Gary Goldhammer –author and storyteller.
Content strategist, PR practitioner and marketer | digital and social media innovator | writer and author
Category: social media
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Journalists have more on their minds these days than the mere transformation of their profession. They are struggling with being just like everyone else. Journalists are used to being special. They are the only professionals with their own line in the U.S. Constitution — "Freedom of the press." That meant anyone could be a reporter,…
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(Originally posted at http://www.edelmandigital.com) The future of newspapers may well be in Colorado, once home to the late “gonzo journalism” provocateur Hunter S. Thomson and today home to no less that 12 free dailies. All of these papers are very local, and perhaps more importantly, successful. This trend is even more interesting in light of…
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I’ve had to take things a little slower lately, which for me means going from working about 70 hours a week to only 60 hours. Nevertheless, there’s great value in slow. Going slower makes you think faster. Slowing down can make you more productive. Slow works but doesn’t get enough credit. My colleague Steve Rubel…
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Our user profiles, who art online, hallowed be our names. Thy check-ins done, thy badges won, on Earth as they are on FourSquare. Give us this day our Facebook updates. And forgive us our overuse of emoticons and exclamation points, as we forgive those who tag us in old high school photos. And lead us…
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I’ve never liked the term Guru – it’s a throwaway word, much like Paradigm, Content, or Kanye. Plus, I wonder if calling a marketing person a “guru” is offensive to actual gurus, and whether by using the term I’ll get punished with some karmic payback, like being reincarnated as a Fox News anchor. But I…
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Being married for 18 years has taught me how to make excuses. Usually these excuses have little effect, other than to serve as a caustic reminder of just how little influence I have in my own house. Nevertheless, my excuse for not posting in the past couple months is a pretty good one: I’ve been…
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Inspired by a colleague who proclaimed that “books would be dead” in five years, I posed a tongue-in-cheek question on my Facebook page, asking “what will disappear first, books or the book review section” of newspapers? Expecting similarly tongue-in-cheek answers, I instead received this: “I read a story today in the New York Times Magazine…
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Finish the proposal Prep for conference call Review presentation deck Schedule brainstorm Read WSJ story Check RSS feeds Update Facebook status Respond to client e-mail Run a Tweet Scan Revise research memo Draft quick project update Plan business travel Get billing codes Wonder whether all of this will have been a mistake…if I should die…