Social Media Coarseness a Real Threat
The vile conversations taking place in social media threaten its growth. That’s the subject of my latest commentary at Media Bullseye. Check it out and let me know if I’m full of hot air myself.
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At the risk of alienating all of my remaining friends in the public relations industry, I thought I might share some of my running commentary during today’s For Immediate Release broadcast on Blog Talk Radio. The subject was startup PR and the jumping off point was Jason Calacanis’ blog post from a few months ago in which he argued essentially that the startup CEO should head PR, not an outside agency.
Content is Not — and Should Not Be — Free
I was listening to Joseph Jaffe’s Across the Sound podcast recently and he expressed the oft-heard point of view that “content wants to be free.” Though I often agree with what Jaffe has to say, in this instance I must say “hogwash.” Simply put, there is no such thing as free content. Content providers receive…
Don’t Fear Failure, Learn from It
Next week I will join a panel of entrepreneurs talking to students in an entrepreneurship class at the University of New Hampshire on the subject of failure. This is a subject that numerous entrepreneurs and investors have talked about in the blogosphere in recent years. I’m certain I have even chimed in on occasion. But…
Looking to the Future of Digital Public Affairs
Earlier this year, we provided our clients at DCI Group with a white paper I wrote to forecast trends in digital public affairs for the next 12-18 months. We recently decided to make it available publicly, and you can download your own copy of the document for free at the DCI Digital web site. Like…
The Real Problem with Information Isn’t Overload or Underload
Paul Kedrosky raised an interesting question at the Defrag Conference in Denver yesterday. He led a panel discussion that kept circling back to the notion of information overload, but Paul suggested that the 200+ people in the room likely represent edge cases who frequently overwhelmed by the amount of information that they have to process,…
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Surfing Back in Time
I had a conversation yesterday that spurred me to think back to the “old days” of the World Wide Web. You see, I’ve been at this game long enough to remember Yahoo before it was at Yahoo.com. Most of you probably don’t know that it used to live at http://akebono.stanford.edu. In any case, I took…