Recently I’ve had nearly identical conversations with two reporters I know and respect. They were both complaining about the content on Forbes.com, citing features from the past year like top beaches — pieces that are closer to the content expected from USA Today, and further from what is expected from Forbes.
My comment to each, in [...]

As an admitted emotion-whore, I bestow L-O-V-E on commercials that evoke tears or outbursts of laughter.

Christine Ryder & Andy Barnett Bring Further Expertise in SEO and Digital Marketing to Growing Online Segment of Users Who Aren’t Guys

Interviews Held in Dark Room Apparently Didn’t Tip Off New Hires
St. Louis (March 17, 2010) – Elasticity, a leading digital word-of-mouth marketing agency focusing on the triangulation of social media, blogger outreach, and [...]

This is not an indemnification of the industry as a whole, only to say this: lighten up, you may just actually be more effective as an agency/industry if you do.

I read a lot of blogs. Funny ones, blogs on news, sports, midgets, mustaches, the Muppets, and so on.
The ones I read on PR, social media and marketing are a mixed bag. Generally most people are trying to say something that would be perceived as being immensely smarter than the person before them by throwing [...]