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All week long I heard the coyote howl as the moon, a waning crescent, receded further. It is the season of the coyote, not just here in the Olympic Mountains, but throughout the land as Trickster reveals itself in many permutations. The Makah, on the coast of the Olympic Peninsula and the Colville east of [...]

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James Bond may have thought “You only die once,” and my mother Shirley, god rest her soul, used to say “Why die twice?” when I worried excessively. But apparently the Social Media Club believes that its mission is to repeatedly die like a poor fish flopping on a deck, gasping for air. Won’t some kind [...]

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I have been on to these Coolhunting guys for a couple of months, since they started the Swarm Creativity Blog in  a marketing push to support their new book “Coolhunting - Chasing Down the Next Big Thing” . Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper, co-authors of the book, were members of a live online Coolhunt for a month, ending in May, [...]

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The Social Media Club, which we declared dead here yesterday (with no refutation from its ‘leaders’), failed for several fundamental reasons:
- There was no social media. Throwing up a wiki or occasionally posting to a blog is not social media. First define it, then use it. Neither took place.
- There was no purpose. What were we [...]

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Somebody has to acknowledge the obvious so I may as well do it. The New York Social Media Club, floundering and searching for leadership and purpose, is dead. For months, members have been begging for direction, offering to help, to no avail. Howard Greenstein, who is supposed to be heading the thing in NY, does [...]

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Those are the words of Jodi Kantor (left) of The New York Times.  She recalls few times when she dealt with a PR person who really made a difference in a story, someone who was able to ‘anticipate’ what the Arts & Leisure section, which she used to edit, might need. It’s a digitial world [...]

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“I am committed to customer service for the rest of my life. Death is my exit strategy,” said Craig Newmark, Craig’s List founder and chief conscience, at the New York Social Media Club ‘un-meeting’ last night at Fleishman Hillard in the old Daily News Building on 42nd street.
Newmark said he spends most of his time on customer [...]

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