Doug Haslam
Gischeleman: "To Create With the Mind"
rant
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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The Internet of Flings: Taking Care With Buzzwords
Monday, December 17th, 2012
Having been in PR and social media for many years now, I have witnessed up close the love/hate relationship my profession has with buzzwords. I define “love” in this instance as “laziness,” of course. In my tech PR days, among the most reviled buzzwords were “solution,” “scalable” and “robust.” Here’s the thing about buzzwords: They originally [...]
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What is an Agency? Social Media and Corporate Voice
Saturday, November 17th, 2012
For the last 15 years, I have spent most of my working time with agencies (PR, social media, communications). While in the PR world it was expressly the job, or so I believed, to stay in the background and “make the client famous,” the agency/client relationship has been more than that. Let me back up [...]
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#FailingAgenda: Social Media Lessons From– a Social Media Screwup*
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
As a Twitter user, I have never been a huge fan of promoted hashtags. I get that it is a way to buy exposure and discussion around a topic or a brand, and I certainly get that Twitter deserves to try to make money, but I always found the anchor Tweet pinned to the top [...]
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The Busy Trap Trap, Productivity and Distractions. Solved
Monday, July 2nd, 2012
I decided I would refuse to be “too busy” to write this blog post… For a while, I have seen friends and others struggle with the Productivity Question: are they too distracted by email, Facebook, Twitter et al to actually get something done? As someone who likes to have 27 things going on at once (and [...]
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The Facebook Password Conundrum, or Why I Shouldn’t be an Eagle Scout
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
I have been reading lately about employers asking for job prospects’ (or even employees’) Facebook passwords as a part of the interview process. I’m not going to try to judge the legalities or ethical implications of all this, but I will put myself into the position of someone being asked to do so. What would [...]
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Social Media Top 5; Pinterest Copyright, PR Defined, More Infographic Atrocity
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Pinterest and the Copyright Bogeyman Pinterest has captured the hearts and minds of social media shiny-object navel-gazers. It’s great, it’s simple, it’s visual.. but back in January, I couldn’t help but wonder if there were copyright issues. Boy howdy were there. While I now wonder if the current hysteria over copyright protection on Pinterest is [...]
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Why Aren’t We Experimenting More?
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
If you bother to check out my blog regularly (thank you), you’ll notice a couple of odd posts recently. The first was in some ways an accident. Being a smartass, I decided to react to some random subscriptions to both of my Posterous blogs with a post telling people not to subscribe there. There’s no [...]
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Is “Social Business” Just a Buzzword? Oh, I Hope Not
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
My “Buzzword Radar” is oversensitive, honed over years in the PR profession, where the temptation to go the lazy route “”leading provider of robust, scalable solutions” was often too great (or driven by inexperienced managers and less sensitive clients) to resist. This is a great example of a web site from the 1st Internet bubble [...]
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Social Media Top 5: The Ten Deadly Plagues of Google Plus (aka Growing Pains)
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
Google Plus an Afterthought? I attended Exploring Social Media Boston last week (ok, Burlington is NOT Boston, but I hope the traveling speakers got a good tour of scenes where Paul Blart Mall Cop were shot). My thoughts on the overall event are here at the Voce Nation blog, but one thing that struck me… [...]
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