Posted on November 23, 2012 11:59 am by Shel Holtz | Brands | Facebook | Google+ | Marketing | Research | RSS | Video
(c) Can Stock PhotoI hope all of my American friends and colleagues had a warm and fulfilling Thanksgiving. I spent mine in Las Vegas, where my wife’s brother and his longtime girlfriend are getting married on Sunday. The news doesn’t stop for holidays or family gatherings, though, so here’s a somewhat abbreviated edition of the Firday Wrap. As always, you are welcome to tap…
Posted on November 2, 2012 4:59 pm by Shel Holtz | Brands | Business | Crisis Communication | Ethics | Facebook | Marketing | Mobile | QR Codes | Research
(c) Can Stock PhotoThe weekend approacheth, but not before we look back on the last five days and the posts and articles that made an impression. If you’re interested in the pool from which these items were drawn, you can always dip your toes in at Links From Shel.
An algorithm for predicting Twitter’s trending topicsIf somebody was going to come up with a…
Posted on October 31, 2012 2:15 pm by Shel Holtz | Research | SNCR
At every SNCR event I attend, there’s always a first-time participant who marvels that it’s the most worthwhile social media event she or he has attended. “Why don’t more people know about this organization?” they always ask.
Events from SNCR—the Society for New Communications Research—aren’t glitzy and don’t necessarily attract all the cool kids. They are an exercise in substance over style. Instead of the same old tired sessions, SNCR’s…
Posted on October 5, 2012 12:26 pm by Shel Holtz | Instagram | Visual Communication | Pinterest | Brands | Facebook | Measurement | Mobile | QR Codes | Research | Twitter
(c) Can Stock PhotoAnnouncements have been flying fast and furious this week, so it’s almost all hard news in the Friday Wrap, my weekly review of interesting reports from the previous seven days. Every time I find something I might want to include in the wrap (or on my blog or podcast), I save it to my link blog on Tumblr,…
Posted on September 7, 2012 1:22 pm by Shel Holtz | Brands | Business | Intranets | Legal | Measurement | Media | Mobile | Monitoring | Research | Social Media
Image (c) Can Stock PhotoDid you miss me last week? The Brazil trip turned into a longer stay than I planned, thanks to airport closures due to Hurricane Isaac. But I’m back, so let’s wrap the week! This is my (mostly) weekly review of items that crossed my newsfeeds over the last seven days that are interesting enough to report but didn’t…
Posted on September 6, 2012 11:51 am by Shel Holtz | Attention | Research | Social Media
Listen to enough hysterical warnings and dire forecasts and you’d think that information overload is leading us to some kind of bleak, post-apocalyptic future. In an Advertising Age column he wrote back in 2007, Edelman Senior VP Steve Rubel said, “A crash is coming, folks. But this time it’s not financial—it’s personal.” The attention crisis, he said, is an epidemic. “There’s no more room at the inn. People will cut…
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