I was really honored to be selected as a media blogger for the 500 this year (I'm covering it at my Laughing Stalk humor blog). I'm sitting up here with a lot of local talent, although there are a lot ...Read More

Rules for Being a Media Blogger

I just had an article published in a special report for members of the International Association of Business Communicators to communicate during the swine flu pandemic. (Cue the "Proud Moment" music!). Anyway, this inspired me to find other resources related ...Read More

Resources for Crisis Communication Through Social Media

This post and discussions are now taking place at my company's blog, Professional Blog Service. I used to be the Risk Communication Director at the Indiana State Department of Health and one of the things we prepared for over and over ...Read More

How Social Media Can Help the Public Avoid the Swine Flu

Are you using old school techniques to measure new media?

My friend and fellow social media guy Kyle Lacy asked a question on Smaller Indiana about whether we should measure Web 2.0 with Web 1.0 tools. The problem, Kyle says, is that Marketing 1.0 folks are expecting old school results with ...Read More

Don’t Measure Web 2.0 with Old School Expectations

Networking is not just for the salespeople anymore, especially at bigger corporations. HR, finance, IT, operations, and marketing all need to network. You do it for personal development (you meet new people who might open up new opportunities for you), professional ...Read More

What’s Going on with Confluence in Indianapolis?

A few days ago, Elizabeth Friedland (aka the Circle City Snark) wrote about the proliferation of social media professionals we have on the web these days. All of these interactive users are suddenly selling themselves as gurus, experts, geniuses, etc. But ...Read More

Social Media Professionals are more than just Power-Twitterers

Reporters and editors from the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News are starting their own online newspaper if they can raise $250,000 per month in subscription fees. The new InDenvertimes.com website needs to raise 50,000 pledges of $4.99 per month by April 23, ...Read More

Denver to Launch New Online Newspaper, Embrace Social Media. Finally.

I'm not going to repeat the same sad-but-scary stories of how newspapers around the country are folding up like, well, newspapers. No stories about the Seattle Post-Intelligencer going online-only, the Rocky Mountain News, the San Francisco Chronicle. No stories about ...Read More

How Small Newspapers Can Use Social Media to Grow Readership

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

How Health Departments and First Response Agencies Can Use Twitter to Monitor Emergencies, Part 2

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

How Health Departments Can Use Twitter to Monitor Public Health Emergencies

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