This post originally appeared on the Rainmakers social network, Let's Make It Rain. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, a Stanford professor who wrote In Praise of Athletic Beauty, discussed the aesthetics of athletes who perform their sport so well, it's a thing of ...Read More
This post and subsequent discussion has been moved to the Professional Blog Service blog. Twitter has become such a phenomenon, it's almost easier to list people who are not on Twitter. 1) My kids 2) The Amish (I take that back, now even the ...Read More
I've been immersing myself in the Twitterverse over the last few weeks (follow me at ), and I've come to a very important conclusion: I hate Auto DM. Auto DM, or automatic direct messaging – or Damn Message, depending on my mood ...Read More
This post and subsequent discussions can now be found at the Professional Blog Service blog. Yesterday, I talked about how local health departments (LHDs) can use Twitter to communicate about and monitor public health emergencies. I also talked about how to ...Read More
This post and subsequent discussions can now be found at the Professional Blog Service blog. A couple years ago, I worked at the Indiana State Department of Health as the Risk Communication Director, otherwise known as "Oh shit!" PR. (Because that ...Read More
There's been all this talk about how Twitter is going to make money. They may charge businesses who use Twitter. They could mine their data and sell it to marketers. They could even sell ad space. (Personally, I'd like them ...Read More
In preparation for an upcoming panel discussion for the Confluence Northnetwork, and as I prepare for the Tweetup Twestival in Indianapolis (Twindianapolis?), I've been reviewing some of the different Twitter apps out there. I found five apps that can help ...Read More
Neal "Taffy" Taflinger, of Indy.com posted a blogging question on my Facebook page a few days ago: Question for you, Mr. Blogger Man - is it better to blog frequently so people know there is something to read or only as ...Read More
Over on my Laughing Stalk humor blog, I wrote about how British Schools Minister Jim Knight embarrassed himself last week when his blog contained several egregious spelling errors that made international news. The British press had a field day with Knight, ...Read More
Erik Deckers is a 14-year marketing and PR veteran, specializing in the written word. He has written everything from marketing copy to web copy to newspapers to radio and stage plays. He even collects examples of long copy sales letters, because he's weird that way.
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I had a commenter on my blog yesterday who -- rather rudely -- pointed out that in my post about British Schools Minister Jim Knight and his bad spelling, I spelled "embarrassing" wrong. I missed the second 'S.' (In my ...Read More
This is Embarrasing… Embarassing… Humiliating (My Problems with Spelling)