Pay for Twitter? Of Course!
Doug Haslam Back in early 2008, I participated in a Social Media Breakfast in Boston about Twitter. Actually, the title was half tongue-in-cheek, half serious: “How Twitter Changed My Life.” One of…
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Exit: Stage SHIFT, and the State of Public Relations
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…
Social Media Top 5: Goodbye, D*****bags
BusinessWeek Editorial Layoffs; Just…Sad Let’s pretend that Bloomberg has a master plan for a leaner, stronger, BusinessWeek after buying the troubled magazine recently. They probably do, right? It still boggled…
Social Media Top 5: I Am Smart and Handsome and My Cat is Adorable
Well, It’s official- Social Media is For Narcissists. That’s according to a study called The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement produced by San Diego State University and…
PR Dead? Kill Dumb PR
First, thanks to Shel Holtz for writing more extensively on this: http://bit.ly/shelsys. The "PR Is Dead" meme ironically lives quite heartily, but this article by Fuat Kircaali, founder of Sys-Con…
Two Sides of Customer Service
How far should a company go to keep its customers? It actually doesn’t take very much. Take Comcast for instance. all they have to do is listen and nip problems…
Social Media Top 5: “Concentrate” (Not a New Year’s Post)
I promised with heart crossed, swore up and down, and insisted to the edge of embarrassment that I would not do one of those “year end” posts, where I either…
PodCamp Boston 3: “Smart Social Media Marketing”
For PodCamp Boston 3, I was fortunate to be invited to sit on a panel with crayon‘s Greg Verdino, Morpheus Media’s Adam Broitman (pictured below, with me, as a make-good…
Evening commute rant-ish
Pic is kinda random- from this morning. sorry if you get this twuce via Twitter, I messed up. Mobile post sent by DougH using Utterz. Replies.
Must you dine at the mall during the holidays?
This what enforce shopping – e.g., Christmas – does to the human condition. A few tricks to having lunch at the mall during December, if you must: 1. Be willing…