Posted on March 28, 2007 12:16 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
I get home tonight from the latest round of travel with no plans for going anywhere in the next week or so, which I hope will leave me with some time to write a blog post or two. Oddly, I find myself pining to get to the keyboard to blog, but time simply hasn’t allowed. I’m in San Diego right now, getting…
Posted on March 22, 2007 10:13 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
I always worry when I disagree publicly with Steve Crescenzo, who is one of my very best friends. I worry he won’t like me any more. Worse, I worry that his wife Cindy won’t like me any more. I would probably get over Steve not liking me any more, although it would take some time. But I’d never get over it if Cindy turned…
Posted on March 8, 2007 5:44 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
David Parmet set up a backchannel for the New Communications Forum, so several of us were IRC-chatting during a number of presentations, including David Weinberger’s. During his keynote, Weinberger talked about the human voice of blogs but also noted that you don’t have to be a good writer to blog. True, but I noted that I appreciate good writing and prefer…
Posted on March 6, 2007 10:34 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Crisis Communication | External | Media
Electronics retailer Best Buy is in hot water. Near as I can tell, they shouldn’t be. What’s gone wrong at the Minneapolis-based company seems to be a lack of coordination rather than the underhanded scheme that characterizes reporting about the crisis.
And it is a crisis, make no mistake. The company stands accused of maintaining a “secret” intranet that duplicates its consumer website but with…
Posted on March 5, 2007 3:54 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
I have been struck by the number of posts recently that outline the flaws and risks of corporate blogging. On top of Dee Rambeau and Dave Taylor asserting that corporations and CEO’s shouldn’t blog, period, a number of bloggers have cranked out lists of issues that stand between a corporation and successful blogging.
First came Kami Huyse with risks, each associated with the degree…
Posted on February 19, 2007 5:45 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media | Social Media
Catching up on my feeds after a two-week stint on the road that left me with little time, I stumbled across a post from Stowe Boyd reporting on a Zogby study. The survey reveals that most Americans believe bloggers and citizen journalists will play an increasingly significant role in the way news is reported. I agree with the results of…
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