Posted on July 9, 2009 11:01 pm by Shel Holtz | PR | Social Media | Technology
Paul May took me on a deep dive of his nifty online utility, BuzzStream, which I can best describe as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool for managing influencer relationships.
At its core, BuzzStream is a contact list that maintains information about and other online influencers with whom you want to build and maintain relationships on behalf of your organization or…
Posted on June 14, 2009 3:17 pm by Shel Holtz | Mobile | Technology
I finally got my hands on a Palm Pre, which I’m loving.
As much as I have coveted the iPhone, I’ve avoided getting one for a number of reasons. First, there’s AT&T, whose service I abandoned several years ago. The iPhone is great, but it still is exclusive to AT&T, and my experiences that were so bad I’m just not willing to relive them.
Beyond that, I…
Posted on February 9, 2009 12:21 pm by Shel Holtz | Mobile | Technology
Companies and their communicators are well known for missing important technology trends and then having to play catchup. Desktop publishing was the first one I experienced first-hand, followed in rapid succession by email, the World Wide Web, and social media.
When companies miss these developments, not only do they have to struggle to get up to speed, they also have to…
Posted on January 28, 2009 1:54 pm by Shel Holtz | Books | Technology
A few shows back, the Twit crew—Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, and some other guests—praised the Amazon Kindle ebook while simultaneously predicting ebooks would never take off. The gist of their thinking: We never see any Kindles anywhere.
On the other side of the equation is Steve Rubel, who believes we are but six short years away from seeing the death of most…
Posted on January 16, 2009 6:03 pm by Shel Holtz | Social Media | Technology
My biggest problem staying on top of the river of news is that it’s hard to fit on one screen. Tweetdeck wants to sprawl across the width of the monitor, so I have to either cover it up or minimize it when working in Word or Photoshop or some other application. The same issue leads me to leave my RSS reader…
Posted on December 29, 2008 2:15 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics | Technology | Web
All you opponents of Net Neutrality, explain to me why this is okay:
Verizon customers living in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire are being switched over to Fairpoint Communications (Verizon sold its land-line business to Fairpoint in order to erase some debt from its books). (Details here.)
Fairpoint has announced to customers who use the service to access the Net that, effective…
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