Posted on January 8, 2016 10:43 am by Shel Holtz | Management | Sharing and Collaborating | Content | Advertising | Attention | Blogging | Brands | Business | Channels | Customer Service | Facebook | Internal | Legal | Marketing | Measurement | Media | Mobile | PR | Publishing | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Twitter
Happy new year to Friday Wrap readers! In 2015, we had the uncommon experience of both Christmas and New Year’s falling on Fridays, so the Wrap took a break. I hope your break was rewarding and refreshing. As a result of the two-week break, this week’s Wrap is longer than usual, as my collection of items covers three weeks instead of just one.…
Posted on December 28, 2015 6:05 pm by Shel Holtz | Ethics | PR | Transparency | Trust
Public relations practitioners have, for decades, wearily accepted cynicism about our industry. We are spinmeisters. We help companies get away with doing the wrong thing. We put lipstick on pigs, deflect attention from problems, we piss off the journalists we rely on, we spam the web with non-news…
The criticisms and complaints aimed at PR are endless.
Part of the problem is visibility. Bad…
Posted on December 18, 2015 10:47 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Attention | Augmented Reality | Brands | Business | Crisis Communication | Customer Service | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Legal | Marketing | Measurement | Mobile | PR | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Twitter
The Friday Wrap is my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items that flew under the radar while other stories grabbed big headlines. As always, I collect material from which I select Wrap stories (as well as stories…
Posted on December 17, 2015 5:09 pm by Shel Holtz | Sharing and Collaborating | Channels | Internal | PR | Social Media | Technology
Oh, those pesky Millennials. So much blame is heaped on people born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s for a culture where conversation is deteriorating and everybody is texting. “We never talk anymore,” the complaint goes. MIT social studies professor Sherry Turkle has even written a book about it, alarmingly titled, “Reclaiming Conversation.” Meanwhile, recognizing that the highly coveted Millennial market is…
Posted on December 11, 2015 12:00 pm by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | The Workplace Experience | Sharing and Collaborating | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Brands | Business | Content Curation | Customer Service | Facebook | Internal | Marketing | Measurement | Mobile | PR | Social Media | Social networks | Twitter | Video
The Friday Wrap is my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items that flew under the radar while other stories grabbed big headlines. (Here’s hoping this week’s collection makes sense, since I’m writing under the influence of some serious pain meds…
Posted on December 4, 2015 8:48 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Economics | Content | Visual Communication | Brands | Business | Channels | Facebook | Marketing | Media | Mobile | Podcasting | PR | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Twitter | Writing and Editing
The Friday Wrap is back after a Thanksgiving break. I hope your Thanksgiving was as rewarding as mine (with 18 family members gathering at my home). If you’re new to the Wrap, it’s my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items…
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