Posted on March 18, 2013 10:06 am by Shel Holtz | Mobile | Publishing | QR Codes
For a few years, locations with Google Places listings received signs they could hang in their windows. The signs featured a QR code, which passersby could scan to get more information. In 2011, Google stopped printing the signs, noting that the company expected Near-Field Communication (NFC) to replace QR codes.
It’s a common enough theme, the idea that the QR code—widely chastised for a…
Posted on February 1, 2013 9:26 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Business | Customer Service | Facebook | Marketing | Media | QR Codes | Twitter
(c) Can Stock PhotoThe Friday Wrap is a review of articles and posts I’ve found over the past seven days of interest to communicators that they may have missed. I save everything I’ll consider for the Wrap—as well as items to report on my podcast—to my link blog, LinksFromShel.tumblr.com.
Social media is finding its way into call…
Posted on December 5, 2012 10:46 am by Shel Holtz | Augmented Reality | Death Watch | Publishing | QR Codes | Technology
I have long maintained that new media do not kill old media, but rather than old media adapt. Movies didn’t kill plays, television didn’t kill movies and the Web hasn’t killed television (for example), but each has adapted to account for the changes wrought by the newest medium.
The rise of digital content has led many to consign print to history’s dustbin. The steady growth of…
Posted on November 2, 2012 4:59 pm by Shel Holtz | Brands | Business | Crisis Communication | Ethics | Facebook | Marketing | Mobile | QR Codes | Research
(c) Can Stock PhotoThe weekend approacheth, but not before we look back on the last five days and the posts and articles that made an impression. If you’re interested in the pool from which these items were drawn, you can always dip your toes in at Links From Shel.
If somebody was going to come up with a…
Posted on October 26, 2012 12:59 pm by Shel Holtz | Facebook | Mobile | Monitoring | QR Codes | Social Media
(c) Can Stock PhotoYou don’t hear it very often, but Tumblr was down much of today. Since I maintain my link blog at Tumblr, I couldn’t get to my list of potential stories for today’s Wrap until later than usual. Tumblr did get back up and running, though, which meant I was finally able to assemble today’s summary of some great posts you may have…
Posted on October 5, 2012 12:26 pm by Shel Holtz | Instagram | Visual Communication | Pinterest | Brands | Facebook | Measurement | Mobile | QR Codes | Research | Twitter
(c) Can Stock PhotoAnnouncements have been flying fast and furious this week, so it’s almost all hard news in the Friday Wrap, my weekly review of interesting reports from the previous seven days. Every time I find something I might want to include in the wrap (or on my blog or podcast), I save it to my link blog on Tumblr,…
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