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Stream of consciousness from Monitoring Social Media, Boston

October 5th, 2010 at 08:27 » Comments (3)

Tweeting from industry conferences is a doubled-edged sword. Those interested in the content from the event are thrilled to pull in a stream of interesting observations without having to plunk down ...more »

Jeremiah Owyang: Public relations will be impacted by ’social CRM’ in 2010

December 22nd, 2009 at 17:54 » Comments Off

There's something special about a guy who isn't a rock star yet has three times the Twitter followers of Bob Dylan.  He's not a deep-pocketed electronics retailer, yet his social ...more »

Counting corpses and making AP angry

September 2nd, 2009 at 17:30 » Comments Off

Most Americans associate summer's three-day bank holidays with barbecues, trips to the beach and  family vacations. I think of corpses. Not that I am morbid or have a desire to work as ...more »

Mucking up Twitter

July 28th, 2009 at 13:59 » Comments (1)

Every time I walk through the cluttered aisles of the deep discounter Ocean State Job Lot in Rhode Island and see ill-conceived products like green tea soda or Maalox Whip, ...more »

Drugmakers slowly getting addicted to Twitter

July 27th, 2009 at 15:18 » Comments (1)

[caption id="attachment_333" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Graphic from Time"][/caption] Pfizer's Twitter feed seems to be benefiting from the same ingredient that powers its blockbuster erectile drug. After only six days @pfizer_news had jumped to ...more »

When customer service works properly

July 17th, 2009 at 15:19 » Comments Off

A billing mistake resulted in Josh Muszynski's debit card being charged more than 23 quadrillion dollars for the pack of cigarettes he bought at a Manchester, NH, gas station.  The ...more »

Twitter raffle cheapens a brand

June 2nd, 2009 at 13:46 » Comments Off

            Next to the App Store supporting Apple's iPhone, I can't think of any place more exciting and entrepreneurial in today's media world than Twitter. Not an hour goes by that I ...more »

Bathrooms in Second Life

May 21st, 2009 at 22:58 » Comments (1)

A comment made by Brian Solis at this week's Media Relations Summit in New York triggered a walk down memory lane, or at least a flight over an island my ...more »

Korean translation for ‘chutzpah’ may be newest Twitter challenge

May 15th, 2009 at 15:43 » Comments Off

New Yorker Sandy Cohen has started an unconventional translation company, Speaklike.  Rather than thriving on the conversion of encyclopedia-sized documents from English into Arabic or Portuguese, Sandy's start-up offers Twitter ...more »

Smart consumers, PR pros benefit from media fragmentation

April 30th, 2009 at 09:42 » Comments (2)

Sometimes fast isn't fast enough. As the Rochester, N.Y., reporter for UPI in the '80s, it used to embarrass me to get a message from BROOKS-NXF (Dorthea Brooks on the New ...more »