Posted on February 16, 2010 12:24 pm by Shel Holtz | Advertising | Blogging | Marketing | Podcasting | Social networks | Twitter
UPDATE: WOMMA has issued its press release on its new guidelines for social media disclosure.
The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) is set to issue a guide to disclosure in social media marketing sometime tomorrow, February 17. The guide was prompted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s new guidelines for disclosure of relationships between companies and people discussing them and their…
Posted on February 8, 2010 3:49 pm by Shel Holtz | Social networks | Technology
In a comment left recently to a post I wrote for Stop Blocking back in October 2007 about malware on Facebook, David Jones with CommerceMicro wrote:
Stupid, out dated information.
We have users that repeatedly get infected with viruses and spyware no matter what level or type of antivirus and antispyware software we install. It???s rather odd that ONLY THOSE particular users…
Posted on November 3, 2009 6:09 pm by Shel Holtz | Internal | Social networks
Awareness is rising of the impact on business of networked employees—those workers who are continuously connected to their social circles and can tap into them at will. The discussion seems to be shifting, ever so slowly, to the characteristics of companies that, rather than inhibiting these traits, want to reap the benefits of a networked workforce. Recent posts by Olivier Blanchard and
Posted on October 13, 2009 11:22 am by Shel Holtz | Social Media | Social networks
Cross-posted from Stop Blocking.
Abuse of an established company policy is a management issue. Even when it involves company systems, it is not an IT issue. The abdication of management responsibilities to IT may briefly create the perception that the problem has been solved. In fact, a larger problem has been created.
Consider the case of a Boston-area hospital which has blocked…
Posted on August 30, 2009 11:36 am by Shel Holtz | Internal | RSS | Social Media | Social networks | Technology
I was struck by two items that surfaced in my RSS feeds this morning.
(Yes, I still use RSS. RSS is nowhere near dead. I understand that armies of people are abandoning RSS for “better” tools but, like Dave Winer, I think people confuse Google Reader with RSS. And, like Marshall Kirkpatrick, I’m fine with the growing abandonment RSS. The more who dismiss it,…
Posted on August 28, 2009 5:40 pm by Shel Holtz | Intranets | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Trust | Web
With only so many hours in a day, I have to choose where to commit my energy. As a result, some projects take a back seat. But after pondering two sets of data, I’m recommitting myself to my Stop Blocking initiative.
But it won’t do any good if I do this by myself. I need help to keep the wiki updated.
Bear with me, and…
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