Gary Goldhammer –author and storyteller.
Content strategist, PR practitioner and marketer | digital and social media innovator | writer and author
Category: Technology
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Whenever I want to learn about some new communications trend or technology, I don’t turn to the blogosphere – at least not right away. First, I turn to the office next door, where my business partner, Linda Zimmer, is already far ahead of me. But now I can go online and find the same high…
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The First Age of blogging – the age of novelty – is coming to an end. It was fun, wasn’t it? The bloggers who blogged about blogging, the apoplectic glee over the beta releases of innocuous software tools, the autoerotic joy of being an “A-lister.” The professional communicators who urged their peers to start blogging,…
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The online world – for all its vastness, connectivity and influence – is insulated. That’s not a problem for most people, considering that the online world often makes more sense. But unlike your typical EverQuest player, I have to live in the real world, too. I was in the real world over the weekend –…
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Far be it from me to give advice to Apple’s Steve Jobs. In a few short years he’s managed to make Bill Gates his Salieri and Michael Eisner look like the Hunchback of Notre Dumb. I bought a PowerBook last year just to be safe, lest I die and find out heaven runs on Linux.…
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Time for a horn toot (or in light of the coming Jewish High Holidays, perhaps a Shofar) — our company was mentioned in a BusinessWeek article on tagging, as part of their "Best of the New Web" section. The article mentions how we incorporate tagging into our modern media seminars and training courses (we have…
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I agree with Steve Rubel that “big media” needs to evolve if it hopes to survive – and that includes embracing the audience as both a contributor to news and as a consumer of news. But this doesn’t mean, as Steve suggests, that media companies need to go to an all-blog format. Blogs are a…
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I always believed that computers would take over the world. In fact I prayed for it, figuring that quirks in binary evolution and chaos theory would make computers more intelligent than humans, or at least more intelligent than Ann Coulter, which can also be accomplished by crossing a Barbie doll with fresh vegetables. Google may…