Holtz Communications + Technology

I hardly ever use my Gmail account (which I got thanks to the accounts Neville Hobson had available to give away). It’s a good, solid service, nothing wrong with it. But I have my own e-mail server with an excellent spam filter. I’ve set up a few of the services I’ve subscribed to (like GarageBand.com) using Gmail, but if I get three or four…

When IABC called me a month or so ago looking for someone to host a teleseminar on blogging, I referred them to Micropersuasion blogger Steve Rubel. Steve and IABC talked, and now Steve is set to host the teleseminar for IABC on January 20. The teleseminar is titled “How Blogs, RSS and Citizen Journalism Have Changed the PR Landscape.” It’ll be held twice, once…

I read two items in two PR blogs today, both of which talked about PR crises.

First was BL Ochman, whose What’s Next tells the tale of ZDNet asking readers if the latest Internet Explorer security patches issued by Microsoft is enough to get them to switch to Firefox. Second was Steve Crescenzo’s Corporate Hallucinations, recounting how Ketchum Public Relations, which has an account…

We all know the part blogs have played in the aftermath of the South Asia disaster. Less attention is being accorded SMS, the cell phone text messaging system. The BBC has an article that sheds light on how text messaging aided recovery efforts. Some of the earliest blog reports about the tsunami were repurposed SMS messages sent by people on…

As Neville and I recorded our first podcast on Monday, I recalled that we met online probably a dozen years ago when we were both participants in Compuserve’s late Public Relations & Marketing Forum. In the pre-Web days, the PRSIG was virtually the only online destination for PR professionals, and thousands of us congregated there. As we thought about it, we…

I’m off to DC today, back in the office on Friday. I’ll post from Washington as time allows.