Twitter is having issues again. Unfortunately, the problem this time isn’t as obvious as the massive fails that have kept them off-line recently. This time, it’s something way more problematic for you and me and provides another great example of how companies that don’t get social media can hurt themselves. Even companies right at the social media epicenter! Continue reading
Category Archives: Reality checks
Woodstock
I was at Camp Greylock 40 years ago when a half million of “you kids” (Max Yasgur‘s term) got together and showed the world that things were changing yet again. Those of you old enough will remember how turbulent and divisive a time it was. Dr. King and Bobby and been killed, Vietnam was raging, there were frequent violent demonstrations in the streets of our country. But for three days, were saw what was possible with an open mind. Continue reading
Filed under Growing up, Reality checks, What's Going On
Good question!
I’m sure this has been around the web a few times. Maybe you got it in an email from someone, maybe you read it on another blog. It’s a true story. In
fact, according to Snopes, The Washington Post won a Pulitzer in the feature writing category for Gene Weingarten‘s April 2007 story about this experiment. If you’ve read it before or heard about it, I apologize. No, strike that. Read it again. It’s a great question! Continue reading
Filed under Huh?, Reality checks


