Holtz Communications + Technology

I’m knocking out this week’s Wrap from a hotel room in Cary, North Carolina. Feel free to check out Links from Shel, the link blog where I save all the various posts and articles from which I choose the items to appear in the Wrap (as well as those I’ll talk about on For Immediate Release.

(c) Can Stock PhotoThe Wrap is coming to you today from Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Client work wrapped up at noon, but my flight’s not until 7 p.m., so I’m ensconced in a guest office with nice, strong WiFi and an itch to summarize some of the most interesting posts and articles from the last seven days. If you ever want to see the…

(c) Can Stock PhotoIt’s time to wrap up the week with a look at some news and other posts that caught my eye. The complete listing of items I’ve bookmarked from which to select Friday Wrap items is, as always, at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com.

There was no hope that I’d be able to produce this Friday’s Wrap without some reference…

The importance of social platforms tend to emerge during natural disasters. The tsunami in Indonesia, Hurricane Katrina, and the Haiti quake all were accompanied by a surge in the use of various social media that demonstrated they were good for more than marketing campaigns and idle chat. YouTube, Twitter and Facebook all earned props for the important roles they played.

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(c) Can Stock PhotoWhat a Friday! I’m taking the rest of the day off to run a bazillion errands in advance of my daughter’s wedding on Sunday. But that won’t stop me from posting the Wrap, my weekly review of tech news of interest to communicators. If you want to see (or subscribe to) the full listing of articles I collect during the…

(c) Can Stock PhotoAnnouncements have been flying fast and furious this week, so it’s almost all hard news in the Friday Wrap, my weekly review of interesting reports from the previous seven days. Every time I find something I might want to include in the wrap (or on my blog or podcast), I save it to my link blog on Tumblr,…