Social Media Top 5: Personal Brand (Wait, Don’t Go)
Doug Haslam I was thinking about the concept of “personal branding” quite a bit lately, thus this Social Media Top 5. I was invited to speak at one of Dan Schawbel‘s Personal…
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Puzzling it Out
Putting together a very difficult jigsaw puzzle (pictured) with my family, I experienced a lot of the feelings, frustrations, despair and elation that I equate with many tasks, including those…
Gilbane Boston Conference: Content Management and Social Media
Cross-Posted from the SHIFT Communications “Slice” Blog I had the pleasure of attending the Gilbane Boston conference on December 2nd. The topic? Content management, with “CMS” (Content Management System) and…
Why I Love Living in New England
Those unfortunate souls living in snow-less climates just won’t understand. When you wake up on a Sunday morning with the trees covered in snow, it’s just one of those days…
Social Media Top 5: Ads Need to Clean Up Act; Wave is Still a Preemie; RT “I Do”
A Madness to Method with”Edgy” Cleaner Spot Raises Questions In its zeal to raise awareness of regulations for labeling cleaning products, the people behind household cleaning product company Method’s latest…
Holding On to Your Stuff
There are tons of tools to publish your content that make it extremely easy to inform, entertain and reach people. What concerns me about these channels is that we don’t…
Discovery & Experimentation: Setting Aside Resources for R&D
So- is the economy recovering yet? The reason I ask is that the poor economy has forced business to focus on selling now! billable hours! and short campaigns! vs longer-term…
Echo vs. Reverb Online
I have been whining lately about Twitter’s latest “ReTweet” feature, which lets you forward a copy of a Tweet you like. My problem? It sends ReTweets with one click; you…
It’s Hard Out There For a Print
I refuse to say "print is dead" because I don’t believe it, but scenes like this closed used book store near downtown Boston say a lot about where media is…
Social Media Top 5: Embargo Nonsense, Disliking Dislikes, & TwinkedIn (No Creamy Middle)
More Embargo Nonsense via TechCrunch A while back, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch announced that the site would no longer honor embargoes, even if they agreed to one. Silly, but fair…