Social Media Top 5: I Have Fallen Out of Favor (sniff)
Doug Haslam 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…
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Uttercast: Brand is a Funny Thing
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…
Uttercast: Target Practice
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…
Uttercast: Season
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…
Uttercast: Reflections?
After hearing Aaron Strout (@astrout) talk about his birthday and what amounted, in a way, to "social media reflections" in an Utterli post, I wondered: do we capture our learnings…
Social Media Top 5: Watch Your Tweets, Unconference, & Personal Brand for #$@%@s
time a for another weekly batch of observations related to social media: How cavalier are you about what you put on the Internet? Do you discuss politics on Twitter? Boy…
Uttercast: MassTLC; Outside the Comfort Zone
Those of us in social media groups talk a lot about how important face to face is. An important adjunct is to get out of our regular groups as well.…
Uttercast: Old Media Comforts
Admit it. You don’t just get nostalgic for "old" media. You still use it. Yes, your daily routine probably incorprates blogs, podcasts, social networks and other "new" media sources, but…
Social Media Best Practices: Just Do It (Chris Brogan is Not Smarter than You)
I’m not going to lie. “Meme-tag” – when bloggers write about a particular topic, then “tag” several others to do the same – is fun, at least until it comes…
Uttercast: You’re Surrounded
I often remind myself that we are products of our surroundings, and we solve our problems and generate our ideas based on our surroundings. The risk is getting stale. How…