Exit: Stage SHIFT, and the State of Public Relations
Doug Haslam First off, a piece of personal news: today marks my last day at SHIFT Communications. It has been a great ride and I am leaving some friends, particularly a great…
2009
Top 10 Posts for 2009
I’m not convinced you, as readers, care deeply what my top posts for the past year were– or what I consider to be the top posts. However, for reference, I…
Signal Flow and the Communications Chain
It is common to talk about problem solving as breaking down the problem into manageable chunks and tackling them one at a time. We apply this or similar methods based…
How My Social Media Use Changed in 2009
This summary is for the benefit of blog subscribers who might not see some of the gr eat content over at MediaBullseye.com. Please visit there for my full article with…
Winter texting hack.
Running gloves work w/ keyboard (these are from New Balance). Works pretty well. Posted via email from doughaslam’s posterous
Social Media Top 5: Faces of Death
I frequently tire of the “xxx is dead” statements that are cavalierly thrown about the social Web. Here are a few, real and imagined, that caught my eye lately, and…
Social Media Top 5: The Dearth of Privacy
Notice I didn’t say “death” of privacy. I still dislike it when people say something is “dead” when we know it isn’t. However, a number of things have been popping…
Personal Brand @ Work Panel
As a follow-up to my previous post on personal branding, I would like to ahare the first bit of the panel I was part of on December 9, at Dan…
Social Media Top 5: Personal Brand (Wait, Don’t Go)
I was thinking about the concept of “personal branding” quite a bit lately, thus this Social Media Top 5. I was invited to speak at one of Dan Schawbel‘s Personal…
Puzzling it Out
Putting together a very difficult jigsaw puzzle (pictured) with my family, I experienced a lot of the feelings, frustrations, despair and elation that I equate with many tasks, including those…