Holtz Communications + Technology

Join me in the wayback machine. We’ll set the dial for 1980, the height of production of printed internal communications. There were magazines, newsletters, magapapers, newspapers. These communiques were produced by the corporation, business units, departments and teams. Memos flew through mailrooms and fax machines and photocopiers spewed a landfill’s worth of material.

Paper isn’t cheap—and it wasn’t cheap in 1980—but as the demand for paper-based…

This blog features a creative Commons license that lets anybody do anything they like with the content published here, as long as proper attribution is given and it’s used for non-commercial purposes. I have agreements with a couple organizations to republish posts (including Ragan Communications and Social Media Today). Basically, what all this means is that the same content appears in…

The surge in smartphone ownership seems to be supporting a parallel rise in the use of QR tags. Marketers, advertisers and communicators should start incorporating tags into their planning now. The cost is minimal and the benefits could be huge.

A week or so ago I was shopping for a TV stand, that piece of furniture that supports a flat-panel television…

On Wednesday, I joined a number of other guests and some 200 Dell employees in Austin for SMaC Talk. SMaC is Dell’s Social Media Community; the meeting pulled together the employees who work in the social media space in business units and staff functions from throughout the organization for an unconference. (More to come on that.) At the end of the day,…

As I reported a while back, I’ve made the decision to go Apple-free. You can read my original post for an explanation, although I’ll reiterate that this is a personal decision. I’m not trying to start a movement or convince anybody else to join the cause.

Here’s how it’s going so far:

iPod

I’m on the road a lot, so having an extensive music collection is important, not only…

I have made the decision to go completely Apple-free.

This is a personal decision. I have no intention of trying to start a movement or get others to join me. Personally, though, I have enough problems with Apple and the way it conducts business that I’ve concluded that I simply don’t have to support these practices with a nickel of my money, nor do I…