Posted on March 18, 2016 8:43 am by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Brands | Business | Channels | Internal | Marketing | Media | PR | Publishing | Transparency | Twitter
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 February 21, 2016 1:05 pm by Shel Holtz | Marketing | Mobile | Social Media | Transparency
Paid influencer assignments aren’t something I plan to do often, mainly because I want my content—on my blog, on Facebook, on Twitter, LinkedIn, and elsewhere—to be mine alone, focused on things I want to say and untainted by any doubt about why I’ve said it. It’s the same reason I don’t accept guest posts. After all, the purpose for nearly all of my content is to share what I…
Posted on February 19, 2016 10:22 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Content | Pinterest | Advertising | Brands | Business | Crisis Communication | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | PR | Publishing | Research | Social Media | Transparency | Twitter
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 January 29, 2016 9:34 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Content | Visual Communication | Brands | Business | Ethics | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | PR | Publishing | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Transparency | Trust
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 December 28, 2015 6:05 pm by Shel Holtz | Ethics | PR | Transparency | Trust
Public relations practitioners have, for decades, wearily accepted cynicism about our industry. We are spinmeisters. We help companies get away with doing the wrong thing. We put lipstick on pigs, deflect attention from problems, we piss off the journalists we rely on, we spam the web with non-news…
The criticisms and complaints aimed at PR are endless.
Part of the problem is visibility. Bad…
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.…
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