Holtz Communications + Technology

Content summary: Steve Rubel interview coming this week; FIR 500 on November 12; Shel’s on the way to Phoenix; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on the APEC conference; the Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; News That Fits: Twittertypes, 70% of mainstream media plan to charge for online content says AOP survey, social media news release and SEO, live sports event to be…

Content summary: Neville’s new role at WeissComm Group; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; FIR interview with Smithsonian’s Michael Edson posted; FIR interview next week with Steve Rubel; followup: Brands in Public and Google Sidewiki; Dan York reports on Google Wave and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: new media companies abuse pitch process, summit takes hard look at…

Michael Edson put the development of a strategy for social media at the Smithsonian Institution on a public-facing wiki where anyone could monitor progress. In this interview, Shel Holtz chats with Michael about the reactions and results produced by the effort, along with the Smithsonian’s approaches to new media.

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Content summary: An explanation of Yom Kippur; no report from Michael Netzley this week; the Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; Shel starts a discussion: Brands in Public by Seth Godin, and Google Sidewiki; News That Fits: John Cass posts about a Cisco WebEx blogger who deletes a competitor’s comment, Steve Rubel’s week in the clouds without a notebook; listener comments discussion; news about…

Content summary: Twitter phishing attack; Kris Gallagher’s harmonica meme; Bright One volunteer-led agency announces four ambassadors; Dan York reports from Orlando, Florida; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: opportunities outweigh the risks with Facebook pages for investor relations, how to measure the value of a social media fan or follower, tweeting medics expose patients, should PR agencies stop…

Content summary: Shel’s on the road to New York; Neville reports on the Barcelona social media conference last week; Michael Netzley in Singapore interviews pragmatic idealist Bernard Leong; Neville’s experiment with Melcrum and ipadio; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: a follow-up on UK PR agencies not paying work experience staff (interns), millennial staffers can update your social media…