Posted on October 21, 2004 4:51 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Several communications-focused blogs have noted the release of a new Data Memo from the folks over at the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Twenty-six percent of adult Internet users in the U.S. have used rated or reviewed a product, service or person using an online rating system, according to the report. That’s more than 33 million people.
“At its best, the use of…
Posted on October 21, 2004 5:25 am by Shel Holtz | General
Life on the road continues. I’m headed to Phoenix this morning (speaking at the local IABC chapter as well as a gathering of communicators from a financial services company), and then on to Philadelphia for a meeting of communicators and IT folks involved with the Web and the implementation of an enterprise portal for a global manufacturing company. I’ll continue to post, but…
Posted on October 19, 2004 10:16 am by Shel Holtz | General
It took 12 days, but David Kistle has added a second post to his IABC Chair’s blog. It was worth the wait. David recaps his visits to IABC district board meetings and his experience presenting at the IABC/Delahaye Medialink Research and Measurement Conference. The post reveals that David is an active chair, out amongst the membership where his visibility and participation…
Posted on October 18, 2004 3:35 pm by Shel Holtz | General
The 15-square-mile city of Chaska, Minnesota—near Minneapolis—is going WiFi. Information Systems Manager Bradley Mayer says, “We firmly believe that the Internet is going to be just as much a part of everybody’s future as the telephone or electricity is and we want to make sure that everybody has equal access to it.” CNN’s Web site has the story.
Posted on October 17, 2004 2:26 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Some people are reading blogs, but few believe everything they read. That’s the conclusion of a nationwide survey of newspaper readers conducted by the Associated Press Managing Editors’ National Credibility Roundtables Project. While the study has been covered widely, both in the media and on other blogs, it took a while for anybody to break the results down by geography. It seems that…
Posted on October 16, 2004 12:26 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Steve Rubel offersa heartfelt post on Micropersuasion today. He and his bride Lisa received a gift basket from a pair of his readers. He was, appropriately, moved.
The act of kindness by Steve’s readers reminded me of an experience I had before blogs. In fact, it was before the Web. Back around 1990 or 91, I was a regular participant in the…
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