Posted on June 2, 2010 3:44 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | For Immediate Release | Social Media | Social networks
Content summary: Chuck Hester, author of “Linking In to Pay It Forward,” speaks on how LinkedIn is transforming business communications, connections and brands. He gave his talk at the New Communications Forum in San Mateo on Friday, April 23, 2010.
From the NewComm Forum session description:
LinkedIn has more than 61 million users from 200+ countries around the world. A new member joins…
Posted on June 1, 2010 6:41 pm by Shel Holtz | Brands | Business | Technology
I have made the decision to go completely Apple-free.
This is a personal decision. I have no intention of trying to start a movement or get others to join me. Personally, though, I have enough problems with Apple and the way it conducts business that I’ve concluded that I simply don’t have to support these practices with a nickel of my money, nor do I…
Posted on May 6, 2010 11:22 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Legal
Legal writing is, almost by definition, cold and impersonal. In the silo’d structure of most organizations, the lawyers perform the tasks expected of them, protecting the organization from risk the way they were taught in law school. The same icy legalese is crafted whether the issue is suing for trademark infringement or finalizing a contract.
In today’s environment of many-to-many engagement, corporate legal…
Posted on April 15, 2010 6:32 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Social networks | Trust
I did not publish this post as soon as I wrote it. I went to dinner with some old friends. Had a couple glasses of wine. Waited to see if my reaction to the news had mellowed. It has not. I’m as pissed off as I was when I first got word. Hence, the following post, just as I wrote it…
Posted on March 26, 2010 11:46 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Social Media | Social Networking
Dear Sir or Madam:
I understand your fears and worries. I really do. It’s risky out there where employees may say something they shouldn’t that brings the wrath of a regulatory agency upon your head, where links from Facebook pages lead to sites that exist solely to infect your network, where employees seem to be doing anything but the work you’re paying them to do.
And…
Posted on March 16, 2010 2:02 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Internal | Social Media | Social networks
As more than half of the companies in the U.S. continue to block employee access to social media sites, the organizations that maintain open channels are positioned to innovate and compete at levels that could crush their competition.
Being poised to extract value from a workforce that is networked 24/7 isn’t the same as taking the steps required to get there.
I…
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