Social Media Top 5: April Fools Party Pooper
Doug Haslam April Fools? Bah, Humbug! for some reason I got all kinds of grumpy this year during April Fool’s day. Traditionally, companies and publications put out all kind of fake announcements.…
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Social Media Top Five: SXSW Edition (or Not), and Happy Birthday Internet!
It’s South by Southwest Interactive this weekend, since everybody’s attention span is shortened by imbibing in too much, um, Internet knowledge, I will keep things short this week. ******** First,…
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…
Pan-Mass Challenge Update: Feb 15, 2009
The Pan-Mass Challenge is still more than five months away, but I have had an eventful couple of weeks in preparation. Fundraising is Off to a Great Start: Thanks to…
Social Media Top 5: Twestival, Can Twitter be Digg, and Pulver Pokes
Twestival: I had been hearing quite a bit about Charity:Water over the last few months, from a semi-mysterious mailed invitation to a New York fundraiser party in December (I got…
Social Media Top 5: It’s Not About You, Mr. Journalist, and Blogging is Not a Business Requirement
What Really Needs to Change? How about journalists making themselves the story (and for the purposes of this column, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is a journalist)? Dating back to my…
Social Media Top 5: Buffering Obama, Lazy Readers, & PR No-Brainers
Has Obama broken a social media promise? – I have been very skeptical of the idea that President Obama’s will be a “social media” administration. Federal government seems to me…
Social Media Top 5; Lyons, Newbies and Email
The New York Times‘ David Pogue posts Twitter Tips for Beginners: A great common-sense starter guide for the bewildered Twitter newcomer. What’s hilarious is that Poguue was berated by some…
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…