Do you remember when you knew everything in your glorious teenage years? Do you remember how you despaired of your parents and then as the years passed (you mightn’t be there yet) you started to turn into your parents? Aside: My 5 (nearly 6) year old already refers to me as his “old man” – [...]
Tags: Social Media
I will be travelling to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from April 11-13 to attend the International Corporate Citizenship Conference 2010 hosted by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston. If you’re planning on attending do let me know. Rumor has it that they may even allow me to share [...]
Tags: CSR
Yesterday Mike Arrington posted a story about a start-up who later this week will be launching a service that’s effectively a Yelp for individuals. Mr. Arringtron asks if – with the launch of these services, along with the growth of personal data online – we need to become more accepting of people’s indiscretions. It’s a [...]
Tags: Public Relations
Recently I wrote about the importance of being yourself online and avoiding the temptation to call yourself a guru or a thought leader. Today I want to touch on a separate but related issue. A common theme from a number of highly rated social media related keynotes and posts – which it should be said [...]
Tags: Public Relations·Social Media
Earlier today I learned from Jeremy Pepper via Twitter that Phil Gomes has temporarily suspended his blogging activities. Phil was one of the first PR folks (along with Jim Horton and Richard Bailey) that I came across when I started blogging many years ago. In a trip of pure nostalgia I searched my old blog [...]
One of the biggest concerns executives voice about social media is the lack of control. The idea that anyone can comment, share or disagree with you makes people uncomfortable. Of course the fact that you know people are having these conversations about your brand or product, and that – if you choose – you can [...]
Tags: CSR·Public Relations
Here’s a definition: A thought leader is a futurist or person who is recognized for innovative ideas and demonstrates the confidence to promote or share those ideas as actionable distilled insights. For me the key word here is recognized. Unfortunately by this definition, 99% of our self-styled social media “thought leaders” are precluded. That’s a [...]
Tags: Social Media
Partly in response to my post about the growing importance of appropriate communications on a company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts, the Textifying blog over at Arizona State University (sorry there’s no bio page and the post was written by ‘tburns’ – and I tried to leave a comment but couldn’t) published a post entitled: [...]