Posted on January 23, 2007 12:40 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | PR
I like Edelman. I really do. I like Richard and think he’s a smart guy who understands the social media landscape. I like the people I know who work there. I like some of them a lot. But it seems that the hits just keep on coming for the world’s largest independent PR agency. Business 2.0 has just unveiled its 101 Dumbest…
Posted on January 22, 2007 9:43 am by Shel Holtz | PR
In a comment to the social media press release post, the always thoughtful Jay Rosen makes this point:
...it is unwise (meaning self-deceptive) for corporate PR people to call themselves a ???profession.??? A profession gains a cetain amount of autonomy due to widespread respect for a body of knowledge the professional commands. Absent those two things, the term ???professional??? loses substantive meaning and…
Posted on January 21, 2007 7:49 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media | PR | Social Media
Frankly, I thought the “press-release-is-dead” meme was over a year or so ago after the delightful Amy Gahran and I engaged in some friendly disagreement about it. What goes around, I suppose, comes around.
Stowe Boyd and I will have to agree to disagree. And he’s welcome to think I don’t “get it” (a phrase, by the way, I despise as much as Stowe dislikes “audience” and…
Posted on January 21, 2007 11:39 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media | PR | Social Media
Warning! Long post follows.
For me, one of the great frustrations of working in the PR profession is the number of people who think they understand it without the benefit of any background in it. Public relations is a field in which scholars devote their lives to researching models and theories. You can earn a doctorate in PR. The field of…
Posted on January 16, 2007 7:45 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media | PR | Social Media
I’m not sure what to make of the announcement that PR Newswire press releases will now include a Technorati button.
On the one hand, it’s great that one of the giants of news release distribution services is expanding the scope of its social media integration (PR Newswire is among several such services that, for instance, offer a del.icio.us button). On the other hand, I’m…
Posted on December 26, 2006 1:50 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Crisis Communication | PR | RSS
The beating Microsoft is taking in the blogosphere and elsewhere over a patent filing leads me to wonder whether this isn’t an instance where some solid, formal communication might be in order. Leaving it to Microsoft’s employee blogging force doesn’t seem to be doing much good.
The kerfuffle erupted when the patent filings from June 2005 became public on Christmas Day when a…
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