Everybody wants to be the last person to move to Westwood. That’s how one resident summed up a controversy over plans to build a horse stable and operate an “elite dressage barn.” I’ve put myself in the midst of controversy by blogging about it at WestwoodBlog. And I believe I am learning some principles that [...]
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Social Media
Public Conversations and Public Relations 2.0
by Dave Atkins on December 16, 2008
My Social Media Strategy
by Dave Atkins on December 1, 2008
For a long time, my engagement with social media has not been organized. But now, much as we go through our holiday card lists, I’m looking at how I can use social media to connect and reconnect with everyone I know. The Big Three Social media and networking encompasses so many sites that it is [...]
Sunday night I described my personal brand as a technology leader with over a dozen years experience planning, developing, and operationalizing web technologies. I asked for help matching that background up with opportunities. A number of people have asked me about consulting and freelancing–e.g. “what’s your hourly rate?” I can create a strategy for utilizing [...]
Why Blogging can be Better Journalism than the New York Times
by Dave Atkins on August 5, 2008
Sunday’s New York Times Week in Review included a front section article on how bloggers are beating up on John McCain for his lack of internet savoir faire. But author Mark Leibwich made the same error I did when I first commented on a blog post a week or so ago–he invoked the image of [...]
Blogging a Business Plan
by Dave Atkins on July 17, 2008
Blog experts say not to post things like “what you do want me to blog about?” because it’s gutless and demonstrates you don’t have a clue what you’re writing about. Well, I’m going to go one step further than that and start a thread here on what could be a business plan for this site. [...]
I’m an inherently disorganized person, but I manage to get a lot of things done. It really is as simple–and challenging–as finding time. There is no balance to be had in life. We cannot plan, predict, or organize our lives so that we create the time we need, when we need it. Something always interrupts [...]
My company’s CEO is about to start blogging and solicited input on what blogs we read. Ever mindful of an opportunity to work “double-time” I decided to blog about what I read here and send her a link… I do not sit around reading blogs all day. I use Google Reader to follow about 20 [...]
The New York Times story of writers “blogging until they drop,” is the kind of silly story we worry our parents will read. Don’t worry Mom, I’m not going to blog myself to death. But upon closer examination, the story did make me think about my own limited, idealistic perception of this field. My first [...]
When I first learned of twitter, the service that allows you to broadcast little 140 character messages about whatever you are doing at the moment, my thought was, “Why?” As you can see from the right side of this page, I became a convert and even rigged up a widget on this blog to broadcast [...]
Last Sunday, news talk shows focused on what the Democrats should do about Florida and Michigan. A consensus seemed to be emerging that the Democratic party should pay to conduct a massive do-over primary by mail. Given the limited time available and the political obstacles to any other scheme, that’s probably not a bad idea. [...]