Posted on February 22, 2006 12:09 pm by Shel Holtz | General
I’m doing a session in about an hour at a company that had signs created for all the conference sessions. My session today is titled, “Communicating in a World of Overcommunication.” The signmakers apparently saw it differently. At least, I hope this was just a mistake at the sign shop! Sends a completely different message, doesn’t it?
Posted on February 15, 2006 6:00 pm by Shel Holtz | External | General
Reading an item from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I was reminded of one of the comments submitted to Jeremy Zawodny’s blog after he blasted a Silicon Valley PR agency for allegedly spamming him. The comment (by “Aimee”) read:
There are a few things to address here. Yes, it’s really bad form to send an unsolicited email to any journalist or blogger….certainly a letter of introduction or phone…
Posted on February 3, 2006 9:29 am by Shel Holtz | General
The Los Angeles Times has come up with an intriguing new use for a tag cloud. The Times’ online version features two clouds, one for US President George W. Bush’s recent 2006 State of the Union address, the other for his 2002 speech.
A tag cloud generally refers to a visual weighted list of a website’s tags. According to the Wikipedia listing…
Often,…
Posted on January 20, 2006 3:24 pm by Shel Holtz | General
I wrote recently about Jim Horton’s proposal for calling out PR practitioners who use spam as a means of content distribution. “Whenever a PR firm spams any PR blogger, we out the firm in our blogs and brand them with a Scarlet S for spammer,” Jim suggested. Fast on the heels of that suggestion comes The Bad Pitch Blog. Outing PR practitioners is…
Posted on January 19, 2006 5:52 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Why no posts before now, nearly 4 p.m.? Because my technology betrayed me. At times like this, I long for the simpler days when the worst thing about technology was changing a typewriter ribbon. (I’m getting all nostalgic.)
Neville, who’s in Copenhagen, called me at around 9:30 a.m. my time, 5:30 p.m. his, to record our podcast, “For Immediate Release, The Hobson and Holtz…
Posted on January 11, 2006 10:17 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | External | General
There are scads of approaches we can take to rehabilitate the image of the public relations profession. One of them is self-policing. This can be handled by the associations that represent the profession (should they ever decide to put teeth in their ethics policies) or by individual practitioners. I like the idea of speaking up—I’ve done some of it myself on this blog…
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