My Top Five*: Mr. Blue Sky to You
Doug Haslam Time for another of my irregular (*in more ways than one) posts on the world of communications: Blue Sky? Are We Doing This Again? There was a time when it…
My Top 5: So, We’re Still Debating Press Releases….
Five-ish things for professional communicators right now… Are We Really Still Debating the Press Release? It seems only yesterday (almost 19 years ago!), when Tom Foremski’s blog post “Die! Press…
My Top 5: Now I’ve Seen Everything
I first came to know Josh Bernoff in his days as an analyst for Forrester Research; since then, he has made a business of helping authors and generally dispensing great…
Notes from a PRSA Event: AI and PR: Sparking Curiosity, Removing Fear
This past week, I had the pleasure of attending the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Yankee Chapter’s event, “AI and PR: Sparking Curiosity, Removing Fear,” hosted at the Nackey…
My Top 5: Yeah, I’m Writing About AI. It’s OK!
AI and PR Measurement For at least the last five years, I have viewed artificial intelligence through the lens of practical applications. Back then, AI conjured fears of robots taking…
My Top 5 (OK, 2): PR Students Doing Good, Ad Professionals Doing…Well….
I’ll still call these posts “Top 5” even though I’m only doing two. I’m easing back into it, plus I want to keep things humanely brief. One of these items…
I Guess I’m Offically Funny Now?
Since the last time I published here regularly, I took up the hobby of submitting entries in the New Yorker‘s Cartoon Caption Contest. Recently, I won it – for the…
My Top 5: The Return to Blogging
Content creation can be a strange thing; since the spread of social media (jeez, that phrasing makes it sound pandemic-adjacent), it has been easy to use blogs and other platforms…
My Top 5: Gone-gle+, I’m on a List, and Astroweeding
Google+, We Hardly Knew (What To Do With) Ye That disturbance in the Force you felt last week was the sound of thousands (millions?) of dormant Google+ accounts crying out,…
My Top 5: Yes, MySpace Still Exists (oh, wait…)
Whoops MySpace For how many years have I and several other industry colleagues stressed the importance of owning your content, and that storing them on someone else’s platform isn’t good…