Posted on December 27, 2013 9:14 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Visual Communication | Pinterest | Advertising | Brands | Business | Channels | Facebook | IABC | Internal | Marketing | Mobile | PR | Publishing | Search | Social Media
Here at Holtz Communication + Technology, we hope your holiay season has been everything you wished for and that 2014 brings you success and happiness. Even as things wound down for the year at HC+T headquarters, I still collected a treasure trove of great stories you may have missed. You can check out (and follow) the collection of stories from…
Posted on November 25, 2013 2:01 pm by Shel Holtz | Internal
David Murray, my friend and sometime intellectual adversary, wrote a column published today at Ragan.com titled Employee communicators know not what they do. I wrote a reply that wound up being too long to paste into the comments section, so I’m publishing it here as an independent post. I urge you to read David’s remarks for greater context than I provide in my…
Posted on November 14, 2013 3:52 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Internal | Research | Social Media
It’s no surprise that, in most companies, external audiences get all the social media attention. As the McKinsey Global Institute reported in August, adoption of social media is on the rise, but not so much when it comes to employing social software to engage employees.
New research demonstrates that, from several angles, ignoring internal social media is a mistake, and quite likely a…
Posted on November 12, 2013 2:58 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Internal
The FIR Podcast Network is pleased to announce a new podcast on internal communication that will begin on November 26, 2013. Presenter Rachel Miller explains…
Who is doing what in the world of internal communication? You’re in the right place to find out.
I’m pleased to be joining the For Immediate Release fold with a brand new podcast, "FIR presents AllthingsIC with Rachel Miller."
Every month…
Posted on October 30, 2013 4:41 pm by Shel Holtz | Visual Communication | Internal | Intranets
(c) Can Stock PhotoA client recently asked me to put together a webinar for the company’s internal communication staff on hot trends in internal communications. In addition to listing the trends that were already top-of-mind for me, I sought out thought leaders in the internal communications space to see what was on their radars. Here are the 11 trends that every…
Posted on October 14, 2013 7:35 pm by Shel Holtz | Internal | Intranets | Technology
(c) Can Stock PhotoI see my share of intranets.
The intranets I see tend to be the home to content produced by excellent communicators. These smart people understand the role of content in an employee communications strategy. They produce great articles, video and audio. Employees who view their content almost universally like it. Usually, they call me when they can’t figure out why,…
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