Why I Love Living in New England
Doug Haslam 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…
Social Media Top 5: Goodbye, D*****bags
BusinessWeek Editorial Layoffs; Just…Sad Let’s pretend that Bloomberg has a master plan for a leaner, stronger, BusinessWeek after buying the troubled magazine recently. They probably do, right? It still boggled…
SIPA Online: PR Stranger Wanders into the World of Publishers and ROI
This was originally published on the SHIFT Communications “Slice” Blog Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the SIPA (Specialized Information Publishers Association) Marketing Conference in gorgeous Miami Beach,…
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…
Blog Experiment: Video Blog-Casting
Notice I didn’t call it podcasting? I’m not sure I want to set up a special feed for video subscriptions, but I am thinking about adding more video to the…
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…