Holtz Communications + Technology

Sorry there were no posts yesterday. I spent the day on a jetBlue flight from Oakland to New York. I’m here to speak at the Conference Board’s Corporate Communicaiton and Technology Conference. I’m on a three-person panel discussing strategic planning for intranets, but I’m hanging around for the entire 1-1/2-day event. A couple sessions sound particularly interesting, including one on “Understanding the New Rules for Workforce…

Readers of South Africa’s Mail and Guardian Online can now create blogs using the newspaper’s new “Blogspot.” According to an ITWeb article posted to AllAfrica.com, the publication’s editor, Matthew Buckland, blogs “raised interesting questions about what constitutes journalism on the Web, because blogs effectively allow almost anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to publish their own stories or articles.”

This is the second South African online…

C|Net has created a video tutorial about RSS. The video, part of a page that introduces RSS to newcomers, “explains how RSS feeds give you the news you need, when and where you want it,” the site explains.

Thanks to CommonCraft for the link.

For the first time, I’ve included a proposal for a wiki in a report for a client. This is hardly a high-tech company—in fact, it’s about as brick-and-mortar as they come—but the inclusion of a wiki in my recommendations was a no-brainer. The company is expanding rapidly overseas and managing communication in a 24-hour cycle is getting more and more difficult. Several executives I…

Interesting piece in the Globe and Mail about how blogs are being used in the classroom.  “Classroom Web logs, many of which got their start in the last school year, are becoming increasingly popular with teachers…as a forum for expression for students as young as the second-grade level and in almost any subject. In the blogs, students write about how they attacked a…

There are several wiki applications you can download for free, including the original wiki program developed by Ward Cunningham and pmWiki, the one I’m using for the Employee Communications Manifesto. Now you can add FlexWiki to the list. What’s unusual about that is FlexWiki is a Microsoft program.

It’s not the first application Microsoft has made available as an open-source program, according to an article in…