Posted on June 15, 2012 9:35 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Content Curation | Marketing | Research | Social Media | Technology | Twitter
A review of some of the more interesting stories that have crossed my feeds in the last seven days.
If you’re The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC or another brand on the list of Twitter’s partner companies, your followers will soon be able to see something followers of no other account can see: more than 140 chararacters. These “expanded postings” will show video,…
Posted on May 18, 2012 9:29 am by Shel Holtz | Gamification | Google+ | Internal | Media | Search | Twitter
I review a lot of content during the week. Much of it comes from curated collections I follow, such as Smart Briefs. I get email updates from several sites, like AdAge and ZD Net. I subscribe to the RSS feeds of hundreds of blogs. I check the links that cross my Twitter stream, thanks to my Paper.li daily. I click…
Posted on January 23, 2012 1:20 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Facebook | Social Media | Social Networking | Twitter
Palo Alto Networks is out with its annual numbers on employee work time spent on social networks. The company’s conclusions are based on analyzing raw data from 1,600-plus companies for a seven-month period last year. Their press release on the study confirms something we already suspected: “explosive growth in global social networking and browser-based file sharing on corporate networks, with a 300…
Posted on January 16, 2012 2:37 pm by Shel Holtz | Crisis Communication | Facebook | Social Media | Twitter | Web
Zappos is a social media darling. The company’s adoption of Twitter, its encouragement of employees to engage online openly during work and CEO Tony Hsieh’s commitment to social channels are all trotted out regularly in articles, books and talks. I’m as gung-ho on Zappos’ use of social media as anybody.
One test remained, however. All of Zappos’ social activities have so far been employed in pursuit of…
Posted on November 2, 2011 10:09 am by Shel Holtz | Facebook | Google+ | Social Media | Social Networking | Twitter
A lot of hype accompanied the launch of Unthink. Most major news outlets carried the story of a decently-funded social network launching with the intention of being the iconoclast on the block, the one network that ensured your data was always your own. Unthink not only put Facebook in its sights, but Google+, too.
I asked around and found few people…
Posted on August 27, 2011 8:55 am by Shel Holtz | Marketing | PR | Social Media | Twitter
Amidst all the positive buzz Morton’s steak house generated with its delivery of a steak to Peter Shankman at an airport baggage claim, there’s also a fair amount of criticism, dismissal and snark.
In case you missed the story, Peter (founder of HARO, social media A-lister and all-around good guy) tweeted jokingly to Morton’s Twitter account that a porterhouse waiting for him when he landed…
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