Holtz Communications + Technology

I think I’ll write an article about router configuration. I know a tiny bit about routers, so I could probably sound a little like I know what I’m talking about. I’m a good enough writer that I could make it sound authoritative. Why not? Over at JupiterMedia’s Datamation website, IT writer Paul Chin has written an article about corporate communications. It’s superficial, misses key…

I’ve worked with a lot of communicators over the years, and in that time one characteristic seems to bind all of them: enthusiasm. People who work in communications, it has always seemed to me, genereally have a certain amount of passion for their work. Now there’s research to support the notion that PR people like what they do. According to a study by…

Many moons ago, before I transitioned into the business communications world that would be my career for the rest of my life, I was a newspaper reporter. My degree is in journalism and, at the time, I couldn’t imagine myself doing anything other than writing hard news and in-depth analyses for a daily newspaper. The transition to corporate communications wasn’t easy. It took a…

It’s an amusing sight, a group of PR practitioners at dinner trying to figure out the check and the tip. Most communicators don’t do math. It’s a right-brain left-brain thing. Lack of math skills led most of us to writing as an avocation to begin with. I’m always glad when Angela Sinickas is at dinner with us. She’s a math whiz. But you’d expect her to be,…

If you’ve heard about the blow-up between Six Apart’s Mena Trott and a Les Blogs participant, you can actually view a video of the exchange. Video cameras are everywhere—even in cell phones (including mine), and vidcasting will make content like this commonplace. There’s no hiding any more.

Jeremy Pepper has a terrific review of Nokia’s blogger relations initiative around its new phone. BL Ochman didn’t like the…

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