Swearing as Business Model – Bad Idea or Good For You?
Anyone who knows me know I can out-swear any sailor, and be creatively obscene in the process. However, when it comes to speaking or writing in public, I very rarely…
Anyone who knows me know I can out-swear any sailor, and be creatively obscene in the process. However, when it comes to speaking or writing in public, I very rarely…
It has been a few years now, and people are still using the term “#humblebrag.” I have about had it. It’s not a word. The very use of this non-word…
“Serial,” a podcast from the producers of the public radio show “This American Life,” is a runaway hit. That’s awesome. What’s not awesome is the leap of logic people are…
In the marketing, PR and communications field, we (well, the smart ones at least) take great care to remember that what we do – and what happens – both good…
This August I completed my 7th consecutive Pan-Mass Challenge. The PMC is an annual 2-day bike ride across much of Massachusetts, for which riders raise money that goes to the…
One of the funnest spectator sports in social media marketing is tearing apart the advice of others. Add to that the constant hand-wringing over whether conference presenters should give “101”…
2014 has brought a career move, and I am far enough into it to finally write about it here. After leaving an agency – Voce Communications – that did and…
I often get grumpy about “shiny object syndrome,” when people jump on some brand-new social network or tool and declare it the “Next Big Thing,” because – well who knows…
I once used the phrase “(Social media ‘guru’ name here) is Not Smarter Than You” in a blog post as a way of encouraging folks to create their own content…