April 2009
5 posts
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What Columbine Taught me about Crisis...
Ten years ago, I was living and working in Colorado for Jefferson County Public Schools. I left a startup in the Seattle area for the school district communications department where I was a twenty-something school district administrator primarily responsible for research and “high tech” communications. It was an unbelievably enriching time both personally and professionally. While...
Apr 20th
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Dominos Responds to Brand Crisis Through Social...
Dominos Pizza employees posted a YouTube video of themselves at work at a Conover, N.C. Dominos. One films the other intentionally sneezing on a sandwich, putting the cheese in their nose and doing other unseemly things to the food before delivering it presumably in :30 or less. According to the New York Times, “By Wednesday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than a million times on...
Apr 17th
1 tag
Generate Word Clouds with Wordle
Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text, sites or blogs. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the provided text. It’s a great visual representation of recent coverage, your company blog, or what you’ve been tweeting about most recently. With a Wordle word cloud, you can create a powerful visualization that gives readers a sense of...
Apr 8th
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Susan Scrupski (ITSinsider) Joins ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb, the Web Technology news blog, announced today: “Susan Scrupski (a.k.a. “ITSinsider”) has joined ReadWriteWeb as VP Enterprise Content and Programs. Starting today, Susan will assume responsibility for building our editorial and expertise in applying the principals of Web 2.0 to the Enterprise. With a focus on how the Web is disrupting traditional business...
Apr 7th
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Twitter's Biz Stone on The Colbert Report
The week during which Twitter has been everywhere culminated in an appearance on The Colbert Report and a rumor that Google and Twitter were in late stage acquisition talks. Twitter needs to worry about media over-saturation. It seems the company has been everywhere from CNN and FOX to Today to Colbert and the Daily Show. The social media buzz is all about gauging the probability of...
Apr 4th