January | 2013 | Doug Haslam

January, 2013

Less Grumpy About Vine, Google Plus & Social Business (But Still Grumpy)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

I like being a curmudgeon. How much? This much: When new ideas, phrases, and tools come out in the social media world, I am not normally the first to jump aboard. In fact, the more people who get out their pompons and cheer the latest unproven tool or idea, the grumpier I get. That doesn’t [...]

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Living with Lawyers; Legal Hurdles in Corporate Social Media

Friday, January 25th, 2013

It’s popular – and way too easy – in public relations and social media to say that lawyers get in the way of everything. When preparing announcements, we dread the legal review because it holds up the process, and potentially takes the fun out of what we want to do because – what? – it [...]

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Lance Armstrong & Livestrong: On Being Prepared to Lose Your Spokesperson

Monday, January 21st, 2013

The Web is awash in stories and speculation about Lance Armstrong, his use of performance-enhancing drugs, and what that meant – and means – for the sport of cycling. I’m beyond caring about the cycling aspect, as it seems that abuse of illegal substances was rife, and the sport, I can only hope, is running [...]

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Pan-Mass Challenge 2012 Fundraising Review

Monday, January 14th, 2013

Last summer, I rode in my fifth Pan-Mass Challenge. This two-day ride to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has been the centerpiece of my summer since 2008. At first, it was an excuse to do more cycling, get more fit, and benefit a worthy cause in the process. As the years went [...]

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My Career is Not a “Game”

Monday, January 7th, 2013

Well, that tears it. People are writing about “Social HR” now, as if it’s a thing. The problem is, people are attaching that term to dead-ends like “gamification” of the job process, the “death of the resume” and using Klout scores and other such nonsense to weed out candidates. The article at Forbes linked above [...]

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Don’t be a Knee-Jerk: On Quitting Instagram, Feedburner, & Other Rash Decisions

Thursday, January 3rd, 2013

Are you a quitter? I don’t mean the kind of quitter who gives up because something is too hard, but the kind who quits an online service in a huff over a perceived piece of bad news or policy. It seems a lot of people, including several friends, have made rash decisions to quit services [...]

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