A well-placed insult can be a thing of beauty on the Internet, where random acts of rudeness happen every day.
On the other hand, name calling and one-upmanship has that dog fight/car crash feel to it that lacks the grace of an elegant flame war.
If you haven’t checked out the comments on a recent post here, […]
There’s something sort of disappointing about exchanging business cards with someone who has a dull title, at a dull company with a dull visual identity.
It’s not that you expect every card to have an audio microchip that recites the company’s daily stock prices. It’s that I’m waiting to be surprised or delighted if the card […]
There are several excellent conversations taking place today about young public relations people, and whether they should be putting it all on the line in blogs and other social media.
Paull Young has links to the various posts. Worth clicking through and reading some of them.
My takeaway: Don’t needlessly or carelessly piss all over someone who […]
Guest Blogger: Dan Schawbel talks about the recent hijacking of his Gmail and Paypal accounts.
When it comes to PR, never has there been a better time to communicate your personal brand to the world. Social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, MyBlogLog and Ning let you establish yourself and form relationships with others.
But, when you […]
Communications measurement consultant KD Paine learned a good lesson about all the friendships and relationships she has developed over the years. When she needed help, friends, co-workers, customers, acquaintances and strangers came through for her.
Paine had two weeks in which to raise $125,000, or her farm would be auctioned off to pay back taxes and […]
Like railroad companies from the 19th and early 20th centuries, the communications training organizations face the choice of building their own social networking sites, or latching onto an existing network and building their own branch line.
They seem to be choosing the stand-alone solution, which will serve their existing customers well. Whether this will help them […]
There are hundreds of productivity and communication tools out there that you’re only scratching the surface of. How many of us know how to use our word processor for complex tasks? That multi-function cell phone? The top of the line digital camera?
If you’re like most of us, you use the basic functions, and ignore the […]
After mocking the “Look what I’m doing now! Pay attention to me!” aspect of Twitter, I was drawn inexorably into the social milieu by the excitement being expressed about it. (See previous post.)
(Update: I rewrote this from a mini-clip to a full post.)
I have to admit, the ability to see what people I know are […]
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