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  Email doomsayers How many times have we heard that something is ‘going to go the way of the dodo’? We heard it about radio when television was introduced. We hear it about newspapers because of the internet. Now, we’re hearing about email going away because ‘teenagers just don’t use it anymore.’ Such esteemed minds as Facebook’s COO [...]

  2 months on
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  The future of the article I’ve been thinking frequently lately about how transitional so many of the tools and technologies we adopt lately will be in our lives. As the pace of innovation continues to run in high gear (or at least it seems so), it feels a bit silly to settle-in to any of the technologies that are ‘today’s [...]

  4 months on
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  There can be only one… Okay, so it’s not Highlander, and there is probably room for more than one major social network, but it’s been a very interesting week in social media land! A week ago today, TechCrunch circulated a memo by Ning’s new COO, Jason Rosenthal, (replacing Gina Bianchi) that officially called ‘game over’ on Ning’s free platform. Additionally, [...]

  4 months on
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  Emerging Media Dictionary I started this as a document to share with co-workers and clients at work to help with two things: 1) to help them understand the space that I work in and 2) to help me remember not to speak in jargon that has to be explained in a dictionary. In speaking with a few [...]

  7 months on
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  Introducing the world to ArtStarters.org I’ve been working the past few weeks with my team on bringing a great new website into the world.  As November slips by, we get ever closer to our ‘Hello, World’ moment on ArtStarters.org.  The past two weeks have seen me trying to make some headway on building interest among people who can help us [...]

  10 months on
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  Brief ramble on oversharing… I’ve been thinking a lot about oversharing lately – you know, when someone only needs a certain amount of information but you continue to explain yourself anyway. That’s an overshare. Particularly, it’s been on my mind whether social media causes us to become ‘oversharers’ in other areas of our lives, too. We become so [...]

  11 months on
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  Culture and Social Media Work I believe pretty firmly in the subtle cultural differences within the regions of the US. As a person born and raised in the Midwest, I think there are a few key differences that I note (and other people seem to point out to me, too), and I think it’s interesting how they affect my work [...]

  11 months on
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  Media relations put out to pasture? Is it time, yet? Can we viably say that as traditional print publications start going the way of the dodo that media relations as the core competency of a public relations practitioner is on its way out, too? One thing that still makes me upset and frustrated with former colleagues and clients is the inability to [...]

  12 months on
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  What’s up Just a quick post to highlight the new semester I’m in. It’s going to be a bit of a bear, but interesting. Currently, we’re in planning stages for the development of my team’s social community. The name has been nailed down, it will be called ArtStarters.org The first steps were outlining our project scope (who will [...]

  12 months on
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  Intarwebs changes our minds I was reading the most recent edition of Wired Magazine that landed on my doorstep this week.  There’s an interesting piece written by Clive Thompson using research from the Stanford Study of Writing organized by Professor Andrea Lunsford. The argument is that we write more than we ever have despite as critics bemoaning that the the [...]

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  Connect the spots While attending Twiistup the other week, I caught a panel discussion on social media and music.  The part that really got my attention was the point – made by Chamillionaire, a rapper and forward-thinking, social-media-using entrepreneur – that social media tools are useless unless you’re building your ‘lists.’  Whether that’s a list of Twitterati to [...]

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