I have vivid memories of the Boston Marathon from growing up in the Boston metro area. The Marathon came right down Route 16 through the middle of Natick where we lived. We used to watch the fun from the top of the parking garage at Newton-Wellesley Hospital where my step-father worked. Later, after college, I lived [...]

I read that Google Reader was closing on Google Reader. I have a folder in Reader named ‘Critical’ that contains key feeds from Inside Facebook, The Official Google Blog, etc. and I try to always scan that folder at least every couple of days. For those of you not familiar with Google Reader, that’s the [...]

Twitter launched Vine on Thursday. Vine lets users create and share videos lasting up to six seconds. Building on the huge success of Instagram, Vine users can follow other people, whose posted videos show up in a feed on their phones and can be easily shared. On Monday, four days after its release, hard-core pornography [...]

I’ve always been a fan of frameworks such as Forester’s Groundswell that help you think through marketing options for emerging media. Having a structured way to sort out the (wonderful) chaos of social media helps you figure out ways to achieve your objectives. Recently, I was looking for some information on International Social Media use [...]

I’m grumpy. This Saturday morning I got up with a cup of coffee and set out to look at my RSS feeds for news on the web. For those of you not familiar with RSS, it’s a RSS is a content delivery vehicle. You could think of RSS as your own personal wire service. I [...]