Posted on September 22, 2014 4:31 pm by Shel Holtz | Content | Blogging | Location-based Services | Marketing | Mobile | QR Codes | RSS
Read enough digital media experts, and you’ll be convinced that any number of still-useful tools and channels aren’t worth your time, money, or effort. Usually the “{fill in the blank} is dead” meme is just hyperbole.
In general, new media don’t kill old media; old media adapts and often contracts, but doesn’t disappear and rarely is even marginalized. Based on their strengths, these channels and…
Posted on April 25, 2014 6:49 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Visual Communication | Brands | Business | Channels | Content Curation | Facebook | Internal | Location-based Services | Marketing | Mobile | Research | Social Media | Twitter
Big news has flown fast and furious this week, led by the FCC’s decision to turn its back on Net neutrality and support a “fast lane” for companies willing to pay for it. With all that, it’s even easier to miss some posts, stories and studies that could be useful. That’s why I produce the Friday Wrap, a summary of items of interest to communicators…
Posted on December 4, 2013 11:35 am by Shel Holtz | Books | For Immediate Release | Location-based Services | Mobile | Social Media | Technology
Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy explores the convergence of five technological factors—mobile, social media, data, sensors and location—and their present and future impact on everything from commerce to medicine to transportation.
FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz review the book in the context of an earlier FIR interview we conducted with the authors and two book…
Posted on October 11, 2013 9:01 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Brands | Business | Facebook | Location-based Services | Twitter
(c) Can Stock PhotoThe Friday Wrap is my weekly review of stories, studies and reports from the last seven days that may have slipped by unnoticed in the midst of bigger news. I collect the items I’ll consider for the Wrap in my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com.
Losing reputation is the biggest strategic risk for big companiesAsk a typical…
Posted on December 14, 2012 10:23 am by Shel Holtz | Pinterest | Brands | Gamification | Location-based Services | Marketing | Media | Mobile
I’ve accumulated a treasure trove of interesting items over the seven days. This week’s Wrap includes some of the juiciest. You can see all the items I’ve bookmarked on my link blog at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com.
Here come the predictionsAh, the holidays. A crispness in the air, Christmas tree lots, holiday music in malls and—the latest tradition—mountains of predictions for digital and social media for the upcoming year. Over…
Posted on July 20, 2012 12:46 pm by Shel Holtz | Facebook | Location-based Services | Mobile | Research | Search | Social Media | Twitter
(c) Can Stock PhotoA survey of some of the stories from the last week that caught my eye as they passed by in the stream
Gamification grows, even in B2BResearch group Gartner raised eyebrows with its projection that half of organizations that manage innovation processes will apply gamification to those efforts by 2015. A year earlier, Gartner said, more than 70%…
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