It’s been a few months since we last checked in on Pinterest. When we first started hearing about this little site that used “pinning” to share ideas, interesting odds and ends, and cool stuff found around the web, we thought it was the next step in streamlining all those tidbits people post on Facebook and Twitter that may work better to serve an audience already primed to readily accept those things we once cut from magazines or gleaned from a personal email. Continue reading
Certainly, I’ve been more bored in my life. Usually, as a journalist, I’m being paid to be bored to death. This time, at this conference on how health care industries can use social media to enhance their public relations and marketing, I had paid almost two hundred bucks to observe massive piles of old news.
There was, of course, the gigantic movie-style screen on the center of the stage of the auditorium of the midtown facility, showing endless PowerPoint slides. Continue reading