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Re: Ringling No More: A Former Clown Reflects On The End Of 'The Greatest Show On Earth'

doughaslam — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:55:15 -0000

Good memories- Pete was a HS classmate (and bandmate of my brother) and we were definitely envious of one of our own actually running away to join the circus like you read about.

Re: ‘Saturday Night Live’ review: Alec Baldwin, Larry David cameo in Tracy Morgan show

doughaslam — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:56:36 -0000

"Alec was great, even if he did only have limited air time."
I see what you did there.

Re: Facebook Stickers now available in comments: why I care about this crap

doughaslam — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:40:15 -0000

Evil, thy name is animated gifs. Please don't bring on the apocalypse with your teasing.

But yeah, if you can use them in chat you should be able to use them in comments. I guess.

Re: Can you trademark the Ice Bucket Challenge?

doughaslam — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:03:33 -0000

Looks like they backed off. Well done. http://www.thenonprofittime...

Re: Confessions of a social media strategist

doughaslam — Tue, 27 May 2014 15:18:26 -0000

I vote for chronic bout of self-loathing.

Re: I Quit Foursquare a Month Ago. Here’s how my audience has benefitted

doughaslam — Sat, 24 May 2014 18:55:34 -0000

I'm still going to tell people to stop getting in your way at Penn Station.

https://foursquare.com/item...

Re: What Stalin can teach us about social media - The Week

doughaslam — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:51:51 -0000

#what

Re: 11 Things A Business Could Do With the New Vine App

doughaslam — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:04:25 -0000

Me neither

Re: Instagrammers doth protest the T's & C's too much, methinks.

doughaslam — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:41:20 -0000

This wasn't exactly done without permission or knowledge of the user, though- I think that was the worry with the ToS statement

Re: Avoid the Knee-Jerk: On Quitting Instagram, Feedburner and Other Rash Decisions

doughaslam — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:05:40 -0000

That's pretty close to how I view it. Particularly, the only share what you are willing to share (even if you think it's supposed to private)

Re: Avoid the Knee-Jerk: On Quitting Instagram, Feedburner and Other Rash Decisions

doughaslam — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:03:42 -0000

Thanks. I love Feedburner - for what it is - of course, until I don't, that is

Re: Avoid the Knee-Jerk: On Quitting Instagram, Feedburner and Other Rash Decisions

doughaslam — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:03:16 -0000

Yeah, I just think some people moved too fast. It may or may not have been a bad thing, but I'm still waiting

Re: Avoid the Knee-Jerk: On Quitting Instagram, Feedburner and Other Rash Decisions

doughaslam — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:02:31 -0000

Porting to Flickr (Instagram also does this) is a great move for any platform

Re: Avoid the Knee-Jerk: On Quitting Instagram, Feedburner and Other Rash Decisions

doughaslam — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:18:19 -0000

I know some folks actually had problems, and I would probably do the same thing in that case. I do, however, want to separate such cases from whether or not there was a larger issue with the service going down- -that part was, and remains, far from clear.

There was at least one other case of another blogger who switched suddenly, despite no problems with her feed (I was still getting it in my reader). When she switched, her blog disappeared. She left instructions on how to subscribe to the new feed, but if I'm going to ask that much of subscribers, well, I'll wait for the original service to actually fail first (as you did)

Re: Bald Marketing Brothers of Another Mother

doughaslam — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:43:12 -0000

I could have sworn that Scott Monty would have joined your ranks by now. I blame Rogaine http://doughaslam.com/2008/...

Re: How to Calculate the Value of a Like

doughaslam — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:08:17 -0000

You must be new here ;P

Re: Exiting Facebook as a Marketing Vehicle

doughaslam — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:48:58 -0000

As a marketer/PR/Social Media guy, I can't fathom publicly giving up on a platform for marketing, as clients rely on me to know at least something about how to be a (good, responsible community member) marketer there. It would make little sense for any communications professional to throw the current biggest platform overboard like that (of course that's different than being cynical, skeptical or questioning).

I also find it harder to separate the professional and personal personae, which may be a personal choice, but on Facebook there are too many professional connections for me to cut the cord like that. I also know there are tools to compartmentalize such discussion (like Facebook Groups, for instance, and there are a few very good professionally-oriented ones I frequent). I also believe they complement each other well and playing both games together often leads to wins in both. People tend to either understand what mode I am in and can filter, or just know they aren't going to understand what I'm talking about sometimes- something that is less true everyday.

