Doug Haslam

For this Social Media Top 5 (now an occasional feature of this blog, apparently), I noticed some articles (the first three on this last) that seemingly posed some absolutes. Of course, once you read any blog post in the marketing workd, extremism is rarely the truth, and that goes here. Curation vs Original Content: Not [...]

The Case for Google Plus Still Missing the Most Important Thing (People) Well-known tech evangelist Guy Kawasaki recently published an article in MarketingProfs called “Why I Love Google+” (interesting that the URL generated by the post title cannot include the “+” – I wonder if that affects the article’s SEO? I know, that’s more amusing [...]

PR People -  YOU Are Not the Story I already pushed this link by Danny Brown out on my various social networks, but it is a topic that hits home for any PR practitioner. While I’m sure Danny is thinking in part about PR folks who get big britches from blogging and Tweeting and suddenly have a [...]

in my cynical, skeptical way, I have spent the last several months heaping doubt and scorn on Pinterest and Instagram, mainly as a hedge against the people who seem too excited about either of these being the “next big thing.” I have, some of you will like to hear, since started truly enjoying these services. [...]

1) Don’t Kill All the Lawyers I enjoyed this short piece on managers and lawyers by Ted Weisman of Lois Paul and Partners. The truth is, between bigger brand with their own established standards and practices getting better at social media, and regulations piling up, having to deal with lawyers – not stonewalling, avoiding or [...]

Yeah, nobody’s reading this fresh because everybody’s at SXSW Interactive, right? Except those that aren’t. “Humanize” – Rush to Publish Causes Confusion The fact that publishing tools are plentiful and easy to use does not excuse mistakes made in the rush to publish- though it does cause them. On the other hand, the self-correcting nature of social media is [...]

Pet Peeves: Washington Post Facebook App Recently I noticed in my Facebook timeline (yeah, i look at that) a lot of links to interesting stories with the “Washington Post” logo on them. Trusted news source, so why not click? Being greeted with a pop-up asking me to grant a Facebook app permission just so I [...]

I spoke on a few current social media topics on my monthly appearance on Media Bullseye Radio this week. I thought I would throw a few more thoughts out there. The overall theme seems to be that people judge too quickly and rely too deeply on things they don’t understand. Snap Judgment: Chapstick on Facebook [...]