Posted on September 19, 2005 11:28 am by Shel Holtz | General
The second annual PR blogging summit, Global PR Blog Week 2.0, starts today and runs until the end of this week.
Global PR Blog Week 2.0 is an online event that will engage public relations, marketing and business professionals from around the globe in a discussion about how new communication technologies such as weblogs, podcasting, RSS and wikis are changing public…
Posted on September 9, 2005 6:42 am by Shel Holtz | General
Michele and I are off to Chicago for a wedding, then New York and Boston to celebrate our own 30th anniversary. Back on the 20th. I’ll post as time and motivation allows.
Posted on September 8, 2005 10:02 am by Shel Holtz | General
The Washington Post is one of several media outlets that have caved in to pressure and stopped referring to those displaced by Hurricane Katrina as “refugees.” The decision comes on the heels of accusations that the word is racist. While touring the Houston Astrodome on Monday, the REv. Jesse Jackson said, “It is racist to call American citizens refugees.” Members of the U.S. Congressional…
Posted on September 7, 2005 12:16 pm by Shel Holtz | General
Using satellite images offered up by Google Maps, Charles Pizzo has linked to before-and-after photos of his New Orleans home. Closer images of the “after” shot include text indicating where the street and other landmarks are and, even more disheartening, a view of a neighbor’s home where construction was nearing completion and new furniture had been delivered the Friday before Katrina struck.
Posted on September 5, 2005 3:11 pm by Shel Holtz | General | Podcasting
Funny that I spent part of my morning, while recording The Hobson & Holtz Report, trying to articulate why audio is a worthy supplement to text. The comments responded to posts by Darren Barefoot who insists that online text is just plain better in every way.
Funny because, shortly after wrapping up post-production, I heard the special edition of PJ Fenton’s Digital Flotsam…
Posted on September 5, 2005 12:46 pm by Shel Holtz | General
My friend and colleague Gerard Braud, one of the evacuees from New Orleans, forwarded this message to me with permission to post it here. It speaks for itself.
D’Nile—A Lake in New Orleans
Those of us from New Orleans will have lots of crisis communications lessons to share in the coming weeks. Since I specialize in crisis communications and write crisis plans, I’m about to die,…
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