Posted on July 28, 2006 8:29 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | New Media
I stumbled across a post from back in April that included a statement I had to re-read several times to make sure I had it right: “Most PR bloggers are rarely critical of the industry and are genuinely giddy about the power of blogging.” The post, from The Bivings Group’s Rita Desai, makes two sweeping statements in one sentence. I have problems with…
Posted on July 14, 2006 6:14 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
A number of people—including some who have posted comments to this blog, as well as Steve Rubel’s—have expressed indignation and suspicion over the fact that their comments posted to Dell’s brand-spanking-new blog have not appeared. One commenter to this blog suspected Dell of engaging only A-list bloggers.
Today, Dell’s Digital Media Manager, Lionel Menchaca, posted an item to one2one explaining the comment process. Essentially, most…
Posted on July 12, 2006 9:46 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
My co-author of “Blogging for Business,” Ted Demopoulos, has announced a contest over at our book blog. He’s looking for anyone interested to submit a post to him that we can run on the blog. The post can be any length, but should have something to do with the theme of the book and the site, which is, not surprisingly, business blogging. Ted…
Posted on July 11, 2006 9:19 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Back in the early 1990s, when I worked in communications at Allergan, Inc., the company introduced a new silicon intraocular lens, the artificial lens used to replace a bad organc crystalline lens during cataract surgery. A silicon lens offered significant advantages over the phacoemulsification lens that had been the industry standard since the Korean War. An ophthalmologist could insert the…
Posted on July 10, 2006 2:00 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Dell Computers, which is probably still smarting from its blogosphere-wide trashing at the hands of Jeff Jarvis, has plunged into the blogosphere itself with the launch of one2one, subtitled “Direct Conversations with Dell.”
According to the blog’s “
Posted on June 30, 2006 4:13 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Podcasting
I rolled my eyes yesterday when I read CBS Marketwatch’s Frank Barnako dismiss U.S. Sen. John Edwards as the keynote speaker at Gnomedex 6.
I was in Seattle for 5.0 last year, and it was an inspiring event, full of podcasters, bloggers, columnists and techies shaking hands and sharing the latest technology buzz. This year, I’m not so sure it will be. Politics has raised…
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