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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Time for TikTok? I don’t typically get over-excited about new social platforms, but I do check them out when I can. Thanks to a prod from Shel Holtz of the…
I have decided, with encouragement by Very Smart People, to lay down my fundamentals for professional communicators. After <redacted> years in the industry, I find it helpful to myself- and…
I am back with my marketing and PR Top 5, which this time around is 3 (sorry, no refunds): Another “Stories” Feature? But Wait, I Have Thoughts About Pandora Stories…
This past summer, I rode in my 11th Pan-Mass Challenge, an annual 2-day ride to fight cancer for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Every year, I take a look at my…
My weekly thoughts on communications, marketing and social media, published weakly. Why You No Blog? Nobody actually asks me this, but it’s time for me to exercise my blogging muscles…
April Fool’s Is Just Around the Co… Wait, No. Some brands and marketers just can’t wait to do some sort of gee-whiz fun prank online on April Fool’s Day. Too…