As anyone who has read this blog over the past few years knows, I’m the kind of blogger who blogs because I love to write, not because I want to make money blogging. Not that there’s anything wrong with bloggers who do it for the money or the swag or whatever other incentive…more power to […]
Archives for May 2012
Who “Owns” Content?
Seems like every other thing I’ve read this past week has been about curation and/or content marketing. Call me a snob, but something about the word “content” makes the writer in me cringe just a lil’ bit. Is that what writing has come down to–a delivery mode for marketing messages? Granted, in the context of […]
Why I Doubt Associations Will Become Filters for Digital Overload
I admit, I was surprised but happy to see the headline “Will Associations Become Filters for Digital Overload?” in the Huffington Post. Happy because I’m always glad to read things pertaining to associations outside the association bubble–or maybe I just don’t read the Huffington Post regularly and they always post about associations. Regardless, if you […]
Facebook Fails are Mounting
Despite the media frenzy over Facebook’s impending IPO, all isn’t 100% rosy for Facebook. Two things I’ve recently read highlight what I consider to be pretty big fails on Facebook’s part, and, were I considering investing in Facebook (which I never in a million years would do), would give me pause: Social Readers are collapsing. Wow, “frictionless […]
New Site, New Look
Inspired by the awesome-looking site my friend Jessica created for her new business, and always depressed with how crappy and uprofessional looking my blog is, I decided to bite the bullet and create an actual website. It still has a ways to go and I don’t actually have any reason to have a website at […]