Well, I can’t sing beautifully like my good friend Kami Huyse, who tagged me in the media snackers meme started by Jeremiah Owyang. Geoff Livingston already did the pet exploitation thing so I can’t leverage my dogs and cats, even though my puppy is REALLY cute.
While I’ve been known to invoke my child on this blog occasionally, and on my photo blog Snapshot Chronicles all the time, I can’t quite figure out an angle for him here, other than that he is pretty much a media snacker in the making.
Many others playing this lovely game have already talked about Twitter and Delicious media snacks, and while they are yummy, I won’t serve them again here. One needs variety.
And that’s the first way this blog feeds the media snacker. Variety. I have a wide variety of interests, and I mention them all here. Always with a marketing and communications angle. So, one day you’ll find a post about SciFi Channel, with a heavy dose of Battlestar Galactica. And the next day, a gender rant. Followed by something completely different. Like politics and the presidential election. Stick around, you’ll find all sorts of different snacks.
I regularly do round-up posts of different, usually unrelated things that interest me, most recently a post called Thirteen to One in honor of the Red Sox win in the first World Series game. Some items are almost "mini-posts," other items just one line. Easy to scan, not hard to follow. Snack food.
Sometimes I write long. When I do, I put a long post warning at the top. If the topic greatly interests you, you’ll sit down, set for a while. If it doesn’t, you won’t get sucked in and then pissed because the post goes on and on and on and on…..
Sometimes I’m funny. They say. You be the judge. Not as funny as some of my esteemed colleagues who are about to get tagged, but hey, I still have my pride.
And finally, even though I respect the right of someone to "read and run," I do hope they stick around for a while, once in a while. Pull up a chair at the table and read some of my longer posts. Comment on them. Challenge my arguments. Nothing pleases me more than comments on this blog, and particularly those from students and young professionals who, although they may be the "snacking generation," are clearly taking the time to dig in and learn. And in the process, they become part of our education.
And that is the most delicious snack of all. We are all teachers. We are all learners. YUM!
That’s it. Don’t want you to get too full.
I’m tagging David Wescott, Scott Baradell, Robert French, Sherrilynne Starkie and Sam Whitmore.
Tags: media snack, Jeremiah Owyang, Kami Huyse
I have to say that I continue to read your blog BECAUSE of the variety. Along the way, we have also become friends, which is a bonus. And by the way, the 13 to 1 has been a great smorgasbord. Aren’t you glad Jeremiah came up with this meme, it’s one of the best that I have ever been “served.”
I like the idea of a “long post warning” and the fact that you serve up a buffet line of a variety of snacks. Thanks for adding your voice to the meme and for Kami to directing me here from Twitter.
I’ll have you know I had to walk that fat pug for hours this weekend!
That’s a new one I’ve not heard, interesting. Variety as a way to respect the media snackers. brilliant!
Well done – I think we should call your style “Dim Sum” PR – a little of this, a little of that, something for everyone…
Thanks for the comments. Variety is after all the spice of life.
I’m sure it also makes it a little harder to categorize this blog. Is is marketing? Is it PR? No it’s both with all sorts of extra ingredients too.
I’m just glad that people enjoy it. Whatever it is 🙂
I am a student of Robert French’s and I love your blog because it is so pleasantly random. It amuses me that I never know what your next post will be about (Marketing Roadmaps is like a box of chocolates….?), but you always relate it to marketing/communications, which I find interesting and insightful. Thanks for mentioning the students. We really are soaking up as much knowledge as possible and it is extremely helpful to get valuable information from pro’s in the biz, especially when it is actually interesting to read.
Alana
P.S. Your next post should be a tribute to the World Series Champs!!
I loved this post! It was amusing and entertaining, as usual. I enjoy reading your blog because you relate pr, marketing, and communications to every day things in analogies that just seem to make it all click.
Beyond this your messages are insightful. I can’t wait to see what you will talk about next! The social media world is still very new to me, but it is a learning process. It is reassuring to hear that enjoy or feedback and recognize the importance of what we are learning. Thank you!
I love your blog.
Happy Halloween!