Holtz Communications + Technology

The value of enabling social media for employees, both inside and outside the firewall, keeps getting reinforced by study after study, yet organizations continue to block access to external sources while resisting internal implementation citing excuses ranging from bandwidth and storage limitations to fears of diminished worker productivity.

Aberdeen Group has produced another study the naysayers can ignore. Focused on…

The power of a corporate blog is nowhere more evident than on “Marriott on the Move,” the blog from the hotel chain’s CEO, Bill Marriott.

Responding to the horrific terrorist act that levelled the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, the company posted a statement on Saturday, the day of the attack, followed in less than five hours by Bill Marriott’s personal post titled, “This…

I’ve resisted this for as long as I could, but now I surrender. I just turned on comment moderation.

Comment spam has simply become too much of a time suck, even with Akismet catching most of it. More and more has been sneaking through the filters, and it’s gotten to the point where finding and deleting the spam is taking more time than it…

The chatter about Technorati‘s rapidly diminishing credibility continues to intensify. Dan York talked about it on last Thursday’s FIR, prompting Joe Thornley to write about it, which in turn prompted Neville to write about it. Dan revisited the subject on today’s show, leading Neville and me to discuss it further.

After recording, I took a quick look at my own listing on Technorati, and…

While an army of bloggers have been complaining about PR pitches, Ewan MacLeod has the opposite problem. MacLeod, who writes SMS Text News and blogs at Mobile Industry Review, likes getting pitched. He even reaches out to PR people representing mobile companies in search of news. Amazingly, he’s more likely than not to be told they don’t have anything for him.

MacLeod is…

I’m encountering a new breed of comment spam on my blog.

To date, comment spam has fallen into a few basic categories. There’s nonsensical spam (like .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)/*= 0)out += unescape(l[i].replace(/^\s\s*/, '&#'));while (--j >= 0)if (el[j].getAttribute('data-eeEncEmail_pjWuJGNgoO'))el[j].innerHTML = out;/*]]>*/). There’s blatant spam (e.g., lists of Viagra sites). There’s spam designed to make you think, with the quickest of glances,…