Social Media Jungle Boston; A Snapshot
Doug Haslam I had the pleasure today of attending Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Jungle in Boston (ok, Waltham, MA) today. First, the format worked out really well– a number of speakers, many…
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Social Media Top 5: Obama Interactive-ish, Twitter Grump & Friends Get Ink
Maybe This is More Important Than Having a Blogging President: President Obama responding directly to New York Times columnist David Brooks’ criticisms, in a direct, thoughtful and – most importantly-…
Uttercast: The Web Site Gave Me the Skittles
There has been plenty of back-and-forth on both sides of opinion about the new www.skittles.com. In short, they replaced the home page with redirects to live social media sites optimized…
Pan-Mass Challenge Update: Fundraising, and What You Can Do
As February has come to a close, I would like to update on my progress in training and fundraising for the Pan-Mass Challenge. As for fundraising, thanks to an increasing…
Uttercast: What Are You Afraid Of?
I’m fond of the "just do it" school of social media. A lot of these tools are both pre-mainstream and cheap/free, so experimentation is a low risk venture. For that…
How I Use Twitter (this is probably part one)
I’m a big user of Twitter – as many of you know, since the main traffic driver for this blog is Twitter – but I have probably not blogged about…
Uttercast: RSS; Who’ll tell us what to read?
After reading Ike Pigott’s article on Media Bullseye, "It’s Nothing Personal," (http://mediabullseye.com/…onal.html), in which he mock-apologized for not following the too-many blogs in his feed reader, I asked myself- will…
Uttercast: Boston Globe’s Ted Kennedy Series
I have been reading the Boston Globe’s series on Ted Kennedy and have a few thoughts: (http://www.boston.com/…ls/kennedy) – Flogging a book with a serial in the paper is old school.…
Uttercast: On Media Hype and Responsibility
Taking part in Journchat Monday evening on Twitter (http://journchat.info/, http://twitter.com/journchat), one question came up that didn’t speak to PR people on the surface; did media hype make the economic situation…
Uttercast: Whither Print Newspapers?
The discussion about the future of newspapers isn’t inside baseball anymore; it’s kitchen table discussion. As we all wonder what will happen to the dailies, and talk about the Detroit…