Of Tea Parties and Muddled Messaging
Doug Haslam The April 15 Tax Day tea parties were a great example of grass roots, viral organization to move thousands of people (whether you believe the reported attendance or not) to…
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Social Media Top 5; Rocky Mountain Low, Loic’s Nuclear Option, and What Beats Who
A Newspaper Goes Dark, with Dignity (?): The Rocky Mountain News produced its last edition Friday, after the sudden announcement that it would do so after the Scripps company was…
Social Media Top Five: Journalist POV, Incivility, and PR Agencies Really Doing Social Media?
Press Releases From a Journalist’s POV Daryl James, a former newspaper professional, lays out some very simple tips on what should go into a news release to get an editor’s…
Social Media Top 5: Goodbye Pownce, PR Still Not Dead, Mapple
Goodbye Pownce, We Hardly Knew Ye – Remember when people were begging and scrambling for beta invitations to Pownce? As a hardcore Twitter user, I did appreciate the differences that…
Blog Tag: What are you reading?
We all love blog tag! Ok, maybe we pretend we don’t sometimes, but we love being linked to, and we love sharing info about ourselves. So, I would like to…
A cool thing I have: the Dick Gregory Dollar
Some of the strangest random possessions have the best stories behind them. My wife grew up in Boston’s South End, her family moving in back in 1968. To get a…
Super Tuesday- My morning at the polls
Here’s a bit from my vote today in the Super Tuesday primary in Precinct 1, Newton, MA. I thought I would give a little “slice of the process” and see…
Are the candidates using MySpace and other social media well?
UPDATE: The article has appeared, and I was favored with a two-word direct quote, along with Scott Monty (zero words direct quote– ahem), and Steve Garfield, who actually said something…
BostonNOW– New daily paper talks to little old me…
If you are in the Boston metro area, you have probably heard of the launch in late April of BostonNOW, a free daily paper competing with the Boston Metro. The…