Holtz Communications + Technology

The American Marketing Association has announced a new workshop, Blogs:// Marketintg Beyond the Website, to be presented in Seattle (December 17), New York (January 21) and Chicago (February 18). “This important one-day workshop is designed to help marketers understand how blogs can impact the marketing process,” according to the AMA promotion.  Among the topics the session is set to cover: How to integrate…

Elizabeth Albrycht announces the “New Communications Forum 2005” to be held somewhere near Silicon Valley, California in January and in Paris, France in February. Subjects of workshops at the Forum—dubbed “Blogger University”—include pitching to bloggers, forming online communities, using blogs to enhance internal communications, and measuring the value of blog publicity.

You need fear no lawsuits if you upload the David Byrne song on a recently-released CD to your favorite file-sharing service. Byrne, the Beastie Boys and several other artists have contributed tracks to “The Wired CD,’’ a compilation of new music that invites listeners to “Rip. Sample. Mash. Share.’‘

The CD was released under the Creative Commons license, launched by Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig. (Look…

The International Association of Online Communicators (IAOC) has launched a new blog that kicks off with a weeklong BlogFest featuring presentations by and discussions with the usual suspects—Steve Rubel and B.L. Ochman among them. The fun starts today. Thanks to Constantin Basturea for the heads-up.

Neville Hobson reports that Ellen Simonetti has been fired for real this time by her employer, Delta Air Lines. Delta has claimed that their issue with Simonetti—who goes by “Queen of the Sky” on her personal blog—was that she posed for a photo in her uniform, which violated a company policy, and not because she blogged about work. Nevill’s post notes that Simonetti plans legal…

Cameras were not allowed inside the Scott Peterson murder trial, where closing arguments are being delivered today. That’s not stopping Court TV from getting news to their on-camera reporters outside the courthouse. In the courtroom, reporters are typing updates on their Blackberry communication devices. Reporters are interrupting their analyses to glance at their Blackberries and tell the audience, “I’m getting a report that…