Instagram Licensing Your Photos? Here are Some They Can Use Now
Instagram, the popular app for making your crappy mobile photos look like, well, slightly less crappy photos, has the Internet up in arms with its recent announced change to its Terms of Service. In January, Instagram will begin reserving the right to license and profit from any of the photos you upload to Instagram and […]
Nobody Likes a Smartass, Unless It’s Apple
Have you ever received a traffic ticket you felt was underserved, and just wanted to serve the police officer a platter of snark? Apple doesn’t see why you can’t do that. The following is one of the snottiest public tweakings of a court of law I have seen, not that I go looking for this […]
Jerseys of the Pan-Mass Challenge
Last month, I completed my fifth Pan-Mass Challenge, riding my bike 170 miles over 2 days to raise money for the Jimmy Fund and fight cancer. As always, it was a well-run event, and despite the hot weather I loved every mile and biked well. As for the fundraising, a big thank you to everyone […]
#Social Media Breakfast Boston (#SMB29): Social for Sales & Business Growth
This past Friday I attended Boston’s 29th Social Media Breakfast: Social for Sales and Business Growth. First, I should mention that this month marked the fifth anniversary of the first-ever Social Media Breakfast, organized by Bryan Person. That first was simply a meetup, but was so well-attended it turned into a series with themes, speakers […]
Why I’m Not #positivelysocial and Why That’s OK
This past week, I saw a post from my friend Scott Monty (Social Media fella at Ford Motor) about the seeming incivility of the social web, and calling for people to be more positive. Great. He also referenced a post by Frank Eliason, (social media honcho at Citibank) more specifically calling for a #positivelysocial day […]
“Manage Multiple Content Streams Like Monster.com” at PRSA Digital Impact
The original version of this piece appeared in Voce Nation, the blog by Voce Communications, a Porter Novelli Company At PRSA’s Digital Impact Conference at the beginning of April, our (Voce’s) Monster.com client, Kathy O’Reilly, and I were honored to be asked to speak about how we manage Monster’s social media publishing program. The session, titled […]
PR Doesn’t Need To Be Objective – Just Ethical
There has been a lot of talk, much of it oblique, about public relations and objectivity- or the lack of it. Much of the most recent talk has stemmed from an active effort to relieve the long-time ban on corporate and agency PR agent participation in wikipedia edits, leading to a Facebook group started by […]
TEST POST I’m the Mayor of Voce’s Winter Haven Office
Checking me in? I don’t think so. I commit my own checkins. Word. Share Screen shot 2011-12-02 at 9.40.45 AM doughaslam Fri, Dec 02 2011 09:52:53 This is more like it Share I just ousted @whitneygonzalez as the mayor of Voce Communications on @foursquare! 4sq.com/mRQuG1 Doug Haslam Fri, Dec 02 2011 09:36:59 ReplyRetweet And […]
Don’t subscribe to my Posterous
I used it as a way to post easily via mobile, and a way-station for photos and other mobile content. It’s too easy to put stuff where I really want it now, so while I’m not cloosing this account I find it uch less useful, for now. So whatever you do, don’t subscribe. I mean, […]
Social Media: From Status to Stories, We’re Entering a Whole New World of Shiny
I am newly tempted to rename this blog “The Long View” because I find it painful to see people get whiplash as they turn to see the new shiny objects of social media whip by. I wonder if I get tagged as an angry nerd (ok, I have) for not being too quick to embrace […]