Posted on December 23, 2016 11:55 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Wearables | Brands | Business | Channels | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Measurement | Media | Mobile | Podcasting | PR | Research | Second Life | Social Media | Social networks | Technology | Twitter
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NewsTwitter testing notifications for breaking news—Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey insists that Twitter is a news platform, a channel for sharing what’s happening right now. Reflecting its desire to be a news app, the company has…
Posted on July 8, 2016 9:18 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Sharing and Collaborating | Content | Visual Communication | Advertising | Brands | Business | Channels | Ethics | Marketing | Measurement | Media | Mobile | PR | Publishing | Research | Second Life | Social Media
The Friday Wrap is my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items that flew under the radar while other stories grabbed big headlines. As always, I collect material from which I select Wrap stories (as well as stories…
Posted on July 4, 2014 8:31 am by Shel Holtz | Brands | Business | Channels | Facebook | Marketing | Measurement | Mobile | Publishing | Second Life | Social networks | Writing and Editing
Flickr image courtesy of Epic FireworksTo all my fellow Americans, a very happy Fourth of July. To all my friends and colleagues from around the world, happy Friday! The Friday Wrap (which is what you’re reading) is a curated rundown of news, reports and posts from the past week that, while they didn’t go viral or attract much attention, are still…
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 August 25, 2008 8:34 pm by Shel Holtz | Second Life | Web3D
You don’t read too much any more about Second Life in the communications corner of the blogosphere. Early clumsy efforts by companies to market real-world products in Second Life mostly bit the dust, leading pundits to dismiss it—and other virtual worlds—as a venue for gamers and the socially inept not worth investment or attention. The dismal failure (so far) of Google’s Lively hasn’t helped…
Posted on May 17, 2008 12:09 pm by Shel Holtz | Research | Second Life | Web3D
In Chicago a week or so ago I got together with a friend; we both live in the Bay Area, but it’s one of those quirks of travel that we could only get together when we were in another city at the same time). Gabe is working for a company that is developing a new virtual world. The company hasn’t announced the nature…
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