I’m a strong believer that communications professionals (especially in PR and social media areas) have a responsibility to be somewhat liberal in their comment policies on blogs, networks, etc. Why? Because I don’t think you can really advocate for building conversations if you aren’t open to them yourself–even if they may get a bit heated.
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OK. The recent Toronto Star article by Lisa Summers (”Are They the Dumbest Generation?”) didn’t limit itself to social media, but the Digital Age as a whole. And Heather already beat me to it. Still, I think it’s worth commenting on here, with social media being attributed even in part to my generation’s apparent lack [...]

Judy Gombita of PR Conversations forwarded me a link to a post by Dave Fleet, looking at Google Trends statistics for Myspace and Facebook. The chart makes it appear that Facebook is getting more traffic than Myspace, as Dave’s title suggests: Did Facebook Traffic Outgrow Myspace Traffic Last Year?
That supposition would be wrong.
Note: I’m not [...]

I wiped out my feed reader a few weeks back, and haven’t gotten around to re-populating it. Now, I’d like your help.
I don’t read many blogs regularly. For the very few that I do, I prefer going to the blog itself. But there are others I know I should be following more vaguely, and I [...]

As you may or may not know, before I started working predominantly with online entrepreneurs and webmasters, I worked almost exclusively with musicians. I’m still involved with that scene quite a bit. I’ve also mentioned here recently that I think independent (indie) musicians are often a perfect example of those using social media effectively in [...]

You’ve heard me talk about the predictable nature of Internet marketers (not all, but enough to make an impact), and how they abuse new social media tools. Will this group of social media spammers be the death of Twitter?
Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying Twitter’s going to actually vanish or anything. What I [...]

I don’t normally post job info here, but thought this was worth mentioning for any of you PR folks looking for a new place to call home in the social media realm. Digg is looking for a Director of Public Relations - read the details.

(Note: Not all of my concerns here about social media releases are directly related to Todd’s comments. This post is part interview, part rambling, and chock full of my always-unsolicited opinions.)
I don’t think it’s really a secret - I’m not a huge fan of the social media release (SMR). I raised some criticisms / concerns [...]

I know I’ve been talking a bit much about blogging lately, and I’m not going to stop just yet. I was sent a link a while ago to a data chart from Forrester Research highlighting sources that people trust the most when it comes to information about products and services.
Not surprisingly, the results show that [...]

Today a comment was left on my post, Top Ten Reasons Facebook Sucks, that I thought was intelligent enough as well as amusing enough to highlight in its own post (you can still find the comment on the original post as well). This perspective comes from a reader named Simone and goes a bit beyond [...]