Coming to Grips with the Death of Google Reader
As a long-time user of Google Reader to manage the feeds of the blogs and other online publications I read and am interested in, I was understandably among those up…
As a long-time user of Google Reader to manage the feeds of the blogs and other online publications I read and am interested in, I was understandably among those up…
We are hearing a lot lately about “real-time marketing” in social media. The most-cited example is Oreo jumping on the Superdome blackout during this year’s Super Bowl with the “You…
Not convinced that you should own your own content, somewhere, somehow? Did you use Posterous as our content platform because it was easy? Just recently, Posterous went and did it:…
I have read about people taking breaks from social media. Pew Internet has even tried to make it a trend, pointing out the significant percentage of users who have taken…
We see a lot of studies and “research” in the world of social media. What is the most popular social network? What is the best time of day to Tweet?…
I like being a curmudgeon. How much? This much: When new ideas, phrases, and tools come out in the social media world, I am not normally the first to jump…
It’s popular – and way too easy – in public relations and social media to say that lawyers get in the way of everything. When preparing announcements, we dread the…
The Web is awash in stories and speculation about Lance Armstrong, his use of performance-enhancing drugs, and what that meant – and means – for the sport of cycling. I’m…
Last summer, I rode in my fifth Pan-Mass Challenge. This two-day ride to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has been the centerpiece of my summer since 2008.…
Well, that tears it. People are writing about “Social HR” now, as if it’s a thing. The problem is, people are attaching that term to dead-ends like “gamification” of the…