Posted on July 9, 2009 8:47 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media | PR | Social Media
My friend Dan Janal (whom I haven’t seen in way too long) sent me an email after he read my post on the effectiveness of Social Media Releases (SMRs) asking just what a social media release is.
I wouldn’t have thought I’d be writing a Social Media Release 101 post, given the volume of content already out there dedicated to the topic. But given Dan’s…
Posted on June 18, 2009 6:46 pm by Shel Holtz | Death Watch | Media | Publishing
I was thumbing through my Sunday newspaper earlier this week when I came upon a full-page feature that, despite the dullness of the topic and my own lack of interest in government finance, drew me in. “State Budget 101” featured a cartoon professor walking you through a plain-English explanation of the key issues underlying California’s budget crisis with simple-to-understand charts and graphs. Here’s…
Posted on June 11, 2009 9:44 pm by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Media
Content summary: Shel Holtz was part of the “All-Star” track at the annual world conference of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), presenting on the role of the news release in the social media era. The talk covered both the traditional news release and the social media release.
Both audio and PowerPoint are available here.
- Download the file here (MP3, 29.3Mb, 1:13:05).
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Posted on May 28, 2009 2:29 pm by Shel Holtz | Media | Publishing | Social Media
Fuat Kircaali, the founder and CEO of
Sys-Con Media, has been outlandish in his predictions for the success of his latest venture, a self-publishing site called Ulitzer. (That’s “Pulitzer” without the “P.” Get it?)
How great does Kircaali think the prospects are for the site? “Within the next five years, Time Magazine, the Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, Conde Nast Traveler, and Wikipedia will be replaced by…
Posted on May 18, 2009 3:26 pm by Shel Holtz | Media | Social Media
I’ve been picking up a lot of increased chatter echoing the notion that the crowd—bloggers, Twitterers, and so forth—are poised to render the professional journalism unnecessary. These screeds generally decry journalism’s shortcomings and argue that the existence of so many observers, each passionate about their own interests, will produce better reporting.
Max Kalehoff recently cited Eric Burns, author of All the News That’s Unfit to Print…
Posted on May 4, 2009 1:24 pm by Shel Holtz | Media | Publishing
The “print is dead” meme is based on a couple simple assumptions. First, the digital world can do anything print can do, only better. And second, the economics of print—from turning trees into pulp into paper, then managing the distribution channels—just won’t cut it.
The evidence supporting the meme just keeps pouring in, like word today that The New York Times Company plans to shut down The…
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