Posted on July 10, 2011 12:33 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics | Social Media | Twitter
Politics breeds cynicism that way email breeds spam. A lot of the cynicism directed at US President Barack Obama’s Twitter Town Hall is misplaced.
To be clear, my opinions would be identical if this had been a Republican president making history as the first President to conduct a Q&A session with citizens via Twitter.
The criticisms fell roughly into three camps:
- It was just a…
Posted on January 11, 2011 1:38 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics | Social Media
Crowdsourcing has become more and more common among businesses for everything from product and service ideas (MyStarbucks Idea, Dell’s IdeaStorm) to populating a stock photo service (iStockphoto) to finding a needle in a haystack (the SETI@Home project, searching satellite photos for the wreckage of Steve Fossett’s experimental plane). GoldCorp is still in business because it crowdsourced its hunt for a new gold vein.…
Posted on September 28, 2009 7:12 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics
This isn’t a typical post. But it has been weighing on me and I need to get it off my chest.
Whether the murder of Bill Sparkman was truly perpetrated because he was a federal employee has yet to be proven, but the circumstances of his death should strike fear in the heart of any rationale person.
Sparkman was found in Kentucky’s Daniel Boone…
Posted on June 19, 2009 1:48 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics | Twitter
Neville Hobson just tweeted a link to a news story in the Croydon Guardian about the suspension of a Twitter account. In a nutshell, the Croydon Council had launched a print newspaper for distribution to residents of the town to ensure they received town news distributed principally through press releases. Someone on the staff had set up a Twitter account…
Posted on April 3, 2009 9:12 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics | PR
Barb Gibson, the 2008-09 chair of IABC, sent a letter to Tony Ryall, New Zealand’s State Services Minister, seeking reconsideration of an order to all department heads to reduce the number PR staff. Neville covered the issue on Thursday’s FIR.
Among the responses to Barb’s blog post on the issue is a comment from Graeme Purches, the president elect of the Public Relations…
Posted on March 5, 2009 11:17 am by Shel Holtz | Politics
Throughout US history, political parties that once held great power have become irrelevant and vanished from the scene. The Federalists were the first major party to go down this road. The party of John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and Daniel Webster ultimately suffered from unpopular decisions made by the Adams administration coupled with the politically astute, if somewhat less-than-ethical anti-Federalist campaign…
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