Posted on July 11, 2014 7:14 am by Shel Holtz | Sharing and Collaborating | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Pinterest | Advertising | Blogging | Brands | Content Curation | Customer Service | Facebook | Intranets | Marketing | Mobile | PR | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Trust
Flickr photo courtesy of Matt ReinboldThe Friday Wrap (which is what you’re reading) is a curated rundown of news, reports and posts from the past week that, while they didn’t go viral or attract much attention, are still interesting and useful for communications professionals. I select Wrap items from my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow.
FTC may scrutinize Facebook experiment—The Facebook’s A/B…
Posted on June 25, 2014 12:14 pm by Shel Holtz | Content | External | Media | Mobile
While marketers trip over their own feet in the ongoing rush to be relevant during meme-producing cultural events—like the World Cup—they’re missing the bigger and far more important opportunity: contextual communication.
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel wrote about the importance of context in their latest book, “Age of Context” (a must-read). In the book, Robert and Shel identified five trends that are converging to put context at…
Posted on June 13, 2014 8:05 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Brands | Channels | Facebook | Marketing | Mobile | Research | Social Media | Twitter
Image courtesy of JoyosityThe Friday Wrap is a curated rundown of news, reports and posts from the past week that, while they didn’t go viral or attract much attention, are still interesting and useful for communications professionals. I select Wrap items from my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow.
Top PR agencies commit to Wikipedia’s community standards—A group of the world’s biggest PR agencies has…
Posted on June 6, 2014 9:49 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Advertising | Brands | Facebook | Marketing | Mobile | PR | Research | Search | Social Media | Twitter | Video
Dalek cupcake wrappersGreetings from Toronto, site of the 2014 IABC World Conference. The city has dished up some great weather, which I plan to enjoy as soon as I finish up this week’s Wrap, a review of news and posts from the last week that might have flown by under your radar but are still of interest and use to communicators.…
Posted on May 30, 2014 4:03 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Advertising | Brands | Crisis Communication | Instant Messaging | Marketing | Mobile | Research | Search | Social Media | Social networks
The Friday Wrap is a curated rundown of news, reports and posts from the past week that, while they didn’t go viral or attract much attention, are still interesting and useful for communications professionals. I select Wrap items from my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow.
Tale #1: Chevron—Hashtag hijacking is nothing new, though it’s still remarkable that there are still big brands…
Posted on May 29, 2014 2:24 pm by Shel Holtz | Content | Audio | Channels
For 17 years, public radio’s “This American Life” was distributed by Public Radio International, one of several rival organizations that make content available for the hundreds of local public radio stations across the U.S. Several competitors vied to become the new distributor of Ira Glass’s iconic program, but Glass and Chicago Public Media—the show’s producer—spurned all those advances and decided to self-distribute via Public Radio…
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