Uttercast: Obsessed with Numbers
Doug Haslam I finally filled the gas tank on my car for the first time, and- wow! It feels good to pay $20 for a fill-up, but still only gas up as…
October 2008
Embargoes in the New Age of Public Relations (Not Dead Yet)
12/17/08 UPDATE: With Michael Arrington at TechCrunch deciding not to honor embargoes anymore, I have been bringing up this example as how a good embargo can work– and why. ************************…
Uttercast: Holding on to stuff
when I registered my new car, for some reason I didn’t transfer my old license plate. I was attached to the plate, which I have had for nearly 20 years,…
Uttercast: My #twitspiration
Scott Monty (@scottmonty) hipped me to a meme he is spreading called "#twitspiration"- who got you on Twitter? My story won’t fit in 140 caracters, so I’m putting it here.…
Uttercast: Directing Traffic, or “Moderation in Anything”
I had the honor and pleasure last week to moderate a panel on "Leveraging Social Media for Business, with Aaron Strout, who has just left Mzinga (and will be starting…
Social Media Top 5: The Scarlet Letter B
Time again for a “Social Media Top 5” roundup of items and issues I found interesting– if you do also, feel free to comment: The Next Step in the Mainstreamification…
Uttercast; It’s All About Me!
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…
Uttercast: Origin Story
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…
Uttercast: Fasten Your Seatbelts
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…
Social Media Top 5; 10 Years in Public Relations
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…