Archive for the ‘rant’ Category

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google Plus: I Thought I Told You All to be Patient

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Flickr Photo by merwing✿little dear"][/caption] A few weeks ago, I wrote over on the Voce Nation blog, pleading for patience regarding the new Google Plus social network; patience from users, businesses, social media marketers and Google itself. It seems that everyone but Google failed to listen to me. ...

Social Media Top 5: Through Being Awesome, Content Quality & My Checkins Are Interesting

Monday, June 20th, 2011

One: OK, You're Awesome- Now Get to Work We hear a lot in the social media world about being "awesome." some of the people who espouse this are great friends, others are simply well-known within our little industry. I'm all for building up our confidence with supportive epithets like this, ...

The Iconoclast’s Guide to Social Media

Monday, March 21st, 2011

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What Made Me Your Audience?

Monday, February 14th, 2011

This post originally appeared on Voce Communications' Voce Nation blog. One of the things that frustrates me most about being in the social media bubble is the fact that we all (social media marketing, PR, and other folks) seem to be each other's audience; reading each other's blogs, books, Tweets ...

Generic Stock Photos and Clip Art- Stop the Blandness!

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

First, a note- I often worry that blogging more about things that bother me rather than fluffier posts about life and marketing will make me look like an old crank. I stopped worrying about that- as long as I'm providing a solution, such posts have value to some people, I ...