Holtz Communications + Technology

(c) Can Stock PhotoIt’s time to wrap up the week with a look at some news and other posts that caught my eye. The complete listing of items I’ve bookmarked from which to select Friday Wrap items is, as always, at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com.

There was no hope that I’d be able to produce this Friday’s Wrap without some reference…

(c) Can Stock PhotoThe weekend approacheth, but not before we look back on the last five days and the posts and articles that made an impression. If you’re interested in the pool from which these items were drawn, you can always dip your toes in at Links From Shel.

If somebody was going to come up with a…

Traditionally, journalists work to become experts on the subjects they cover. Political reporters don’t start as legislators or government employees, for example. They start as journalists and learn to cover the political beat. General assignment reporters become instant experts on every topic they cover, learning enough to report accurately so that lay readers will understand. Learning how to learn in this way…

(c) Can Stock PhotoNobody goes into the planning for a communications effort believing the customer is a tabula rasa, a blank slate. Knowing customers have interests, biases and other characteristics is the very reason we conduct audience research. Having seen new research from The Futures Company, however, I’m wondering if that research digs deep enough.

When we study the people who comprise our…

(c) Can Stock PhotoSomething of an uproar has picked up steam as Facebook brand page administrators noticed a decline in the reach of their posts. According to one source, pages have lost 6.5 percent of their reach since Facebook implemented a change to its EdgeRank algorithm, which determines the updates that will appear in the newsfeeds of people who have…

(c) Can Stock PhotoAnnouncements have been flying fast and furious this week, so it’s almost all hard news in the Friday Wrap, my weekly review of interesting reports from the previous seven days. Every time I find something I might want to include in the wrap (or on my blog or podcast), I save it to my link blog on Tumblr,…