Posted on March 13, 2014 11:31 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Internal
I am officially sick of the silo metaphor and wish it would die.
Everywhere you turn, people talk about tearing down silos, busting silos and smashing silos. Ask a farmer about that, and he’ll doubtless tell you that if you smash his silos, all the grain will fall out.
The idea of silos in organizations is meant to conjure an image of employees…
Posted on March 7, 2014 9:25 am by Shel Holtz | Visual Communication | Brands | Business | Intranets | Marketing | Research
You didn’t offer a whisper of protest to the new format for the summary of stories and posts from around the Web, so I’m sticking with it. By the way, I’m writing from a hotel room in Los Angeles—my hometown—where I’m speaking at the Global Intranet Forum. You’re welcome to follow my link blog, where I collect the items from which I draw material for the Wrap, as well as…
Posted on March 3, 2014 6:33 pm by Shel Holtz | Sharing and Collaborating | Economics | Business
When Jeremiah Owyang first alerted me to an Altimeter Group report on the sharing economy, I was skeptical. Not about the reality of the growing trend toward sharing and collaboration, mind you. The growth of companies like AirBnB, TaskRabbit and Lyft is undeniable. But in a world economy driven by factors like interest rates, trade balances, government debt, gross national…
Posted on February 21, 2014 7:04 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Blogging | Brands | Business | Content Curation | Customer Service | Facebook | Marketing | Measurement | Research | Twitter
The Friday Wrap is a collection of items from the last week that could be useful for communications professionals but that may have slipped by unnoticed (particularly in the wake of big news stories like Facebook’s blockbuster acquisition of mobile messaging app WhatsApp). I collect all the items I might possibly use in the Wrap on my link blog at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com,…
Posted on February 17, 2014 5:06 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Internal | Social Media
If the question sounds absurd, consider that once, companies exercised tremendous discretion in providing employees with access to phones. In the early days of phones in business, concerns ranged from employees wasting time on calls to the inadvertent sharing of confidential information made too easy by casual conversation, from rising telephone costs incurred by employees who didn’t really need one to…
Posted on February 14, 2014 8:53 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Instagram | Advertising | Brands | Business | Facebook | Google+ | Marketing | Media | Publishing | Social Media
Happy Valentine’s Day!
(c) Can Stock PhotoThe Friday Wrap is a weekly compendium of articles of interest to communicators that may h ave flown by under your radar. I collect stories from which I cull the items that will appear in the Wrap on my link blog, LinksFromShel.tumblr.com; I also draw on this curated collection for items I report on my…
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