A Few Observations for June 7, 2013
Doug Haslam In lieu of a “real” blog post, some thoughts that leaked out of my ears: If you Tweet that people are “doing it wrong” – you’re doing it wrong People…
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On Nitpicks and Fun
Recently, the creator of the “gif” image format brought attention, while accepting a Webby Award, to the correct way to pronounce it, with a soft “g.” Many people, myself firmly…
A Prayer for Passive Aggressive Resistance
Often online, and especially in the social media marketing biz, people resort to what we like to call “passive-aggressiveness,” which I will oversimplify by defining it as crabbing about something…
Critics Gonna Crit – on Google Glass and other Silliness
Google Glass is coming out, and the early ambassadors have their copies. They look ridiculous- the glasses and the people wearing them – but that doesn’t stop the debate over…
The Problem with “Global” Social Media Statistics
You have heard them, you have seen them – the data that tells the “right day and time to Tweet,” best days for Facebook engagement, how many times a week…
On the Death of the QR Code
So, my good friend Aaron Strout, who knows a thing or two about location-based technology, declares the “death of the QR code.” I get it. That said, I am always…
What a Facebook “Like” Really Means
I know, you are probably expecting some sort of metrics-focused deep analysis of the value of a “Like” on Facebook or some other easily-debunked claim. No. Goodness no. I am…
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…
Real-Time Marketing vs Knee-Jerk Idiocy; a Guide for Smart People
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…
Post-Posterous: Incremental Tools and Obsolescence
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:…