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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
My friend Scott Monty posted this week (http://www.scottmonty.com/…media.html) about how a lot of people post too much about themselves. I agree that blogging and other social media are narcissistic exercises in which we frequently talk about ourselves and stroke our egos. The post made me ask if I post too ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Going through boxes in the basement, I came across some of my old Boy Scout stuff. Most significant were a bunch of patches from the Order of the Arrow, a fraternity of sorts within the Scouts.
Why? For the better part of a decade, I was on the Shows staff ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Watching the financial markets over the past few weeks, it is easy for those of us who lived through the Internet bubble burst in 2001 to think "here we go again." It is also evident that this financial crisis does not come from the same place, though. Will things ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
It occurred to me this past week that it was my 10th anniversary in public relations. After about a decade in public radio as an announcer, on-air tech, director and producer, I decided to move into a related communications profession to stretch my talents a bit and create- hopefully- an ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
I had the pleasure yesterday of attending the New Marketing Summit (www.gonewmarketing.com). One of the presentations that hit a chord with me was by Chris Penn (www.christopherspenn.com), a friend and a founder of PodCamp. His message? This "new media" is not based on anything new. Newspapers rule web traffic, ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
I like to know how things work. I would love to take things apart and put them together again, to get a better understanding of what makes them tick. Of course, any of you who caught my messages during my recent Wordpress upgrade for the blog knows that can be ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
time for another Social Media Top 5. I noticed two things after compiling this: refreshingly, no mention of the financial crisis (yet), and I haven't been making stuff up so much lately (that alright with everyone?).
"Unofficial Top 50 Tweeples to Follow" announced, and who is NOT on the list? I ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Two thoughts on this dark (sorry) photo of a popular English pudding (it's a pudding, correct?):
1- yes, the US and UK are two nations separated by a common language (pop quiz- whose quote is that?). The 13-year-old in my wants to make a hundred jokes on the name of this ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
I always wondered how people expected their flyers posted on telephone poles to stand out. Look at all the staples on the pole in this picture. So many messages in one place!
Do they work? This pole is in a schoolyard so school events and local yard sales and church fairs ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Fall is my favorite season. Living in New England, I think Autumn weather is the best. The first nip of cold, like this morning's frosty air, is not depressing to me but invigorating. To me Fall is more a time of renewal than Spring, because school is back. the ...
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