Holtz Communications + Technology

The Friday Wrap is a review of some of the posts and news items from the last week that I found particularly interesting—and that you may have missed amidst other stories that got bigger play. I select these stories from a pool of items I collect during the week at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com, which you’re welcome to peruse. It’s the same collection from which I draw…

(c) Can Stock PhotoThis week’s Wrap comes to you from Amsterdam, where I presented a session on crisis communications in the social media era at Ragan Communications’ PR/Social Media Summit. Fortunately, both the hotel room and the conference venue—ING House—have great WiFi. That matters, as you’ll see in one of today’s items, which I culled from my link blog at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com.

(c) Can Stock PhotoHere’s the weekly rundown of reports, articles and posts from the last week that caught my attention that didn’t get widespread coverage. I select these items from a larger collection of pieces I save to my link blog: LinksFromShel.tumblr.com.

The holiday shopping season saw retail sales rise, and much of what consumers spent was…

The surging popularity of photo sharing, marketers’ desire to capitalize on those images for brand purposes, emerging technologies, and the law appear to be on a collision course.

Just as social media management company Venueseen opens an API designed to scoop up Instagram photos for use in a brand’s marketing efforts, a New York judge has ruled that two news outlets infringed on a…

Image (c) Can Stock PhotoDid you miss me last week? The Brazil trip turned into a longer stay than I planned, thanks to airport closures due to Hurricane Isaac. But I’m back, so let’s wrap the week! This is my (mostly) weekly review of items that crossed my newsfeeds over the last seven days that are interesting enough to report but didn’t…

There is no doubt that anonymity enables most of the truly heinous actions taken online. Anonymity also enables people living in repressive regimes to communicate what’s happening in their countries. In Egypt, anonymous bloggers spoke out against the Mubarak regime. Those who were identified were dragged from their homes and thrown in jail. Anonymity was their only protection.

New York isn’t exactly a…