Posted on June 2, 2006 10:24 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Technology | Web
The more services I see roll out that aggregate content from “the edge,” the more convinced I become that this represents a considerable shift in publishing models that will become more and more common. The idea, if it’s new to you, is simple. Rather than send your content to someone else to publish—such as a classified ad in a newspaper—you publish it on your own site and tag…
Posted on June 2, 2006 9:56 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
I have live-blogged a couple of events, including the first and second New Communications Forums this year and last. Live-blogging conferences has gotten to be a fairly routine thing these days, making it easy for those who can’t be there to get updates on who said what in pretty close to real time.
As live-blogging from conferences continues to spread in both…
Posted on May 31, 2006 6:10 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business | External
Week before last I was in Washington, D.C. to moderate the “Beyond Blogging 2006” symposium sponsored by Fleishman Hillard. I got in a few days early and had a couple meetings at Fleishman’s DC offices, where I met Tony Colandro. Among other things, Tony has been working on a major study Fleishman commissioned to get a handle on how people perceive the notion of…
Posted on May 13, 2006 9:14 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Both the mainstream press and the blogosphere are abuzz with variations on the same headline: “Mark Cuban fined for blogging.” The more I read it, the more irritated I get. Cuban, the blogging owner of the NBA basketball team, Dallas Mavericks, was not fined for blogging. The NBA fined Cuban for violating league rules against open criticism of game officiating. The fact that…
Posted on May 9, 2006 4:30 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
ClickZ Stats reports the results of a new study on corporate blogging that shows some progress in recognition of corporate blogging among the top US companies while most businesses remain skeptical, to say the least.
The study—released by the New York-based PR agency Makovsky & Company (which doesn’t even include news of the study on its own site) with research conducted by Harris…
Posted on May 5, 2006 9:35 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
Some time back, a number of bloggers noted the launch of the Chrysler Firehouse blog, which limited access to the working press. Most of us don’t qualify, so we could only guess at the nature of the items posted there. Today, thanks to Chicago Tribune staffer Jim Mateja, we get a glimpse.
Mateja writes that Chrysler PR honcho Jason Vines used the…
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