Control Valve Vs. Blunt Instrument
Doug Haslam In my Great Personal Social Media Experiment, one of my lessons is learning how the tools I use affect the people with whom I communicate. Onbe of my methods is…
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Different Audiences Different Writers
I thought I could approach reading two social media-related books in the same way. I couldn’t. Don Tapscott’s "Grown Up Digital" is aimed at someone like me, gen-X and older…
Social Media Top 5: Twitter Abandonment Issues, FriendFeed Traction? and Nothing’s New No More
Nielsen says “Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth”: It’s troubling that one of my favorite social networking (and marketing) tools is suffering from a lot of abandoned accounts: over…
Wrigley Field’s Lesson: Charm Without Substance
I was really excited to visit Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. Spending most of my baseball dollars at the shrine we call Fenway Park, I expected similar, nostalgic…
Big with Resources or Small with Agility?
Thanks to "Colonel Tribune (http://twitter.com/…eltribune)," I got a personal tour of the Chicago Tribune tower and offices during my recent vacation. One thing that impressed me was the extent to…
Social Media Top 5: OMG OPRAH!!!, PR Rules Social Media, & NHL Tweetup
OMG OMG OPRAH’S ON TWITTER OMG OMG!! WELCOME TO TWITTER OPRAH (BUT WHY IS SHE YELLING AT US?) Ev Williams of Twitter went on Oprah’s show to talk Twitter (no,…
Ruth Bader-Ginsberg on Social Media
OK, not really. But in a Sunday New York Times article (http://bit.ly/rbgin) she did hit a great communications point in talking about the effect of foreign rulings on the U.S.…
PR? Or Just Social Media?
It occurred to me that all my talk of social media probably gets me pegged as a "social media" guy. Thing is, I’m a PR guy. Social media does play…
Bad Pitch Rants- as Plentiful & Predictable as- Bad Pitches
How should PR people contact media people? However those media people say they prefer. Period. If that’s too much work for PR people. well, that’s our job. If media people…
How Do You Handle the Data Crush?
Yesterday, I was intrigued to find that Robert Scoble, spurred by the faster-moving relaunch of FriendFeed.com, wondered aloud about how to manage the crush of information that passes our eyes…