Posted on May 23, 2016 1:13 pm by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | Content | Visual Communication | Blogging | Brands | Business | Channels | Ethics | Facebook | Intranets | Mobile | PR | Publishing | QR Codes | Technology | Writing and Editing
Cross-posted from the FIR Podcast Network
Today’s panel features Paul Gillin, who is opening a content marketing arm of his company Profitecture (and who also is host of FIR B2B here on the FIR Podcast Network); Carol Kinsey Goman, a keynote speaker, author, and adviser on collaboration, non-verbal communication, and other communication-related issues; and David Murray, executive director of the Professional Speechwriters…
Posted on May 16, 2016 2:05 pm by Shel Holtz | Content | Instagram | Pinterest | Brands | Channels | Ethics | Facebook | For Immediate Release | Marketing | Monitoring | PR | Social Media | Technology | Twitter
Cross-posted from the FIR Podcast Network
Today’s panel features DomainSkate COO Howard Greenstein, Scott Monty Strategies founder Scott Monty, and Trafalgar Communications principal Donna Papacosta, along with host Shel Holtz, exploring these topics:
- Facebook’s Trending Topics kerfuffle, what it means for communicators, and the broader implications of trying to get a message across to people who live in the “filter bubble”
- Instagram’s new logo, which…
Posted on May 13, 2016 11:13 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Sharing and Collaborating | Content | Visual Communication | Advertising | Content Curation | Crisis Communication | Customer Service | Facebook | Marketing | Media | Mobile | Podcasting | PR | Social Media | Technology | Twitter
The Friday Wrap is my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items that flew under the radar while other stories grabbed big headlines. As always, I collect material from which I select Wrap stories (as well as stories…
Posted on May 13, 2016 8:30 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | PR | Technology
I was talking with a friend and colleague about the webinar I’m hosting next Friday to familiarize communications professionals with chatbots.
“Why chatbots?” he said.
“Because the subject is blazing hot and communicators will be using them, probably sooner than they think.”
“Are you sure the subject is blazing hot?” my friend replied. “I’d never heard of them until you told me about the webinar.”
I wasn’t terribly concerned. He’s just…
Posted on April 21, 2016 6:05 pm by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | Internal | PR | Technology
It feels like 1992 all over again.
I first got online around 1985 via a local BBS. I was on CompuServe a year later, and the pre-graphical web in 1990. Through all this time I kept sounding the alarm: The online world is going to change the practice of public relations and organizational communication. Mostly my warnings were dismissed. By…
Posted on April 19, 2016 11:01 am by Shel Holtz | Ethics | Facebook | For Immediate Release | Technology | Video
This is cross-posted from the FIR Podcast Network.
Today’s panel includes Blogger Bridge CEO Chris Christensen (who also hosts the Amateur Traveler podcast), Voce Communications Senior VP Christopher Barger (who is about to open Christopher Barger Communications), and CustomScoop founder Chip Griffin.
Our topics included…
- The implications for communicators of the growing trend of corporations embracing gay rights and issuing public statements opposing statewide…
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