Posted on August 27, 2004 8:09 am by Shel Holtz | General
I’ve been an advocate of message boards—particularly on intranets—for years. Now that blogs are on the radar screens of more and more communicators, I hear the observation: “So blogs are just like message boards, right?”
Well, yes and no. Lee Lefever, author of the Common Craft blog, does an excellent job of articulating the differences.
Posted on August 27, 2004 7:39 am by Shel Holtz | General
Neville Hobson writes about Ned Lundquist’s Job of the Week. I was one of the very first subscribers to a list that has grown to the thousands. Job of the Week lists communication job notices posted by the participants. Ned just aggregates the contributions and sends it out. Be sure to read Neville’s post, which includes links to a Wall Street Journal…
Posted on August 26, 2004 7:57 am by Shel Holtz | General
PR bloggers everywhere are writing about a post in Streamline titled PR is dead and blogging killed it. In the post, Rich Tanglao outlines a presentation he made to a communications agency that delves into the nature and growth of the blogging phenomenon. The headline is a laugher. They said television would kill radio, too. (And as long as we’re challenging this…
Posted on August 25, 2004 12:45 pm by Shel Holtz | General
If you haven’t seen the parody of “This Land is Your Land,” which blasts President Bush and John Kerry with equal vigor, I have to wonder what desert island you’ve been stranded on. I’ve had at least 50 e-mails directing me to this hilarious bit of animation from JibJab Media Inc.
Ludlow Music, Inc., publsiher of the classic Woody Guthrie tune, didn’t think it was funny. They thought…
Posted on August 12, 2004 12:32 pm by Shel Holtz | General
I’m heading off to vacation—I think. My wife, daughter, a friend of my daughter’s, and I are scheduled to disemark from Port Canaveral, Florida, Saturday afternoon. Our flight is scheduled to land in Orlando Friday afternoon. Given the two hurricanes in the area, tomorrow’s travel will be an adventure and Saturday’s sailing date a question. Assuming we do get to the cruise ship, though, it’s…
Posted on August 12, 2004 12:20 pm by Shel Holtz | General
When I need a business phone number, I go to the yellow pages on Yahoo. When I want to know a sports score, I turn to ESPN. (In fact, if the Dodgers are playing and the game isn’t being broadcast up here in the Bay Area, I pull up a Java-enabled gamecast that allows me to follow the game pitch-by-pitch.) I pay…
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