Posted on February 9, 2010 8:46 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Publishing | Research | Social Media
Warning: Long post follows.
Readers of this blog and listeners to my podcast, “For Immediate Release,” know thast I focus primarily on the impact of online media on organizational communications. As a blogger and a podcaster with an audience, companies routinely reach out to me with their news and information in the hopes that I’ll find their content interesting enough to share. It’s only about…
Posted on February 6, 2010 4:38 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Channels | Crisis Communication | Marketing | PR | Presentations | Social Media
Warning: Lost post follows
Back in 1995, “Snow Crash” author Neal Stephenson teamed up with his uncle George Jewsbury under the pseudonym Stephen Bury to produce a potboiler titled “Interface.” The premise: A presidential candidate suffers a stroke and has a chip implanted in his brain. The chip features a wireless connection to feedback from thousands of watch-like devices distributed to a representative sample…
Posted on February 5, 2010 3:46 pm by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Social Media
MediaFunnel is a web-based platform for managing team contributions to an organization’s social media output. Initially developed for teams contributing content to branded Twitter accounts, it is expanding into Facebook and other social media channels.
In this FIR Interview, co-host Shel Holtz speaks with one of the platform’s co-founders and its business development adviser about the potential uses of the platform and how it…
Posted on February 2, 2010 11:19 am by Shel Holtz | SNCR | Social Media | Speaking
Five years ago, I spoke at a little conference in Napa, California. Two social media enthusiasts put it together with a very specific goal: let people who are on top of social media get together. People with specific expertise would present to small groups, there’d be a couple of keynotes, but mostly it would be about gathering and sharing.
Out of that…
Posted on January 31, 2010 2:00 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | PR | Social Media
Last Tuesday, I led a Ragan Communications webinar on the state of the communications profession and where the business is headed. There wasn’t enough time to answer everyone’s question in the time allotted, so I invited questions by email and promised to post them, along with my answers, here so they’d be available to everyone who attended. Here’s what I got and how I answered…
Posted on January 25, 2010 7:23 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Social Media
Despite a flood of recommendations to create one, there are still a lot of companies without policies that let employees know their obligations when engaging in social media. One survey from last August found that one in three lacked policies. A Deloitte survey from just a few months earlier pegged the number at half. And just this month, according to
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