Posted on February 2, 2006 9:11 am by Shel Holtz | External
UPI is reporting that General Motors has canned Tony Kowaleski as its top PR executive and convinced former GM communicator Steve Harris to come back and improve GM’s battered image. According to the article, Kowaleski was skilled at promoting product but that Harris was more adept at crisis communication. Kowaleski was taked with communicating GM’s $8.6 billion loss in 2005. Management wants…
Posted on February 2, 2006 8:50 am by Shel Holtz | Politics
The Los Angeles Fire Department’s blog, produced by the LAFD PR team (as reported by Steve Rubel), has prompted an LA blogger to call on the Los Angeles Police Department and the Sheriff’s Department to follow suit.
In an open letter on his blog, Sean Bonner of Blogging.LA writes:
Search for “LAFD” on this site and see the countless other posts praising them for their openess and…
Posted on February 1, 2006 9:26 am by Shel Holtz | Business
I remember driving home one night listening the radio (in the days before podcasting, maybe 20 months ago). The host was interviewing recently retired Fortune 500 CEO. He asked about the biggest obstacle the CEO faced in his tenure. The CEO didn’t hesitate. His answer: “Investment analysts.”
Because of the huge influence investment analysts wield when they set earnings expectations for each quarter,…
Posted on February 1, 2006 8:43 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Media and bloggers everywhere reported Microsoft’s release yesterday of the Internet Explorer 7 beta with its tabbed browsing, built-in support for RSS (including enclosures), and improved security. I’d love to see how it all looks, but I can’t get it installed. My PC meets (and generally exceeds) all the requirements, but midway through the installation I get an error, something to do with a…
Posted on January 31, 2006 9:58 pm by Shel Holtz | Internal
Open source marketing is a great notion, but it’s slow to catch on. Eventually it will become common, but it’s a dramatic a shift from an approach to advertising and marketing that has become entrenched over 50 years. Few high-powered Madison Avenue execs would be excited about the idea of turning their creative over to the person on the street. So…
Posted on January 30, 2006 5:31 pm by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
Content summary: Windows Live; Google in China; Weber Shandwick hires Jeremy Pepper; BluePulse apologizes and wins; US bloggers get an Amsterdam junket; Cirque du Soleil invites bloggers to Canadian debut; listeners’ comments discussion (paying attention to Technorati); the music.
Show notes for January 30, 2006
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 73-minute podcast recorded live from Amsterdam, The…
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