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Posted on January 9, 2015 8:47 am by Shel Holtz | Visual Communication | Advertising | Augmented Reality | Books | Brands | Business | Ethics | Facebook | Intranets | Legal | Marketing | Measurement | Mobile | PR | Research | Social networks | Transparency
Flickr photo of Cristo art at the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995courtesy of Zug55The Friday Wrap is my weekly review of news items, blog posts, reports, and studies from the last week that could be useful to communicators but weren’t the stories that got the big headlines. I collect items from which I draw the Friday Wrap’s selections in my link blog,…
Posted on December 5, 2014 8:13 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Brands | Business | External | Facebook | Marketing | Media | PR | Research | Skype | Social Media | Transparency | Video
Photo (c) United States Navy (photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Gregory E. Badger)Here’s today’s Friday Wrap, my selection of articles and posts from the past week that are important or useful for communicators, but that didn’t necessarily get a lot of attention. I curate these items from my link blog, where I save everything I find interesting from a communications perspective; it’s also…
Posted on September 24, 2014 3:20 pm by Shel Holtz | Economics | Business | Ethics | PR | Transparency | Trust
Flickr photo courtesy of mSeattleThe importance of a genuine commitment to corporate social responsibility is growing more and more clear. Study after study finds consumers are making conscious decisions to avoid doing business with bad actors and greenwashers, and to spend their money (and make their investments) in companies that are sincere about trying to do well by doing good.
Several…
Posted on August 1, 2014 7:04 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Advertising | Brands | Business | Content Curation | Customer Service | Facebook | Internal | Marketing | Measurement | Mobile | PR | QR Codes | Research | Social Media | Transparency
Flickr photo courtesy of Shanthanu BhardwajThe 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 interesting and useful for communications professionals. I select Wrap items from my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow.
NewsCPRF launches digital working group—The Council of…
Posted on July 23, 2014 1:58 pm by Shel Holtz | Content | Brands | Marketing | Social Media | Transparency
I just crawled out of the corporate values statement rabbit hole.
For a couple hours, I have been reading the values statements of dozens of organizations. I kept at this thankless task in search of one—one—that explicitly listed communication as a value.
A good values statement articulates a company’s approach to its very existence. A vision statement sets a target; the vision is what the…
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