Don’t be a Knee-Jerk: On Quitting Instagram, Feedburner, & Other Rash Decisions
Doug Haslam Are you a quitter? I don’t mean the kind of quitter who gives up because something is too hard, but the kind who quits an online service in a huff…
Social Media Lessons From Every Holiday TV Special Ever Made
I love holidays, I love TV, and I definitely love “Social Media Lessons” posts. So here are my totally classy social media lessons from these TV gems. Happy Holidays everyone.…
Instagram Licensing Your Photos? Here are Some They Can Use Now
Instagram, the popular app for making your crappy mobile photos look like, well, slightly less crappy photos, has the Internet up in arms with its recent announced change to its…
The Internet of Flings: Taking Care With Buzzwords
Having been in PR and social media for many years now, I have witnessed up close the love/hate relationship my profession has with buzzwords. I define “love” in this instance…
Exerting Control and Limiting: One Way to Change User Behavior
Some idle-ish thoughts on the fight to build social network platforms: There is an interesting dynamic – a war, perhaps – going on in the word of social networks. Imbedded…
Social Media, Marketing and Specialization
The idea of specialization vs the idea of a more well-rounded approach is a long-running argument in PR and other communications disciplines. is it best to be an all-rounder or…
What Does Data Tell us About the State of Corporate Social Media Programs?
Through years of working with companies on their social media efforts, it has always been clear that the more human resources an organization puts behind its social channels, the more…
What is an Agency? Social Media and Corporate Voice
For the last 15 years, I have spent most of my working time with agencies (PR, social media, communications). While in the PR world it was expressly the job, or…
The Social Media Marketer’s Burden: On Leaving Platforms
I saw it again today. Every once in a while, someone I know professionally grandly announces that he or she is leaving a social media platform because it does not…
You Won’t Need a Web Site in 2015! Unless You Do
I understand the need for provocative statements (heck, my last post here led off with “Experts are Useless), so perhaps I should not be quick to judge the statement “You…