Holtz Communications + Technology

Years ago, Myron “Mike” Emmanuel started a forum in which the top internal communicators from some of the biggest companies in the U.S. could get together a few times a year to share issues unique to large organizations. When Mike retired, the group faded until it was reinvigorated last year by ROI Communications. I was fortunate to be part of the group,…

One of the most popular platforms for creating and managing a blog is WordPress. From its origins in 2003, WordPress has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

A new book, WordPress For Dummies, has just been published, with explanations…

Albert Maruggi, of Minnesota-based Provident Partners, gave me a heads-up that he’d posted this Utterz. What a terrific tale (at least, it is for me).

I would add only that Ted Demopoulos was an equal partner in the writing of “Blogging for Business.”

Thanks, Albert!

The issue of anonymous reader comments continues to perplex Ragan Communications editors, per Steve Crescenzo’s article. But of even greater concern to me is the comment to Steve’s article left by internal communications icon Roger D’Aprix:

How sad that grown men and women are unable to own their words or restrain their emotions. It’s especially sad that they are so-called ‘communicators.’ And people want to bring this sort of…

Business can take a lesson from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The presidential candidate has launched a new website called The Fact Hub, designed to provide an instant response to misrepresentations and misstatements of fact. According to an article in The New York Times, even Republican strategists are applauding the move:

Steve Schmidt, a former political strategist for President Bush who helped oversee…

I used to wait impatiently for Don Middleberg and Steven Ross to release their annual study on how reporters and editors use the Internet. Don sold is agency several years ago and the survey vanished. Fortunately, the Arketi Group is out with some data in its 2007 Web Watch Survey, according to MediaPost.

Of key interest is the increasing acceptance of…