Posted on April 4, 2007 10:09 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media | Participatory Communication | Social Media | Social Networking
I am overly tired of the “X is dead” redundancy. I understand the enthusiasm with which those who spout “X is dead” embrace what they believe in, but communication channels rarely die because of the advent of something new, even when that new thing represents a revolutionary, paradigm-changing development. Print didn’t replace face-to-face communication, after all, and television didn’t kill radio.
I’ll bet the first person to leave a comment…
Posted on March 6, 2007 10:34 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Crisis Communication | External | Media
Electronics retailer Best Buy is in hot water. Near as I can tell, they shouldn’t be. What’s gone wrong at the Minneapolis-based company seems to be a lack of coordination rather than the underhanded scheme that characterizes reporting about the crisis.
And it is a crisis, make no mistake. The company stands accused of maintaining a “secret” intranet that duplicates its consumer website but with…
Posted on March 1, 2007 2:40 pm by Shel Holtz | General | Media
It’s been tough to blog about items appearing in PRWeek, since the content has been accessible only by password to paying subscribers. All that has changed, though, as the venerable industry trade has soft-launched its open site that will be announced officially on March 9.
According to the magazine’s PR rep, Kent Holland of Plesser Holland…
PR Week is un-gating the news to ensure that a…
Posted on February 28, 2007 6:04 pm by Shel Holtz | Crisis Communication | Media
UPDATE:: Jenny Dervin has clarified her comments in a post to the PRWeek blog; thanks to Rob Clark for pointing out in a comment to this post. The salient paragraph: “???Every industry has an ambulance chaser segment, and in crisis situations, this is the group that smells blood and goes in for the kill. I was addressing my comments to those…
Posted on February 19, 2007 5:45 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media | Social Media
Catching up on my feeds after a two-week stint on the road that left me with little time, I stumbled across a post from Stowe Boyd reporting on a Zogby study. The survey reveals that most Americans believe bloggers and citizen journalists will play an increasingly significant role in the way news is reported. I agree with the results of…
Posted on February 13, 2007 7:45 am by Shel Holtz | Media | Social Media
As the kerfuffle over the social media press release dies down, I have to confess to surprise at a statement made by Robert French at a geek dinner in Atlanta last week. Robert teaches public relations at Auburn University where he requires his students to blog; he insists that they understand the role the conversation plays in organizational communication. But…
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