Goodbye WordPress.com

Today marks a bitter-sweet day: It is the day I make the jump from WordPress.com over to Blogger.
I tried to make it work, but the free/hosted version of WordPress was just too constricting and I needed my (customizable) space.
Thank you to those who have hung around here for a while and checked out a few [...]

Musical Inspiration for Social Media

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Originally uploaded by m_halminen
“Why are you so in to this social media stuff?” I get questions like this from family, friends, colleagues and I haven’t really been able to nail down a good explanation that suits me…until now.
I have found some social media inspiration in a song that helps explain why I am so [...]

Blocking Social Networks

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Originally uploaded by vedo’s pics

Many organizations choose to use internet filters to help stem the tide of unwanted and/or inappropriate content for its users. Education, specifically school districts are no different. I can understand and appreciate the necessity of keeping young internet users away from highly inappropriate Web sites in an academic setting.
However, I have [...]

Don’t be mad, be good

On Sunday, June 1, 2008 legal analyst Andrew Cohen of CBS spoke out on former White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellen’s new tell-all book. In his report, “The Flak on Flacks,” Cohen accuses PR professionals of making a living on untruths. He even calls out PRSA’s ethics. National PRSA responded. Cohen responds. And the arguing [...]

A universal language

Over the holiday weekend I watched a few things that solidified my appreciation for mathematics and science.
For two nights in a row the international space station “flew” over North Texas at a rate of about 27,700 km/hr (or 17,210 mi/hr). It looked like a star shining across the night sky. I watched in amazement that [...]

Efficient or lazy?

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Originally uploaded by vedo’s pics

Saw this sign and it made me think about the differences between being efficient and being lazy. Sometimes we take our communication tools for granted and communicate the wrong thing. Sometimes we convince ourselves that we are being efficient by using the latest and greatest technology. Sometimes we just run out [...]

The changing landscape of Public Relations

I am proud to be a public relations professional. Some outside people might scoff at the idea of being in PR. They (like many people I would guess) have an antiquated idea of public relations.
There is a great song by Jimmy Buffet, Public Relations off of the Don’t Stop The Carnival album about Norman Paperman, [...]

Jump in, the water’s fine

Chris Brogin put out an interesting set of questions for his blog readers:
What were your first steps into social media?
Who were your early people you admired and followed?
How did you get started?
If you were going to give advice to someone starting out, what would you tell them?
What will you do in the next few months [...]