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Shel Holtz
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Slashdot, the collaborative reporting site for the technical elite, reported yesterday that a Web site called VisitorVille Intelligence released information on how employees at some big companies used the World Wide Web based on the companies’ Web monitoring efforts. This combination of employees’ online habits, company monitoring and the Net is right up my alley, so I clicked on over to…

Corporations are among those contributing money and other aid to the relief efforts in Southern Asia. According to a report in UK’s The Guardian, many of those organizations have learned the lessons of 9/11 and are low-keying their contributions. For example, bottled water company Danone is donating money, but is also sending bottled water to tsunami victims in Aceh. The company,…

Blogs are all about distributed knowledge and information. The military is all about centralized control. The amount of blogging by soldiers in Iraq and other locations has probably befuddled military powers who not the long ago were still able to censor letters troops mailed home. Today, the Philadelphia Enquirer reports that the military ordered a doctor serving in Iraq to

I’m off to DC today, back in the office on Friday. I’ll post from Washington as time allows.

It may be hard to get the large PR agencies to pay attention to blogs, their impact and their potential. When you’re number 11, though, it’s easier to be a bit more nimble. MWW Group, which bills itself as the 11th largest public relations agency in the US, has launched Blog 360, “a new specialty practice with focused expertise in blog marketing.” The…

RSS definitely isn’t just for blogs anymore; yet another company has found yet another way to leverage feeds. Pheedz is a travel site launched to advise subscribers about deals in Asia, Europe, Las Vegas, New York, Hawaii, and the mainland U.S. Additional feeds target cruises and skiing.

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