Wednesday May 8, 2024

5 Tips for Free, Easy Photo Edits

The news of Google’s latest service shutdowns means picture editing is no longer a Picnik for many bloggers, Flickr users and others. Google is shutting down Picnik and wrapping the technology into services like Google+. And while many die hard Picnik users are understandably miffed, the odds are good that several alternatives have come about to handily replace their de […]

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How to Record a Google Hangout Recording a Hangout for consumption elsewhere can be a smart approach to content development. Tweet This Post

Long Time Coming

Research in Motion (RIM) has been teetering on the edge of irrelevance since the debut of the Smart Phone.  A Blackberry is no longer the leading edge of business communications.  That is why this action is occurring too late in the company’s life.  As co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, stayed too long with their approach […]

Daughter’s swim meet [Flickr]

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Should PR People Be Able To Edit Otherwise Ignored Wikipedia Pages Of Their Clients To Correct Errors? | Techdirt There’s a middle ground in here somewhere. And I’m hoping we can find it. 3 Metrics that Will Change the Way You Market on Facebook Much like Google Analytics, you need to focus in on the […]

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Fastest-Growing Brands Are ‘Ideal-Driven’ 01/18/2012 This article shows how CSR has evolved. Good business is big business. Tweet This Post

Blackout

The effects of the one-day internet protest and blackout of sites like Wikipedia are still being tallied.  Congressmen and Senators are now backing away from SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), but the bill is not dead.  There is still pressure from content creators in Hollywood and elsewhere to do something about theft of intellectual property. […]

Cult

When you have a “fanboy” following, you can afford to be a cult like Apple with its intense secrecy.  Apple disproves the idea of transparency and flies in the face of management theory.  It also contradicts assumptions held dearly by communicators.  All this can be summarized into a sentence:  There are many ways to do […]

Future

No one is good at predicting the future and stories like this make for amusement later.  Extrapolating from the present to a distant time fails to take into account human creativity and events — adverse and opportunistic.  It is hard to say where we will be by the end of 2012, much less 100 years […]

Class Warfare

President Obama is pandering to voters in excoriating millionaires and billionaires.  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney dispatches that talk as the “politics of envy.”  From a PR perspective, the president has the more forceful message.  He is appealing to the largest block of voters who are only too ready to engage in class warfare.  Forgotten […]