Posted in Commentary on May 21, 2010
It’s been a couple years now since our family started renting movies almost exclusively from Redbox. It’s just more convenient and less expensive than Blockbuster or Hollywood (are they still in business?), and we don’t mind driving to a Redbox location to pick-up and drop-off the movie (something we didn’t have to do when we [...]
Posted in Commentary on May 4, 2010
Here’s another informational and motivational video from Socialnomics author, Erik Qualman. This YouTube video (updated May 5, 2010) makes the case for the quick proliferation and adoption of new media.
Posted in Commentary on April 1, 2010
Here’s what happens when someone at the office decides to play an April Fools joke.
Posted in Commentary on March 3, 2010
For several years I have talked about the new role of communicating with family and friends as a form of entertainment. This concept has been dubbed ‘communitainment.’ I recently heard a story on NPR about the U.S. military’s video game that simulates fighting a battle. The video game has single-handedly resulted in more military recruits [...]
Posted in Commentary on February 16, 2010
I was both honored and happy to see a recent conversation on Twitter in which my name was mentioned with the likes of Seth Godin and Shel Holtz. The question, asked by @TiffanyWI: “If you could see any SM presenter… Who would it be?” One response, by @marthamuzychka: “@TiffanyWI Pete Codella @codella @ShelHoltz or Seth [...]
Posted in Commentary on February 5, 2010
A while back when my business revenues began a downward cycle — along with thousands of other businesses I might add — I received a letter from American Express informing me they had lowered my corporate card’s credit limit. They lowered it all right. They lowered it substantially below the balance that was due. And [...]
Posted in Commentary, Information on January 6, 2010
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that the employment of public relations practitioners is expected to grow by approximately 18 percent through the decade ranging from 2006 to 2016, faster than average for all occupations. CareerCast.com’s 2010 Jobs Rated report ranks the practice of public relations 79th and provides this career summary: If [...]
Posted in Commentary, Information on January 4, 2010
Last month I blogged about some predictions for 2010. My first prediction was for convergence of social media tools and technologies. I’m excited to read today that Seesmic has acquired Ping.fm (see the announcement on Mashable). Although I’m a fan of TweetDeck, which competes with Seesmic as a Twitter client, if Seesmic will give me [...]
Posted in Commentary on December 14, 2009
What’s the next Twitter? The traditional media’s social media darling of 2009 has to be Twitter. Sure, Facebook has seen staggering growth in adoption this year, but so has Twitter. And until this year, many people were still debating the usefulness of a publicly available and searchable type of global instant messaging conversation (that’s my [...]
Posted in Commentary on November 19, 2009
Yesterday I attended the 2009 Golden Spike Awards presented by the Greater Salt Lake Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and the Utah Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. I like how those two organizations partner here in Salt Lake to produce this annual awards program. It makes for good economies [...]
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