Oct
23

12 Signs You May Be a Marketing Douchebag

Justin on October 23rd, 2009

Since I started highlighting the many kinds of Marketing Douchebags running loose on the Internet, I’ve had suggestions from readers who feel that they, too, have discovered some web-based chicanery that deserves to be celebrated for its guile.  But I have yet to meet anyone who’s had the presence of mind to actually turn himself [...]

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Oct
22

Why Journalists Are About to Become Obsolete

Justin on October 22nd, 2009

It’s a trying time to be a journalist.  One day, your beloved newspaper industry is collapsing because no one wants to pay a penny for what you’ve written.  But then the AP starts insisting that everyone needs to pay for everything you’ve ever said.  Your value is perpetually in flux, which makes matters of personal [...]

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Oct
21

5 Asinine Ways to NOT Win an Argument

Justin on October 21st, 2009

If social media is one big conversation, then persuasion is one key to propelling that conversation forward.  If nobody ever agrees on anything, we’ll never move beyond the same presumptions we began with, and our present state will never change — at least not on purpose. Yet, having witnessed just how ineffective people actually are [...]

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Oct
20

When Social Media Will REALLY Matter

Justin on October 20th, 2009

Proponents of social media love to cite all the ways these emerging tools are “changing the world.”  For example: Clay Shirky‘s Here Comes Everybody references dozens of marginalized groups from around the world who’ve united online to effect positive change in their lives, theologies and governments. Twestival provided clean water to third-world citizens via worldwide [...]

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Oct
19

10 Ways to Be a Social Media Asshole

Justin on October 19th, 2009

NOTE: This post originally appeared on my old blog earlier this year, but Randy Chambers reminded me of its existence last week.  In light of the ever-growing number of Marketing Douchebags out there, I felt the post was worth repeating. You may have heard that social media is “all about the conversation.” That may be [...]

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