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Shel Holtz
Communicating at the Intersection of Business and Technology
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I still maintain the vast majority of Flash implementations on the web are awful. They take too long to load, they inhibit your ability to get to the information that brought you to the website in the first place, and they add nothing to the information the site conveys. But there are exceptions.

I ran across this elegant animation reading my…

Regardless of the other communication disciplines I have practiced—media relations, financial communications, corporate PR, the list goes on—I have always maintained employee communications as part of my portfolio. I believe deeply in the power of effective internal communications. The Globe and Mail made a point yesterday of reporting a Watson Wyatt Worldwide study that linked employee communications to bottom-line performance:

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I know, you get invited to these surveys all the time. Another grad student working on a thesis or dissertation tosses a survey up onto the web and asks for as many PR pros as possible to participate.

I have another one for you. This one comes from Leika Lewis, who’s pursuing her master’s at American University in DC. She attended the…

Content summary: Social tagging as an enterprise tactic; a look at the eyebrow-raising Strumpette blog; an update on our discussion of employee bloggers as authoritative sources; the CEO’s changing responsibilities: the example of Procter & Gamble; a new PR trade weekly in the UK; Dan York reports; listeners’ comments discussion (double-act via Skype; sharing FIR; the power of podcasting; Windows Vista communication;…

I have stayed away from the Strumpette fray. It struck me as a lose-lose proposition. Applaud Amanda Chapel (whoever he or she may really be) for injecting a bit of fun into the sometimes strident and self-important PR blogosphere and get flogged for endorsing an effort that drags PR back into the gutter from which we’ve been trying so hard to…

Back in late December, I wrote a post for my blog about the disagreement between Katie Paine and John Wagner over the value of measuring communication. For some unknown reason, the Ragan Report just covered this in its latest issue. Go figure. But Delahaye President Mark Weiner thought it was interesting enough to comment on, and his comment was inspiring…

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