Social Media Top 5: March Madness- Twitter Not Relevant? Social Media Productive? I’m Using Buzz?

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Twitter less relevant? Justin Kownacki pointed me to this post by Jeff Pulver noting that the increasing use of geo-location social tools like Foursquare and Gowalla have made Twitter instantly a little less relevant. While I see the point tht the "I'm here now" Twitter messages by the heavy-user social media crowd have ...

Social Media Top 5: Bloggers Don’t Care if You’re PR, Accent-u-ate the Negative, & the Need for Community Managers

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Do Bloggers Understand the Differences Between PR and Advertising? Should They (Will They) Care? Jason Falls brings up in a post the notion that bloggers don't understand the difference between PR and advertising, highlighted by the fact that some bloggers, when pitched by PR, ask for, in essence, a "pay for ...

In Praise of the Mundane; Tell Me About Your Sandwich

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Listen! via AudioBoo Posted via web from doughaslam's posterous

Pan-Mass Challenge Update: So What’s New?

Monday, March 15th, 2010

It has been a while since I posted here about my efforts as a participant in the Pan-Mass Challenge, an annual two-day ride to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. These pre-spring weeks can be tough, in that it is not yet warm enough or light enough for me ...

Social Media Top 5: Verdict on SXSW, Twitter Influencers Tell All, 5 Reasons to Stop Blocking

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

SXSW: Geek Spring Break or Great Business Opportunity? I debated whether or not writing something about SXSW Interactive was even relevant for me, but then realized a lot of the people that read this blog are at the conference as I write this. The most-asked question about SXSWi is, is it ...

I would like to continue publishing audio blog posts, as I used to do with Utterli. Audioboo, paired with Posterous, represents a chance to do that easily once again, and in even better quality. here’s to more audio!

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Listen! via AudioBoo Posted via web from doughaslam's posterous

A Rock in the Pond (You’re Gonna Get Ripples)

Monday, March 8th, 2010

While putting together some points regarding corporate use of social media, the phrase "giving a s***" entered my head, rather than the social media bromides so many of us throw into documents. As I often do, I threw out my unusable phrase in case I entertained anyone, and it turns ...

Social Media Top 5: Redefining Nice Guys, Facebook URL Fad, and the Social Media Playlist

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="360" caption="Flickr Photo by davidking"][/caption] Facebook URLs in Ads- The "New Way" or Fad? Edelman's Steve Rubel points out the emerging trend of companies adding Facebook fan page URLS to their advertising, and raises the question, are the  on-domain URLS dying in terms of advertising. Steve seems to doubt it, and ...