Posted on May 15, 2015 7:45 am by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Economics | Content | Visual Communication | Wearables | Brands | Business | Channels | Facebook | Gamification | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | PR | Search | Social Media | Trust | Twitter | Video | Writing and Editing
A special note on this week’s wrap photo. That adorable newborn wrapped up in a hospital blanket? That’s my granddaughter, Madeleine Ann Holtz, born yesterday. Now, on to business: The Friday Wrap is a review of news, posts, reports, and other items appearing in the last week that will help you stay on top of the forces shaping communication in this…
Posted on March 26, 2015 9:29 am by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Business | Internal | Mobile | Trust
Most of the buzz around the mobile app Yik Yak is focused on universities, where its founders intended it would be used. Make no mistake. As surely as Facebook expanded beyond its university roots to become the top social network employees use in their day-to-day workflows, Yik Yak will make its way into the workplace.
The inevitability of employees adopting the…
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 January 23, 2015 4:07 am by Shel Holtz | Sharing and Collaborating | Content | Visual Communication | Wearables | Pinterest | Advertising | Brands | Business | Facebook | Marketing | Media | Mobile | PR | Research | Social Media | Trust | Writing and Editing
Flickr photo of Venice wrapped up in 2011 courtesyt of Kristina D.C. HoeppnerGreetings from 39,000 feet. I have a jam-packed day Friday, so I’m taking advantage of in-flight WiFi to crank out this week’s Wrap. As always the Wrap is a summary of the last week’s news, posts, and other good stuff that has crossed my feeds that may not have gotten a lot of…
Posted on January 16, 2015 10:30 am by Shel Holtz | Sharing and Collaborating | Instagram | Wearables | Pinterest | Advertising | Brands | Business | Content Curation | Customer Service | Facebook | Marketing | Media | Mobile | PR | QR Codes | Social Media | Social networks | Trust | Twitter
Flickr photo courtesy of WetsunThe new year is heating up, as evidenced by a record number of items in today’s Wrap. There’s even more in my link blog, where I collect all the items from the past week I think would be useful or interesting for communication professionals; you’re welcome to follow it.
Marriott backs down—Marriott International has withdrawn its petition to the U.S. Federal…
Posted on January 13, 2015 11:51 am by Shel Holtz | Advertising | Ethics | Media | Publishing | Trust
Last September, as one small part of an outreach program aimed at getting schoolchildren interested in engineering, ExxonMobil paid for one of those BuzzFeed quizzes. You know the ones I’m talking about: Answer a series of questions in order to learn whether you’d be Belle or Aurora if you were a Disney princess.
In this case, the answers determined what kind of engineer…
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