Finding a 2007 blog post about a condom and a cheeseburger made a friend ask if student blogs should be moved off-domain. My flippant answer was “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.”
His retort was simple and quick: “Tell that to the catholic church.”
It stung. He had me, I was sure. It’s hard for many [...]

Posted January 14, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: bad publicity, blogging, catholic church, church sex abuse, lessons, PR, public relations, publicity, reputation management, scandal, social media. One Comment.

I probably spend too much time considering competition and change management, but just as I figured I was done with it for the week, a comment from Kathryn Greenhill regarding Model Ts got me going again.
Just like railroads, those “any color as long as it’s black” Model Ts looked like freedom, until General Motors [...]

Posted September 13, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Politics & Controversy. Tags: bill ford, change management, edsel ford, henry ford, innovation, lessons, markets, model-t. 2 Comments.

I can’t help but like microformats, and part of that comes from the dogmatic principles that drive them. Among those is the notion that none of us should attempt to create a format out of whole cloth. Here’s how they explain it:
Under the title of “Propose a Microformat” they tell us: “Actually, DON’T!!!”
ask yourself: “are [...]

Posted February 17, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: dogma, interoperability, lessons, microformat, software development, standards. 2 Comments.