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.
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.
I get a lot of email. And a lot of that email reflects pretty poorly on the sender. Some of the emails I receive wouldn’t even make the cut as amateur ransom notes. They are often laden with misspellings or typos. Frequently they fail to make a succinct point. They routinely seem to be disorganized…
At DCI Group this year, we decided to have a little fun with our holiday card. Instead of sending out scads of printed cards that would just get lost in the pile of others just like it on the desks of those we work for and with, we went with a holiday e-card. But we…
Traditional (“old”) media finds itself experiencing an earthquake of change as online (“new”) media changes the rules of the game. Some publishers and broadcasters find themselves struggling to adapt, while others thrive on the ability to innovate. The competition becomes more intense by the day and the fears among old school journalists and media executives…
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,…
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…
Next week my good friend Don Bates will be teaching a seminar on PR writing in Washington, DC. This practical and informative session is being sponsored by the PRSA National Capital Chapter and will be hosted at George Washington University on March 16, 2010 from 9 AM to 3 PM. In advance of this gathering,…