Best of TDR

While I’m taking care of things behind the scenes on this and other, yet-to-be-revealed publishing platforms, I rounded up some highlights of past content for your perusing eyeballs’ pleasure. Most, but not everything, is housed on this domain, and I’ve indicated where other links will take you.

Thanks for being patient, and please let me know your thoughts on anything you so desire in the comments.

/stacy

Social Media

• What my small town dentist can teach us about social media (November 13, 2008)
• The high school notebook – social media casualty? (January 8, 2009)
• The internet is one big expo – what is your booth like? (March 10, 2009)
• Facebook, LinkedIN, and Twitter are NOT the Holy Trinity (April 20, 2009)
• Social media lessons from water skiing (and vice versa) (May 3, 2009)
• Social media is like plastic baggies (May 17, 2009)
• Social media is not your brand’s “natural male enhancement” pill (June 11, 2009)
• A road trip down memory lane reveals the absurdity of what we now call “social media” (May 4, 2010)
• The secret to my (alleged) Twitter “success” revealed (June 27, 2010. Also featured on Social Media Today and on Ragan’s PR Daily… no archive on that one, though.)

Case Studies

• Someone in South Africa’s doin’ social media right! (WildEarth.tv case study, Part 1 of 2, February 9, 2009)
• Q&A with Graham Wallington, founder of WildEarth.tv (WildEarth.tv case study, Part 2 of 2, February 16, 2009)
• Verizon, I hope you’re listening. (August 2, 2009)
• Mozes provides mobile marketing miracles for mobs (February 22, 2010)
• Product launches: Why put on a circus when you could be like Disney World? (Not really a case study, per se, but it still fits. August 26, 2010)

Funny (kinda)

• Facebook thinks I’m old and fat. (January 29, 2009. Also featured on Social Media Today.)
• No More Social Networking on the Job! (February 27, 2009. Mad-Lib I contributed to Office Evil.)
• It’s time to play: Computer shortcuts I want for real life! (June 4, 2009)
• My 25 Words of Social Media Wisdom (July 30, 2009)
• Real Men of Genius: Social Media Edition (October 11, 2009)
• Facebook changes again; this time users can’t figure out how to protest (April 13, 2010)

Music

• Show Review: Amy Millan at Pike Room (Pontiac, MI — October 18, 2009 — includes video)
• Listener supported internet radio SomaFM (March 29, 2010)
• Barrett Strong & Eliza Neals bringin’ Motown back! (June 28, 2010 — includes video)
• New video by Carolyn Striho: “Sing it to Me” (July 19, 2010 — includes video)
• Natalie Merchant awakens from 8-year slumber with Leave Your Sleep, leaves lasting mark on Ann Arbor with two shows (August 3, 2010 — includes video)

Published on Detroit Unspun:

• Detroit Music Awards prove that music still keeps Detroit on the map (April 13, 2010)
  

WYCD Downtown Hoedown 2010

• Preview post: Detroit Rock City goes country for 2010 WYCD Downtown Hoedown
• Aussie superstar trio The McClymonts talk to Detroit Unspun (video interview)
• Meet Ashley Allyson – Metro Detroit native, Nashville recording artist, and rising star! (video interview)
• Genre-blending Hoedown headliner Colt Ford talks to Unspun (video interview)
• Singer-songwriter, Hoedown headliner Steve Azar finds Michigan “a special place” (video interview)
• Flickr photo set of shots I took on my BlackBerry
• A reflection on the 2010 WYCD Downtown Hoedown, and what it (and music in general) means for Detroit