This blog often documents the changing ways that people communicate. I’m encouraged and optimistic about technology and what it means for relationships. However, not all eggs are sunny side up. With each new statistic about social media or platform adoption, there are consequences. I discovered two examples from the world of academia and wanted to [...]
We held another Lab 1321 session yesterday and it was extra peachy. We brought along a guest speaker (Justin Wyman from Collective Intellect) to help us discuss social media metrics and monitoring. It’s a topic full of values, measurements and data that dissects the impact of your brand and how you might expand your current [...]
As our online social lives become indistinguishable from the real-life stuff, new obstacles develop. Most of them can be solved by rebooting your computer or blocking an annoying user. Others require you to re-evaluate your online relationships and how meaningful they are. Take this AP story for example. In it, people grapple with what happens [...]
The closure of the Rocky Mountain News made a lot of people sad. Now it’s making a lot of people curious. A new header image over at IWantMyRocky.com has got people mystified and eager to find out more: The image appeared very recently and implies that something big is happening. The site itself is “a [...]
This is the first in a series of open letters to the Denver media from JohnstonWells Public Relations founder and chair Gwinavere A. Johnston. The views expressed in these letters are solely of the author. Dear Mr. Singleton: I know you’ve been busy putting out a Saturday edition, working out the kinks in your new [...]
People have been asking me whether or not having only one daily newspaper in Denver makes it harder or easier for those of us practicing public relations. First let me say that when I walked out to get the newspapers this morning – as I do every morning – it was sad not to pick [...]