Holtz Communications + Technology

Mike Manuel blogged recently about the sudden introduction of blogging practices appearing across the PR landscape. He makes the excellent point that…

...field-tested bloggers are behind these business moves and driving the adoption of these practices.  And I think this point underscores an obvious, albeit essential fact that to really know and talk the game, you have to simply play the game. …

Milton Moskowitz, the economist who assembles Fortune’s annual list of the 100 best companies to work for, wonders how much Wall Street has to do with making workplaces employee unfriendly. Speaking yesterday at the Communications Leadership Summit hosted by Ragan Communications in Chicago, Moskowitz pointed to Costco, which pays its employees considerably more than Wal*Mart. “I imagine some pipsqueak Wall Street analyst…

I ran into a friend at a fundraiser the other night. A former chief operating officer with a well-known Silicon Valley company, he’s now semi-retired. We talked about his plans and he said he was considering writing a book or starting a blog. The title for either: “It’s the People, Stupid.” My friend, Mike, is forever confounded by the way executives view employees. It…

When podcasting first emerged, my thoughts turned immediately to the applications available to businesses. I was thinking about all those opt-in e-mail newsletters companies provide on their investor relations pages so the financial community can stay up to date. Why not a weekly podcast for investors covering company news and activities? How about a regular podcast on various company brands…

Mike Manuel reports that Ask Jeeves went ahead and posted its press release yesterday announcing its acquisition of Bloglines; an FAQ was posted, as well.

Just as I thought, the press release covers the concerns expressed by people who learned of the acquisition through the rumor instead of the official announcement:

We want to assure you that the Bloglines service will…

An interesting piece in Andy Lark’s blog suggests that while transparency is an issue for communicators, what it means is going to vary from company to company based on a summit between communicators and company lawyers.

The outcome might be a set of behaviors, practices and polices that really articulate what transparency means in the context of the business - a kind of…