In Praise of Freedom
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutesComing relatively unscathed through the 2012 super derecho or land hurricane makes me especially grateful for freedom.
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Jul 2012
29
Sep 2010
How Pepco Can Power Up Its Communications
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Yesterday
I brought you up to speed on my conversations with Pepco and, more specifically, with Andre Francis, who manages the organization’s social media efforts.
Image: Féron Benjamin via Flickr, Creative Commons
As I continued thinking about it and how organizations approach social media in general, a couple of things became clear to me.
First, when companies – especially large ones – take the plunge into social media – they deserve our support, especially those of us who work in the field.
Who knows what […]
28
Sep 2010
Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media
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I haven’t been the biggest fan of my local energy company, Pepco, recently.
Granted, we’ve had some pretty crazy weather… and that tends to send the power diving down the tubes.
That, I understand.
But what really started getting on my nerves was how seemingly useless their communications were.
I ranted a fair amount about this, so I won’t repeat myself here.
To pick up where I left off
I was all set to do a humdinger of a post about how terrible Pepco was, particularly in its use of […]
13
Aug 2010
Still Just Another Day
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When I wrote yesterday would be not just another day , I had no idea how right I was.
Because it was not just another day.
I was literally five minutes away from heading to the Emergency Social Data Summit when a storm hit our area.
And what a storm.
The whistling wind would have put a banshee to shame.
Rain (hail?) clattered on the roof like the devil’s hooves in the middle of an Irish jig.