Doug Haslam

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Social Media Top 5; Rocky Mountain Low, Loic’s Nuclear Option, and What Beats Who

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

A Newspaper Goes Dark, with Dignity (?): The Rocky Mountain News produced its last edition Friday, after the sudden announcement that it would do so after the Scripps company was unable to find a buyer. Is this the beginning of the real end for print newspapers? I’ll defer to true experts in the field, but [...]

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Social Media Top Five: Journalist POV, Incivility, and PR Agencies Really Doing Social Media?

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Press Releases From a Journalist’s POV Daryl James, a former newspaper professional, lays out some very simple tips on what should go into a news release to get an editor’s or reporter’s attention. Some of them are beyond common sense, but always worth repeating. Setting aside the fact that the fixation on the news release [...]

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Social Media Top 5: Twestival, Can Twitter be Digg, and Pulver Pokes

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Twestival: I had been hearing quite a bit about Charity:Water over the last few months, from a semi-mysterious mailed invitation to a New York fundraiser party in December (I got thrown off by the lack of social media context) to my good friend Laura Fitton’s fundraising via TipJoy and Twitter. OK, I get it- a [...]

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Social Media Top 5: It’s Not About You, Mr. Journalist, and Blogging is Not a Business Requirement

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

What Really Needs to Change? How about journalists making themselves the story (and for the purposes of this column, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is a journalist)? Dating back to my time in journalism, it has always irked me when journalists make themselves part of the story. I want a publication to report on whatever their [...]

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Social Media Top 5: Buffering Obama, Lazy Readers, & PR No-Brainers

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Has Obama broken a social media promise? – I have been very skeptical of the idea that President Obama’s will be a “social media” administration. Federal government seems to me the last fortress against transparency and interactivity- at least where it comes to adopting new methods- not to mention there are a lot of things [...]

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Uttercast: Do Taglines Matter?

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Do taglines matter? They’re supposed to convey the company or product meaning in a snappy few words. But do the audiences care? Forrester Research’s Jeremiah Owyang (http://web-strategist.com/blog) has done something fun on this topic: he set up a quiz (the quix has since been closed) inviting people to identify the companies in the social media [...]

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Uttercast: Relationship vs. Value in PR

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Last night I took part in a chat among journalists, bloggers & PR flacks, called "journchat." For summaries of these Monday talks, use Twitter Search for"journchat" or go to http://journchat.info/. There was too much to follow, but one discussion I took part in was one about PR relationships with journalists. I have ranted about "rolodex [...]

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Social Media Top 5: Goodbye Pownce, PR Still Not Dead, Mapple

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Goodbye Pownce, We Hardly Knew Ye – Remember when people were begging and scrambling for beta invitations to Pownce? As a hardcore Twitter user, I did appreciate the differences that the Pownce service presented: threaded conversation, the ability to share small files. But the core application was still quick, short communications- and Pownce never seemed [...]

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Social Media Top Five: Monty Python, Personal Branding, Ghost-Blogging…

Friday, November 21st, 2008

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em – and make ‘em laugh until they buy your stuff. More entertainment companies should follow this “treat your customers with respect and trust your product” direction. The Monty Python Troupe have put a number of popular television and movie clips up on YouTube and winkingly acknowledged the “Theft” [...]

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Dan Lyons and the Yahoo! PR Flap: Lying?

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Let’s forget about the fact that Dan Lyons is apparently retiring his personal blog, “The Real Dan Lyons.” Let’s forget that Newsweek apparently made him take down his post about his frustration with the Yahoo! PR people and what they said about CEO Jerry Yang (not) stepping down prior to it actually happening. Let’s forget [...]

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