Friday Frivolity – Star Wars and the Curse of Knowledge

As communicators, we are sometimes so close to a story, product or social media tool that we have a hard time explaining it to someone “on the outside.” But we should always be keeping our target audience in mind as we write, present, and network. What do these people know right now? What am I [...]

Blog Scrapers Imagine a Magical Concern

Since there have been blogs, there have been people who steal your content. I’m not taking about borrowing your thoughts or words under a Creative Commons license, I’m talking about directly stealing your content to house on blogs loaded with Google Adwords or other advertising. Actually, for some of these blogs I’m not even sure [...]

The Rundown with Twitter Caution and Transparency

Welcome to the Rundown Podcast. Here I give and get The Rundown on social media and all things Public Relations and Digital marketing on the web. Episode 2 of The Rundown Podcast introduces co-conspirator and co-host Ashley Mead. We discuss some recent Twitter-related events and at least one cautionary tale regarding the always-on, always-linked web. [...]

A Podcast Dies a Thousand Deaths…

…an unfounded Internet meme lives forever. At the end of 2008, with the demise of podcasting service Podango (no link ’cause they’re, uh, gone), the “Podcasting is Dead” meme recirculated again. The conversation, this time spurred from a recent blog post by Michael Goeghegan, referring to Podango’s situation and an unfortunately titled presentation he did [...]