Holtz Communications + Technology

I read a few posts that dismissed my argument that press releases still serve an important function: Complying with regulatory requirements for disclosing any news that could affect an organization’s share price. One of these comments, I recall, noted that failure to comply would be a small price to pay in return for the benefits that accrue to companies that switch…

Some people put up link blogs. Neville has one that talks about technology. Me? I needed a place to bitch and whine about travel. I didn’t want to do it in this blog, so I started a new one. It’s called Road Weary. You don’t have to read it. Honest. I created it as an outlet for frustration with various players in the travel…

Plenty has been written about the full feed vs. partial feed debate since Chris Pirillo switched from full to partial. As I understand it, the decision was based on subscribers to the full feed using the posts without pointing back to Pirillo’s site. By switching to partial feeds, you had no choice but to visit the site if you wanted to read…

I used to work for Mattel. From 1984 to 1988 I was a communicator at the company’s headquarters, then located in Hawthorne, California. I started out managing employee communications and was director of corporate communications by the time Mattel and I parted ways. During my time at Mattel, I came to understand that the company’s defense of its trademarks had assumed kneejerk…

Neville did a great job in an interview with PRWeek’s US edition about “For Immediate Release,” our twice-weekly podcast.

Interesting note from the Wall Street Journal’s Carl Bialik (by way of Frank Barnako’s Internet Daily about measuring the growth of blogs. The total number of blogs isn’t a relevant measure, Bialik suggests, since there is wide disagreement about the total number blogs (between 10 and 32 million). With new blogs being started and bloggers abandoning existing blogs, it’s a moving target at…