Holtz Communications + Technology

I read a few posts that dismissed my argument that press releases still serve an important function: Complying with regulatory requirements for disclosing any news that could affect an organization’s share price. One of these comments, I recall, noted that failure to comply would be a small price to pay in return for the benefits that accrue to companies that switch…

Interesting note from the Wall Street Journal’s Carl Bialik (by way of Frank Barnako’s Internet Daily about measuring the growth of blogs. The total number of blogs isn’t a relevant measure, Bialik suggests, since there is wide disagreement about the total number blogs (between 10 and 32 million). With new blogs being started and bloggers abandoning existing blogs, it’s a moving target at…

Trevor Cook, one of the authors of the Corporate Engagement blog, took Robert Scoble and Shel Israel to task over the content of Chapter 7 of “Naked Conversations,” their book about blogging, the first draft of which they posted to their “Red Couch” blog. Cook’s critique was blistering at times. (Neville and I discussed it on our most recent podcast.)

How did Scoble and Israel respond?…

I’m in a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas, listening to a streaming audio file offered by National Public Radio from its “Talk of the Nation” broadcast. The topic: employee blogging. Right now, I’m listening to former Google employee Mark Jen, who was fired for blogging (and is currently working at Plaxo on, among other things, development of an employee blogging policy. So far, I…

Thank God for Constantin Basturea’s list of CEO bloggers on his NewPR wiki.TheNewPR Wiki. (While we’re at it, thank God for everything Constantin does for the rest of us.) Sadly, the list did me no good when a colleague and sometime client asked me for examples of CEOs who are blogging to employees on their companies’ intranets.

“Well,” I said, “there’s Paul Otellini at Intel, and then, um,…

A letter to Business Week in response to the magazine’s cover story on blogging asks, “Is this really what we want our corporate leaders spending hours a day doing?”

Yes. Definitely.

In thinking this through, it’s important to put a corporate leader’s blogging efforts in context. Step back from the new technology and all the attention the software gets and consider what blogging is:

Communication.

Ask…