Holtz Communications + Technology

Neville Hobson writes that more than two-thirds of UK companies are blocking employee access to Facebook and similar sites based on the fear that employees will waste time rather than get their work done. (This according to according to a study reported in the Daily Telegraph.

I wish I could say I was surprised by this, but I was expecting it.…

Stephen Davies of WebitPR sent me an email that just tickled me. WebitPR issued a social media news release on behalf of Streakr. (Streakr is a spin on del.icio.us that lets people bookmark and rate content they find, identifies similar content, and enables communities to form based on shared interest in the same kind of content.)

Stowe Boyd blogged his skepticism…

Years ago, before social media, I did a presentation at an IABC conference that addressed information overload. The blogosphere didn’t exist, there were none of today’s social networks, no Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce, no media sharing sites, no social bookmarking or ranking sites. Yet email and the web alone seemed to be causing a panic. People overwhelmed by the volume of content lamented the good old…

When the web was relatively new, I worked with a large insurance company to help them begin a monitoring program, this in the days before eWatch and other monitoring services. After the program was in place for a few weeks, the media relations manager got in touch with me to tell me how much time the effort was taking. A…

I’ve read a few commentaries about Thomas Friedman‘s New York Times column on transparency (like this one and this one). I finally decided I had to read it. Problem is, New York Times columnists are available only if you (a) pay $4.95 for the column or (b) pay a monthly subscription fee to read all the NYT columnists.

Well…not really. It took me about 10…

I reported on the Danish School of Journalism’s dialogue-based journalism experiment on yesterday’s FIR, but didn’t have time to list some of the results of the effort. The story appears over at the Online Journalism Review and it holds lessons not only for journalists and publishers, but professional communicators, too.

The class of 22 online journalism students set out to learn firsthand about the impact…