Social Media Top 5: Faces of Death
Doug Haslam 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…
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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…
SIPA Online: PR Stranger Wanders into the World of Publishers and ROI
This was originally published on the SHIFT Communications “Slice” Blog Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the SIPA (Specialized Information Publishers Association) Marketing Conference in gorgeous Miami Beach,…
Blog Experiment: Video Blog-Casting
Notice I didn’t call it podcasting? I’m not sure I want to set up a special feed for video subscriptions, but I am thinking about adding more video to the…
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…
Blog with Integrity Not a Shot at PR (in case you wondered)
When marketing blogger and fellow social media Bostonian Susan Getgood alerted me to “blog With Integrity,” (www.blogwithintegrity.com), I was intrigued, for a few reasons; There has been a lot of…
PodCamp Boston 4; Aging Gracefully
UDATE: Kara Brickman has a great summary of linkjs to PodCamp Boston 4 blog posts, photos and sessions,at http://karabrickman.com/2009/08/invasion-of-the-pod-tweeple/ As one of many folks who have attended all four Boston…
Social Media Top 5: Twankruptcy, Twitter DDoS, Paid Tweetups (You Bet!)
Scoble Declares Twankruptcy Let’s set aside for a moment the fact that some words shouldn’t be “Twitterized with a “tw” in front; by “twankruptcy” I am talking to something akin…
Social Media Top 5: WTF II, What is(n’t) PR, & Mom-Bloggers PR Boycott
What the F**k is Social Media (One Year Later): Last year at Podcamp Boston 3, the irrepressible Marta Kagan co-presented a presentation called “What the F**k is Social Media?” Now,…
Social Media Top (Five): How to Get Traffic Without Really Trying
How to Get Blog Traffic Without Really Trying: I often refer to this blog- along with my other social media ventures- as a lab. I want to see what works,…