Posted on August 3, 2012 12:23 pm by Shel Holtz | Channels | Crisis Communication | Facebook | Marketing | Mobile | PR | Research
(c) Can Stock PhotoThe Friday Wrap is a collection of items from the last week I found interesting. Not interesting enough to turn into a whole blog post, but interesting enough to include in The Friday Wrap.
Frank Eliason, who rose to folk-hero status for introducing the Comcast Cares Twitter account—one of the first…
Posted on July 20, 2012 12:46 pm by Shel Holtz | Facebook | Location-based Services | Mobile | Research | Search | Social Media | Twitter
(c) Can Stock PhotoA survey of some of the stories from the last week that caught my eye as they passed by in the stream
Research group Gartner raised eyebrows with its projection that half of organizations that manage innovation processes will apply gamification to those efforts by 2015. A year earlier, Gartner said, more than 70%…
Posted on June 21, 2012 7:40 am by Shel Holtz | Mobile | Research | Technology
A mobility audit is the first of three steps in a strategy to put the right mobile solutions in the hands of the right employees, according to a report The Altimeter Group issued earlier this month.
“It’s likely that most workers inside an organization are toting mobile devices,” the report says. “The question becomes what are the devices and who is using them.” Altimeter…
Posted on June 15, 2012 9:35 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Content Curation | Marketing | Research | Social Media | Technology | Twitter
A review of some of the more interesting stories that have crossed my feeds in the last seven days.
If you’re The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC or another brand on the list of Twitter’s partner companies, your followers will soon be able to see something followers of no other account can see: more than 140 chararacters. These “expanded postings” will show video,…
Posted on June 3, 2012 9:24 am by Shel Holtz | Gamification | Research | Social Networking
The New York Times dredged up a 2-1/2-year-old study to kick off a flurry of reporting about a new digital divide. The old digital divide had to do with access: Disadvantaged populations had less. Now that pretty much everyone can get online, the Times reports on a flurry of activity to ensure low-income families are digitally-literate so their children don’t get…
Posted on May 30, 2012 10:46 am by Shel Holtz | Media | Research | Social Media
When newspapers first started publishing to the web, the content was free. Back then, the web was a secondary source, a supplement to newspaper that landed on your doorstep (or in your gutter) every day. As digital content grew more popular and newspaper subscriptions rates started their descent, publishers struggled to find ways to replace the income from paid subscriptions…
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