Posted on June 23, 2023 1:31 pm by Shel Holtz | Crisis Communication | PR | Social Media | Social Networking | Trust | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Online disinformation and misinformation have long been a thorn in the side of organizations. The rapid spread of false information, fueled by individuals who believe and share it, poses a significant challenge. After all, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it,” as Jonathan Swift astutely observed back in 1710. (The Americanized version has a lie circling the globe before the truth gets…
Posted on April 20, 2017 3:20 pm by Shel Holtz | Social Media | Social Networking | Social networks | Technology
There is so much hyperventilating over Mastodon, the upstart social network du jour, that it’s easy to drop it into the same bucket as all the other presumed Twitter killers moldering in their digital graves.
Which is exactly what a lot of people are doing. Without even giving it a once-over, they remind their followers of Ello, Plurk, Jaiku, and the laundry list…
Posted on September 16, 2016 11:00 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Wearables | Pinterest | Brands | Business | Channels | Content Curation | Customer Service | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Marketing | Media | Mobile | Politics | PR | Research | Social Media | Social Networking | Twitter
I extract items for the Friday Wrap from my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow.. To make sure you never miss an issue, subscribe to my weekly email briefing. This week, an unusual amount of Twitter news crossed my feeds, so I stuffed it all in a dedicated Twitter section.
NewsFBI’s advice: Tape over your webcam—Straight from FBI Director James Comey: It’s just…
Posted on June 26, 2015 1:00 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Visual Communication | Wearables | Business | Channels | Measurement | Media | Mobile | PR | Research | Social Media | Social Networking | Twitter
Flickr photo of statues wrapped up on the Harvard campuscourtesy of Frank Hebbert
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. I collect material…
Posted on March 12, 2015 3:16 pm by Shel Holtz | External | Social Media | Social Networking | Transparency | Trust
I would have missed the news out of South Carolina if not for a podcast. I learned that the state has a new policy forbidding employees from using social media on official devices from Tom Webster and Mark Schaefer, who talked about it on their Marketing Companion show. (It’s a terrific show. Listen to it.)
I disagree with Tom and Mark’s conclusion, though.…
Posted on September 19, 2014 8:36 am by Shel Holtz | Sharing and Collaborating | Content | Augmented Reality | Brands | Business | Channels | Facebook | Gamification | Legal | Marketing | Measurement | Media | Mobile | PR | QR Codes | Research | Social Media | Social Networking
Flickr image—“Wrapped Up Dinosaurs”—courtesy of Matt BrownWelcome to the Friday Wrap, my weekly summary of stuff I’ve found in the last seven days that didn’t grab the big headlines but is still important, interesting, and/or worthwhile for communicators and marketers…and this week ranks up there among the most interesting collections of stories since I started the wrap. I collect these on my link blog, which you’re welcome to…
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