Posted on January 5, 2005 5:38 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Slashdot, the collaborative reporting site for the technical elite, reported yesterday that a Web site called VisitorVille Intelligence released information on how employees at some big companies used the World Wide Web based on the companies’ Web monitoring efforts. This combination of employees’ online habits, company monitoring and the Net is right up my alley, so I clicked on over to…
Posted on December 31, 2004 11:01 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
My mom lives about 500 miles away, in Los Angeles, so most of the tech support I provide is over the phone. Whenever I’m in LA, though, I’ll listen to her latest list of PC woes, most of which are easy fixes. I have found that most of my computer-savvy colleagues provide the same kind of support for their parents. Thanks to a link…
Posted on December 30, 2004 8:55 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Amidst all the coverage of the role blogs and wikis have played in the Asian tsunami disaster, it was interesting to note in a Poynter Institute posting today that SMS has also been employed.
SMS—short message service, also known as text messaging—is one of those technologies still viewed as a conversation tool for teens; it hasn’t yet penetrated the world of business…
Posted on December 29, 2004 9:40 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
BusinessWeek doesn’t tend to pay attention to trends until mainstream businesses pay attention. The fact that companies are starting to notice the gradual proliferation of vlogs—video blogs—has caused the venerable business weekly to produce an article for its Web site to tout vlogs as “the latest Net phenomenon.”
Thousands of ordinary (and some downright nutty) people have begun posting a cornucopia of video fare online, from…
Posted on December 29, 2004 9:19 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Sometimes it’s lonely working in the PR business. We look at our cousins in advertising and marketing—the ones with the big budgets—and lament management’s perception that we are a cost center. According to a study from the Council of Public Relations Firms back in 2001, lack of money to invest in new technologies was one of the main reasons the PR profession was so slow…
Posted on December 23, 2004 9:22 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
My friend and communicator of note Bill Boyd sent along a white paper (registration required) from a company called KnowHow touting “The Next Big Thing”—event-driven RSS. KnowHow makes the enterprise server that runs event-driven RSS, designed for internal communicaitons.
The paper outlines the limitations of RSS as it exists today, including…
- Lack of centralized control
- Increased load on infrastructure
- Timeliness, completeness and relevancy of information
- Duplicate content…
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