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A dear friend, Jim, and I try to get together for lunch occasionally to catch-up with one another. We try every two months, but every two months usually turns into every three to four months.  Recently, I was sitting at work checking my Twitter account when I saw a FourSquare check-in from Jim that was posted mere minutes prior. He was at Breadline which, lo and behold, is just a five minute walk from my...

Xenophon News

We’ve all seen it—the latest and greatest new social media tool that is going to change life as we know it!

Really?

It’s been fascinating seeing all the progressions made on the social media front, especially in the past five years or so. I distinctly remember when I first learned about Facebook back in fall 2004. I was working at KOMU in Columbia, MO and a colleague of mine came up and the conversation went something...

Blake Rhodes

“What do they know?  They don’t even come to the games.” That was the widely held disdain for bloggers among communications professionals in professional sports as recently as two years ago.  In fact, you can count yours truly among those who felt that way.  In fact, that was my comment to a colleague a few seasons ago when I was the director of media relations for the San Francisco Giants.

Times change!  So has the communications business....