Posted on November 13, 2017 8:46 am by Shel Holtz | Crisis Communication | For Immediate Release | Internal | Marketing | Media | Social Media | Trust | Twitter
Cross-posted from the FIR Podcast Network.
Neville Hobson joined host Shel Holtz for the monthly installment of the Hobson & Holtz Report. Neville and Shel had a chinwag (as Neville would say) about these topics:
- A follow-up to our KFC story (about 11 herbs and spices); the social media team struck again.
- Twitter has made its new expanded 280 character count available to…
Posted on October 20, 2017 9:57 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Instagram | Advertising | Audio | Brands | Business | Ethics | Facebook | Marketing | Media | Mobile | PR | Publishing | Social Media | Social networks | Trust | Twitter
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Richard Edelman calls for industrywide ethics principles—In the wake of the Bell Pottinger scandal in the UK, Edelman CEO Richard Edelman “called for the PR industry to adopt a new set of ethics principles…
Posted on October 6, 2017 7:26 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Content | Instagram | Wearables | Advertising | Brands | Business | Crisis Communication | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Marketing | Measurement | Mobile | PR | Publishing | Search | Social Media | Social networks | Transparency | Trust | Twitter | Video
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LVPD applauded for online response to massacre—While a torrent of fake news accompanied the horrific shooting in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Police Department was able to ensure accurate information was available by…
Posted on September 29, 2017 11:39 am by Shel Holtz | Data and Data Journalism | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Pinterest | Brands | Business | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Media | Mobile | PR | Research | Search | Social Media | Trust | Twitter | Video
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Twitter expands to 280 characters—Twitter’s 140-character limit will soon be a thing of the past. The company is expanding the limit on posts to 280 characters. Only some users have access (though several people have…
Posted on September 21, 2017 7:37 am by Shel Holtz | Business | PR | Technology | Transparency | Trust
Not everybody succumbs to the allure of every new technology.
In fact, the rapid introduction of new technology can leave people feeling overwhelmed and left behind. Believing that business is more interested in the revenue it can earn from these technologies than the impact they have on people creates suspicion and mistrust.
“The implications of the global trust crisis are deep and…
Posted on September 11, 2017 5:18 pm by Shel Holtz | Ethics | Social Media | Transparency | Trust
One of the first things I read this morning was a Facebook post from Peter Shankman. Peter shared three days’ worth of posts—September 11-13, 2001—from a mailing list on which he was active, hosted by the World Wide Web Artist’s Consortium. As Peter tells it, “The early morning hours of the list centered around the mundane, but quickly became hyperfocused on one obvious news story. As…
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