I am intrigued by the marketing traction on other channels, and would prefer to hear more elaboration on that. Meanwhile, here is a link to the latest photo of my cat, Whoopie Pie http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: Experts Are Useless: Experience Is What Matters

doughaslam — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:02:04 -0000

Thanks all for the comments. I did take some semantic license with the word "expert," but essentially agree that experience does make experts- in the end, that was the point.

Re: 5 Forms of Apple Link Bait

doughaslam — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:02:57 -0000

6. Write a blog post about Apple linkbait ;P

Re: How Change Happens

doughaslam — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:50:52 -0000

Thank you Geoff. I absolutely agree that the slacktivism term gets thrown around a bit too liberally. Just as there's probably one person who cares about the lunch you just Tweeted about, Liking, sharing, donating, signing up- even and especially wirting posts like this- do good, each in their own way.

I am grateful to those who donate, but just as grateful for those who can't for some reason but spread the information to their friends (some of whom may donate), or even simply wish me well (encouraging me to continue to ride and work harder to raise money), perhaps sharing their own story about cancer in the process (more motivation to stay involved).

Don't underestimate the smallest action, as ithey can easily lead to the bigger ones.

(and if I'm allowed to share my Pan-Mass Challenge link here, it's http;//bit.ly/pmcdoug - they give us until October 1, maybe we can reach $10,000)

Re: Twitter Verifies Vice President Paul Ryan

doughaslam — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:42:26 -0000

I can't believe we're talking about this. How can you read this as anything but Ryan aspiring to VP, which , as I recall, was a subject of some news coverage over the last week. Hate to say it, but this whole conversation is silly. Ryan and Twitter did nothing wrong here, and there is nothing "literal" about the ToS regarding this.

Signed, @DougH (discl: I am not made of flour, water and eggs)

Re: Is Instagram Ruining Photography?

doughaslam — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:17:30 -0000

I would argue instagram saves us from the naked bad photography of limited cameras from iPhones and Androids devices. I make fun of the Polaroid kitsch as well, but it actually helps cover some limitations.

As for the erosion of professional and pro-hobbyist photography, we didn't need instagram to make snapshots available all over the internet. Good photography is still good photography, Maybe it needs t harder work to stand out.

Re: 7 Reasons a 23 Year Old Should Run Your Social Media (Instead of an Agency)

doughaslam — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:49:34 -0000

Well, if you hire a bad agency that's what you'll get. Buyer beware, as always. disclosure: i'm an agency guy, and the best relationships are with clients and agency teams that treat each other as partners. "Agent" is one who is specifically authorized to act on behalf of a party- if that's not the relationship, then it is doomed to fail.

As for the "23 year old" thing- it depends on the 23 year old, but experience and poise are important things to have.

Would love to hear from successul 23 year old social media mangers, and more successful agency partners- this story has not yet been fully told.

Re: Emailing to a YouTube Video gets more clicks than emailing to a website with video on it.

doughaslam — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:20:31 -0000

Surely there is still greater value to leading people to your website instead of YouTube even if the numbers are smaller. What do you then expect people at YouTube (or your Web site) to do, and is that the best place from where they could do it? That's the important distinction to me.

Re: When Did We Get So Nasty?

doughaslam — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:35:55 -0000

And yet here's the thing. People like Ryan Holiday underscore the need to be critical and to call out BS and bad practice. In a practical way of course- nobody likes trolls. But I see no problem with "taking out the trash" in the interest of showing that our industry is "better than this" and showing we will not put up with or identify with bad ethics and poor methods. At times that calls for hyperbole and humor. At other times it calls for total evisceration (ok, that was hyperbole).

And that's not just for the Ryan holidays of the world, but also for the Scott Montys and Peter Shankmans (brought up as previously named), which has been done. Heck, take on me if I do something worth criticizing. We should be able to take the real criticism (while ignoring thee trolls) on a daily basis and coming out better for the discussion.

I do agree the challenge is to be nice and call out good practice as well. I just don't think we need a special day for it. It's just begging for someone to leave a bag of flaming unicorn poop at your blogstep.