Look at me!

There have been a couple of incidents over the past few days that have highlighted for me what I call the dark side of social media: our obsession with attention. Don’t get me wrong. I love attention. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be on Twitter, Facebook or this site. If I didn’t like the limelight, I wouldn’t be in PR and I certainly never would have been a musician or been the host of...

Give and get

Photo courtesy of Andrea Kerbuski Just under a year and a half ago, I starting using Twitter “seriously.” In other words, I sucked it up and retried a service I previously thought was fairly useless. At the time, it seemed like just one more channel of information to have to monitor. It hurts to admit that, because since then I have become a Twitter evangelist. It is by far my favorite social network...