Posted on October 6, 2010 10:35 am by Shel Holtz | New Media | PR | Research | Social Media
Over the years, I have chatted with people who work for museums. There’s Michael Edson, for example, whom I’ve interviewed twice for my podcast based on his work with the Smithsonian Institution. I’ve also met several museum communicators.
These interactions have given me some introductory insight into the job of a curator. There is more to it than simply collecting pieces and displaying them.…
Posted on March 18, 2010 6:47 pm by Shel Holtz | Media | PR | Research
The folks at Crikey are shocked—shocked—to find that 55% of the articles published in 10 hard-copy newspapers were sourced one way or another by public relations.
The author of the article in Crikey—an Australian digital-only news source—believes this to be a dubious statistic, a view supported by the headline that reads, “Over half your news is spin.” The author (whoever that may be, since there’s no byline on the…
Posted on March 2, 2010 10:05 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Research | Social Media
I recently heard a well-known online figure denounce the use of social media as a business strategy, insisting instead that social media will kill your brand. All you need for a successful business, he said, is a good product, solid customer service and a domain.
There are so many problems with this it’s hard to know where to begin. I could start with…
Posted on February 9, 2010 8:46 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Publishing | Research | Social Media
Warning: Long post follows.
Readers of this blog and listeners to my podcast, “For Immediate Release,” know thast I focus primarily on the impact of online media on organizational communications. As a blogger and a podcaster with an audience, companies routinely reach out to me with their news and information in the hopes that I’ll find their content interesting enough to share. It’s only about…
Posted on August 28, 2009 5:40 pm by Shel Holtz | Intranets | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Trust | Web
With only so many hours in a day, I have to choose where to commit my energy. As a result, some projects take a back seat. But after pondering two sets of data, I’m recommitting myself to my Stop Blocking initiative.
But it won’t do any good if I do this by myself. I need help to keep the wiki updated.
Bear with me, and…
Posted on August 25, 2009 9:30 am by Shel Holtz | Research | Social Media
At the SNCR fellows retreat this past weekend, several of the academics in the group lamented the lack of longitudinal research, studies that explore the various dimensions of social media over a number of years. Indeed, most studies present a snapshot in time.
Forrester Research contributes a longitudinal study with today’s release of The Broad Reach of Social Technologies, a $499, eight-page…
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