Life Without Television Without Pity
I guess we’ll have to spoil the networks now. “Spare the Snark, Spoil the Networks.” That was the long-time slogan of “Television Without Pity,” a web site and community that,…
I guess we’ll have to spoil the networks now. “Spare the Snark, Spoil the Networks.” That was the long-time slogan of “Television Without Pity,” a web site and community that,…
I like to be grumpy online about things that bug me; however, I try to be fair and limit my (usually) good-natured condemnations to an element that bugs me, rather…
Social Media Club Boston held an excellent event* this past week at Northeastern University titled “The Myth, Money and Business Value of Viral Content.” The three presenters each brought his…
Last week, Social Media Breakfast Boston convened once again: this time at the office of Racepoint Group, for a discussion titled “The Evolution of PR, Marketing and Digital – What’s…
A few months ago, I attended a pair of events in Boston: BlogWell, in which several large brands presented case studies; and the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) Symposium,…
Every day, it seems, we see an example of a company, or an individual social media marketer, doing something dumb on the Internet.The cycle goes something like: Brand or person…
When people kvetch about getting “Generic” connection requests on LinkedIn, I tend to roll my eyes -and not just because I roll my eyes a lot. The “generic” appearance of…
Ok, first of all, the hyperbole of the post title is designed for attention. Perhaps my next post will be “This is Why People Hate Bloggers Who Write Hyperbolic Post…
In the near-decade since “live blogging” events has been a thing, there has been debate about its utility – those arguments tend to extend to attendees live-tweeting, leading to an…
I recounted this tale of horror on Google+ and Facebook recently. I wondered if I should put it on the blog- a few weeks later, the new “embed” functions on…