Category Archives: Past Nonsense

John Quincy Adams: Diplomat, President, Microblogger

The sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), was arguably one of the most qualified men ever to hold that office. A diplomat, former Secretary of State, professor, au......

Tweet Troubles: The Twitter Lawsuit

As social media continue to grow in popularity and reach, they have, in a sense, become less purely social. Tools that once seemed to be mere avenues of connecting or catching up with friends ar......

In Defense of Ghost-Tweeting… with Caveats

Friday’s PR Week features an op-ed by Amy Dean titled “Five reasons why ghost Tweeting will come back to haunt you” [subscription required]. Dean makes a reasonable case agains......

Social Media Doesn’t Influence My Buying Decisions. I Swear.

Over the weekend, from InformationWeek: Practical Analysis: Social Networks Get Low Marks As Sources Of IT Info Art Wittman cheerfully reports: In a series of questions, we asked where you get y......

RIP, Geocities

My second thought upon reading the news that Geocities will be shut down later this year was: that’s kind of bittersweet. My first thought, of course, was: wait… Geocities is still a......

Tool Academy

So you’ve got your head around an integrated social media strategy… now what? As a necessary caveat – we don’t condone starting to ‘do’ social media based on ......

Stop tagging me, Dad!

The statistics Nate reflected on earlier this week should come as no surprise to those of us in our mid-twenties who have found ourselves, of late, frantically untagging Facebook photos posted b......

Googled yourself lately?

From Seth Godin this week: Personal Branding in the Age of Google. It surprises me a bit to see Godin writing about such a well-trodden subject. Hasn’t it been the “age of GoogleR......

Do you ‘do’ social media?

On everyone’s mind this week – the results of Jennifer Leggio’s research report: Is ’social PR’ for real? Which agencies get it? Leggio surveyed over 600 PR decisio......

Live… from Davos, Twit-zerland

According to my records, I averaged over an hour a day on Twitter last week. Not because I find the lure of constant 140-character correspondence with 100 of my closest acquaintances absolutely ......