Posted on January 13, 2011 9:54 am by Shel Holtz | Social Media
I have been watching Quora for a while now—both the site and the discussion swirling around it—for long enough to be convinced that the Q-and-A service will probably become an established social channel that should thrive and grow.
That’s not to say it can’t stand some improvement, but what new site can’t?
Quora has attracted a lot of attention in the last few weeks based largely on the…
Posted on January 11, 2011 1:38 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics | Social Media
Crowdsourcing has become more and more common among businesses for everything from product and service ideas (MyStarbucks Idea, Dell’s IdeaStorm) to populating a stock photo service (iStockphoto) to finding a needle in a haystack (the SETI@Home project, searching satellite photos for the wreckage of Steve Fossett’s experimental plane). GoldCorp is still in business because it crowdsourced its hunt for a new gold vein.…
Posted on January 5, 2011 1:19 pm by Shel Holtz | Media | PR | Social Media
The emerging conversation about the importance of curating content can help settle some of the claims and misunderstandings of the social media news release (SMNR).
The most recent assault on the SMNR was levelled by Jeff Mascott of Adfero Group. Mascott wrote:
... eliminating narrative content altogether is a mistake.
Reducing content to bulleted lists fosters cynicism about the press. By trying to…
Posted on January 4, 2011 3:19 pm by Shel Holtz | Social Media | Social networks
I’m on the road about half the time. As a result, I’ve had just about every experience a traveler can have (short of a crash, the one experience I hope to avoid). For example…
- I run into people I know at the terminal. Most recently, it was Brian Solis, who was waiting at O’Hare for the same San Francisco-bound flight I was on. We both lamented…
Posted on December 28, 2010 12:14 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Facebook | Marketing | Social Media | Twitter
UPDATE: Today, January 14, Etsy has announced policy changes that were sparked by the protest outlined in the post below. These changes prohibit the offending products. The post notes that the “intense debate” online led to the review of the policies and subsequent changes.
UPDATE: CNN Headline News has covered the tale of the cards for sale on Etsy.
UPDATE: Per Jonathan Mast, Etsy…
Posted on December 24, 2010 10:47 am by Shel Holtz | Business | PR | Social Media
I have, over the course of my career, been on both sides of the RFP equation. As a sender of RFPs, I have been dismayed by the lack of attention vendors have paid to the questions we wanted answered, opting instead to push their own agenda. On the recipient side, I’ve been bemused by the widely varying approaches companies take to…
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