Posted on July 26, 2013 8:04 am by Shel Holtz | Visual Communication | Brands | Business | Content Curation | Ethics | Facebook | Google+ | Marketing | Mobile | Twitter | Web
Image (c) CanStock PhotoYou have undoubtedly already heard about Facebook, which is suddenly a darling among investors again as its mobile advertising platform has taken off, stoking profits more in line with the market’s expectations when the company first went public. Data reveals that Facebook is beating out niche sites for local searches, and the number of mobile users in the U.S.…
Posted on July 19, 2013 8:34 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Pinterest | Advertising | Blogging | Brands | Business | Facebook | Marketing | Measurement | Mobile | Social Media | Social networks
(c) Can Stock PhotoEdelman sparked a lot of conversation this week with its report on PR’s role—and the need for ethical behavior—in the growing field of native advertising. I’ll talk about that, and some contrary points of view, on Monday’s episode of For Immediate Release. In the meantime, a lot of other news and research was shared during the past week, some of the most interesting…
Posted on July 5, 2013 1:39 pm by Shel Holtz | Instagram | Pinterest | Brands | Facebook | Marketing | Mobile | Social Media
Image (c) CanStock PhotoI hope my fellow American readers had a fantastic Fourth of July. I’m sure some of you are still enjoying a long weekend. Despite the holiday break, there was still plenty of news and no shortage of studies and reports released. This week’s wrap is heavily dominated by studies and surveys, but there’s also a new Twitter feature one can only…
Posted on June 28, 2013 9:07 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Instagram | Blogging | Business | Facebook | Intranets | Media | Mobile | Second Life | Social networks | Twitter
(c) Can Stock PhotoI was away much of this week at IABC’s annual world conference. The news kept pouring in—lots of it this week—making for a content-rich installment of the Friday Wrap. As always, I collect the stories from which I choose Wrap items on my link blog at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com. Add it to your reading list to stay up to date on all the…
Posted on June 14, 2013 7:12 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Facebook | Mobile | Social Media
(c) Can Stock PhotoIt’s easy, with the flood of content that passes by every day, to miss some significant or interesting news and announcements. The Friday Wrap is my weekly survey of some of the stories that weren’t necessarily big but that may nevertheless be worth a few seconds. As I find stories and posts worth saving, I use the Tumblr…
Posted on June 11, 2013 7:23 pm by Shel Holtz | Content | Media | Mobile
I’ve been procrastinating over diving into PressReader, a news app. I was given a free trial, but I didn’t quite get it the first time I took a quick look. My initial perception was that PressReader gives you access to over 2,000 newspapers and magazines from around the world, page by page, displayed exactly as the print edition looks.
It wasn’t until I had a…
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