Posted on January 30, 2005 3:40 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Neville had a flight at fourish the day after the New Communications Forum ended. We decided it would be nice to stop at a microbrewery in Burlingame for lunch and a few beers with Christopher Carfi. Christopher writes the Social Customer Manifesto blog, which Neville reads (and so do I, now). Neville and Chrstopher had exchanged a few e-mails, which…
Posted on January 27, 2005 6:01 pm by Shel Holtz | General | Legal
Andy Lark just suggested that communicators in the US need to join NIRI (the National Investor Relations Institute) and take SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) training, because communicators representing public companies are subject to laws bloggers are not. Question: Do communicators need to join an investor relations association or do communications associations like IABC need to provide communications-specific SOX training?
Posted on January 27, 2005 12:34 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Andy Lark, part of a panel taking place now at the New Communications Forum, suggests there is a massive opportunity for the PR profession: developing the standards and means for evaluating the conversations taking place online. The traditional focus group approach to assessing opinions is inadequate, Lark says, and a metrics-based approach to analyzing the discussions in the online community…
Posted on January 24, 2005 7:13 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Public perception of the public relations profession is so bad that some individuals feel compelled to keep an eye on us and report on what they find. That’s the gist of an article published today in UK’s The Guardian, featuring an interview with David Miller, professor of sociology at the University of Strathclyde. Miller got start-up funding for a Web site called
Posted on January 20, 2005 5:20 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Not mentioned much in all the sturm und drang over the Jay Rosen brouhaha is the clear perception most non-PR people evidently have of us. Here’s a smattering of remarks from the comment section of Rosen’s initial post:
“The term “PR blogger” raises credibility questions—- how do we trust people who make a living doing “spin” to tell us the truth about anything? This idea that “PR bloggers missed…
Posted on January 20, 2005 10:02 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | General
One of the drawbacks of living on the West Coast is that, by the time I wake up, events are already unfolding on the East Coast and in Europe. It’s tough to break a story, or even be right on top of it, when it started making waves in the blogosphere while I’m still slumbering away at 3:30 or 4 a.m.
A case in…
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