Posted on July 12, 2005 5:54 am by Shel Holtz | Media | Politics | RSS
A report released by Forrester last week suggests that podcasting is not only more than a fad, it’s just the first stage in what will evolve into a world of full-blown multimedia subscription. While some may argue that podcasting will never catch on, the BBC apparently has got the religion. One of the first mainstream media outlets to make its audio…
Posted on June 1, 2005 5:11 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics
Recent statements by US President George W. Bush and some of his top staff members makes you wonder if they’re getting or ignoring advice from people who understand the principles of public relations. It almost seems like a deliberate attempt to undermine their own PR efforts.
Caveat: This is not a political discussion. It’s an analysis of a PR move that happens to have…
Posted on March 7, 2005 9:19 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Politics
Last week was unusually busy, so I spent some time this morning catching up on e-mail and blog posts. One message caught my eye. Alice Marshall, posting to the Global PR Blog Week mailing list, asks, “How would you advise your client in this kind of situation?”
She points to a message posted to The Daily Kos titled “Open Source Research Project: Alan Greenspan.”…
Posted on February 11, 2005 9:50 am by Shel Holtz | Media | Politics
Transparency is perhaps the most significant business and media issue of the decade. Following the uncovering of ethical lapses by everyone from Enron to Ketchum, the public—not to mention regulatory agencies—are demanding transparency. Even journalists appear willing to have their source material exposed to public scrutiny (see “Can PR Handle Transparency?”) And yet political bloggers on both sides of the fence seem to believe they…
Posted on February 6, 2005 2:14 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics
This morning, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, a guest on Wolf Blitzer’s Sunday morning interview show on CNN, defending the Pentagon’s development of new Web sites designed to provide information to a global audience. Blitzer asked whether these sites violated President Bush’s new edict forbidding payment to PR agencies in order to promote the administration’s political agenda. Rumsfeld responded that these sites had…
Posted on January 13, 2005 9:46 am by Shel Holtz | Politics
After Colorado Governor Bill Owens wraps up his State of the State address, he’ll meet for 30 minutes with members of the Rocky Mountain Alliance of Bloggers (RMA), a group of conservative Colorado bloggers. The RMA claims this makes them the first blogging group to get such an invitation. Earlier, Colorado House Minority Leader Joe Stengel extended an invitation for the RMA…
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