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Shel Holtz
Communicating at the Intersection of Business and Technology
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A friend recently posted a short opinion on Facebook:

“ONLY THREE KINDS OF PROFESSIONAL WRITERS would lean on AI to puke out their prose: the lazy, the cynical and the hopelessly overwhelmed. Tell me I’m wrong.”

This post was, in fact, a promo for a longer blog post. His blog, by the way, is excellent. My friend is an excellent writer. He wrote an excellent…

Friday Wrap #210I extract items for the Wrap from my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow. To make sure you never miss an issue, subscribe to my weekly email briefing.

Note: The Friday Wrap will take a break next Friday, March 24, while I’m traveling on business and won’t have time to put it together.

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China blocks Pinterest—Add Pinterest to the list of website now kept from the…

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I was talking recently with a colleague about crafting content for mobile. “You don’t actually write for mobile,” he said. “You write for the web. People just read it when they find it on their smartphone.”

That’s a pretty common assumption. Just yesterday an item from Business to Community crossed my feed that noted, “Too many business owners think…

Friday Wrap #183I extract items for the Friday Wrap from my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow.. To make sure you never miss an issue, subscribe to my weekly email briefing.

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Pity Colin Kaepernick’s sponsors—As a starting quarterback, Colin Kaepernick amassed the usual group of brands hungry for his endorsement. Now that he’s at the center of a controversy, they face a dilemma. Keep him as a…

Cross-posted from the FIR Podcast Network

Today’s panel features Paul Gillin, who is opening a content marketing arm of his company Profitecture (and who also is host of FIR B2B here on the FIR Podcast Network); Carol Kinsey Goman, a keynote speaker, author, and adviser on collaboration, non-verbal communication, and other communication-related issues; and David Murray, executive director of the Professional Speechwriters…

FIR Podcast #33: Not all corporate videos suck…just most

This is cross-posted from the FIR Podcast Network.

Special thanks to FIR tech correspondent Dan York for stepping in last week to handle hosting chores while Shel was present for the birth of a granddaughter! Shel is back this week with panelists Philippe Borremans, currently director of strategy for PR Media, an H+K Strategies Affiliate, based in Casablanca, Morocco; David Spark,…

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