Posted on January 1, 2012 11:41 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Content Curation | Media
There’s plenty of evidence that business is adopting content curation, but the practice hasn’t been around long enough for organizations to innovate more targeted, results-focused uses.
Business takes many of its lessons from how everyone else makes use of social tools. To start applying content curation, communicators need to pay attention to how others are using the crop of curation tools that have found…
Posted on October 3, 2011 5:24 pm by Shel Holtz | Media | Social Media
It must have been 1995 or so when my friend Charles Pizzo was on a train somewhere. Neither of our memories are able to retrieve the precise route of that train, but we do remember that Charles got off at a stop to use a pay phone to check in with his office.
At the time, he and his colleague…
Posted on September 16, 2011 7:44 am by Shel Holtz | Content Curation | Internal | Intranets | Media
During a recent talk on content curation, I showed a page from American Electric Power’s intranet that included news about the company from external sources. Several in the audience wondered how the communicators at AEP curated that content, so I asked Internal Communications Director William Amurgis for a quick rundown. Instead, he replied with an email that was good enough to be a…
Posted on September 12, 2011 12:54 pm by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Media
Cut from FIR #616:
- Online Journalism Review: Which social media tool is the right one for PR professionals?
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Posted on September 11, 2011 9:18 am by Shel Holtz | Books | For Immediate Release | Media
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld.
FIR Book Reviews editor Bob LeDrew reviews The Influencing Machine, from the co-host and editor of NPR’s On the Media and co-author Josh Neufeld. Here’s a description of the book from Amazon.com
“Nearly one million weekly listeners trust NPR’s Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the distortions and complexities of the modern media.…
Posted on September 8, 2011 10:08 am by Shel Holtz | Content Curation | Media | Search | Social Media
Media, social and mainstream alike, are abuzz with Google’s acquisition of ZAGAT, which was a curator of diners’ reviews of restaurants (along with hotels, theatears, golf courses andmore) before the World Wide Web existed. According to Local, Maps and Location Services VP marissa Mayer, writing on the official Google blog:
Zagat will be a cornerstone of our local offering—delighting people with their impressive…
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