Posted on September 7, 2011 12:24 pm by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
Communications competencies continue to evolve. Yet how many organizations inventory the competencies of their communicators and then prepare a plan to ensure members of their team acquire the skills they need? Veteran communicator Mark Dollins has released the results of a survey that sought to get a handle on how companies dealt with competencies and the results may surprise you—particularly regarding…
Posted on September 6, 2011 7:52 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
Ever since Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson started the For Immediate Release podcast series in 2005 with The Hobson and Holtz Report in January of that year, finding out what our listener community thinks and wants has been important to us.
During the past six years, we’ve done two formal listener surveys, once in 2006 and one in 2009. Both provided us with…
Posted on September 5, 2011 11:51 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
Content summary: Vote for FIR on Podcast Alley; it’s Labor Day in the US; Lionel Menchaca interview is up, interviews coming with Jeremiah Owyang, HSBC, Mark Dollins, Mark Hillary; game-based marketing book review is coming; Neville’s impressions of last week’s Ealing Tweetup; the FIR Listener Survey 2011 is ready; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: HSBC launches social media newsroom in the…
Posted on August 31, 2011 1:47 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | For Immediate Release | Social Media
We first spoke with Dell’s chief blogger, Lionel Menchaca, in an FIR interview on January 12, 2007, not too long after Dell’s first blog was launched. We spoke with Lionel again to find out how the blog and the company’s overall social media approach has evolved in the intervening 4-1/2 years. The interview was conducted using a Google+ Hangout. An audio version is…
Posted on August 31, 2011 9:37 am by Shel Holtz | Crisis Communication | For Immediate Release | Social Media
Note: This is a cross-post from the For Immediate Release blog.
Your FIR co-hosts are planning an interview for next week with Altimeter Group‘s Jeremiah Owyang about the release of a new study, “Social Business Readiness.” The study was released today—the presentation is embedded at the end of this post. In preparation for the interview, we’re sharing some of the study’s highlights in this post. Let us know in…
Posted on August 29, 2011 11:01 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
Content summary: Shel’s in San Diego; listen to this week’s Friday Rock Show with Neville as guest presenter; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: community management trends from Altimeter’s Jeremiah Owyang, Dan York reports on the Irene social media hurricane and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, was Irene a hurricane of media hype?, the Mortons/Peter Shankman airport steak event…
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