Holtz Communications + Technology

Content summary: ???Get well soon??? wishes to Chip Griffin and Jason Falls; the Shorty Awards; from Singapore, Michael Netzley discusses recent events in Australia, Papua, and China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: state of the Twittersphere report, do people want Twitter to have ???search by authority????, FedEx best practice mixing internal and external communications; listeners??? comments…

Shashi Bellamkonda joined Network Solutions—which once held the monopoly on dot-com domain registrations—as a customer service representative. His use of social media in all of his jobs led to his appointment as the coordinator of social media efforts for the company. In this interview, Shashi shares with Shel Holtz how he coordinates with other departments, how social media has been used to improve…

• Research on the Use of Social Software in the Workplace (PDF document)

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• The iPhone is Apple’s netbook

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Content summary: New FIR Interview, FIR Live, posted; more FIR content coming; thanks Heather Gorringe who says FIR an inspiration for Wiggly Wigglers; FIR also a fave for ReadWriteWeb; Michael Netzley looks at how Asia’s internet is different; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits - scientific journal also requires authors to publish in Wikipedia; mainstream media taps live…

Content Summary: According to Time To Rethink Your Corporate Blogging Ideas, a new report from Forrester Research principal analyst and Groundswell co-author Josh Bernoff, corporate blogs rank at the bottom of the trust scale with only 16% of online US consumers who read them saying that they trust them. Why people don???t trust corporate blogs, what to do about it,…

From PR ethics and advocacy, to issues management and the role of social media in changing times, the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) is at the heart of matters of interest and concern to members of the public relations profession, and others with often-strong and sometimes passionate opinions on what PR should deliver and how it should do it.

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