Mike’s Points

While I am still alive and kicking, blogging has (unfortunately for me) taken a third-row backseat to life’s other activities. As noted before, I tend to find blogging (or just writing in general) therapeutic and a good way to crystalize things (See bottom of post for reference.). While there are a lot of great issues and other bloggers’ posts to write about, I try not to be one to whip out a post without much thought into it. (I’ve been lazy before, and got burned.)

But, I have come across several great posts and other tidbits (a.k.a. points, hence the headline) and I offer them up now to you for your digestion:

Will we never learn?, a shel of my former self/Shel Holtz

PR-Squared’s ‘Social Media Tactics’ Series…Edgework with Social Bookmarking, PR Squared/Todd Defren

Social Media Bandwagoning, Media Guerrilla/Mike Manuel

Are skateboarders more savvy than social media experts?, Canuckflack/Colin McKay

Blogger Relations: Good Intentions, Bad Execution, Lessons Learned, PR Squared/Todd Defren

REFERENCE: TOOLS: HANDBOOKS: A Selective and Brief Guide to Handbook, Temple University/David Dillard (from the Young PR Pros Yahoo! Group)

God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule, The Onion (courtesy of Chris Thilk, I think, but can’t find his Twitter about it.) (NOTE: Some readers may not like some of the language, but the point is very clear.)

The iPhone is a piece of s&%$ and so is your face, TheBestPageintheUniverse (I’m neither an Apple groupie nor a hater, but did see the humor in this. Again, parental discrepency is advised.)

That is right. The Internet Generation is savvy when it comes to all things Internet.

A classic example occurred when my oldest son had a Harry Potter birthday party last month. Among the “potions” my wife concocted for my son and his friends to make or see, was “leech juice and frog eyes.” As you can tell from the audio, there was no fooling these fourth graders. They knew it was Diet Coke and Mentos.