Posted on January 25, 2010 7:23 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Social Media
Despite a flood of recommendations to create one, there are still a lot of companies without policies that let employees know their obligations when engaging in social media. One survey from last August found that one in three lacked policies. A Deloitte survey from just a few months earlier pegged the number at half. And just this month, according to
Posted on January 8, 2010 12:51 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Social Media | Social Networking
At first, I shrugged off the semi-literate comment left to one of my posts over on Stop Blocking, the site I started to advocate for reasonable employee access to the Net, and particularly to social media sites.
The post to which “reason,” as he called himself left a comment reported on a study that showed 54% of companies were blocking access. Here’s his…
Posted on November 16, 2009 10:35 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
The question of CEO blogging keeps coming up. Opinions mostly fall in two camps:
- All CEOs should blog. As the leaders and chief communicators of their organizations, it is incumbent on CEOs to represent their companies in the social space where so much influence is wielded.
- No CEOs should blog. Because of regulations that govern the kinds of statements CEOs can make,…
Posted on October 26, 2009 10:35 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Facebook | Social Networking
It’s becoming a litany.
In a meeting or during a presentation, somebody—usually an HR rep or recruiter—will tell me how many candidates she has rejected based on something she saw on the candidate’s Facebook or MySpace profile. In every case, it has been something along the lines of a photo taken during a party at college. My response: “If your employer knew what you did during college,…
Posted on October 9, 2009 9:50 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Facebook | Marketing | Social Media | Social Networking | Twitter
Cross-posted from Stop Blocking.
Social media as a marketing mechanism is clearly hot. I can’t scan my feeds without finding yet another report of yet another study detailing companies’ increased commitment to and investment in social media. Here are just a few:
- eMarketer reports on an The Aberdeen Group study that found 63% of companies planned to increase their social media marketing budgets in 2009.…
Posted on September 25, 2009 9:53 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Social Media
I thought I had seen all the arguments about which function, within an organization, should “own” social media. I’ve argued that PR or communications is the logical home, since PR/comms is the only function in the organization accountable for the company’s reputation and the only function practiced in building relationships with stakeholders.
Reading Chris Kieff’s post yesterday, though, had me rethinking my position. Kieff—a freelance…
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