Posted on August 18, 2008 8:15 am by Shel Holtz | Transparency
John C. Havens, my co-author, and I presented a session last Friday at the New Media Expo on the subject of our new book, “Tactical Transparency,” which is due out in November from Jossey Bass. Early indications (as represented by the tweet shown here) suggest the session was pretty well received. The relevance of transparency to the expo is based on the…
Posted on August 15, 2008 6:54 pm by Shel Holtz | Crisis Communication | External | Transparency
I was embarrassed today during my presentation at New Media Expo in Las Vegas. John C. Havens, the co-author of my new book , and I were delivering a talk on the the theme of the book, “Tactical Transparency.” When discussing the notion of being transparent about business processes and problems, I used Apple’s Mobile Me as an example, showing a screen shot of…
Posted on June 30, 2008 9:54 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics | Transparency
On the one hand, Associated Press asserts that it wants to protect its content from abuse by bloggers. On the other hand, they’re willing to sell their content by the word to anyone willing to pay. All of which makes you wonder if the venerable AP has taken any issue at all with the manipulation of its content by one of its…
Posted on November 12, 2007 7:43 am by Shel Holtz | Politics | Transparency
I lauded the Hillary Clinton campaign recently for the launch of The Fact Hub, a blog-based website designed to provide rapid response to rumors, inaccuracies, and factual misstatements. It’s only fair, then, that I call the campaign out for a communications gaffe made all the more egregious by the the fact that FEMA was all over the news recently for making a…
Posted on September 26, 2007 7:59 am by Shel Holtz | PR | Transparency
Microsoft and global PR agency Burson-Marsteller are in hot water over a tactic that flies in the face of what we now about the nature of business and transparency in the era of social computing.
There have been enough instances of false-front organizations, funded by a client and operated by a PR agency, being outed by determined individuals to make you…
Posted on August 27, 2007 10:23 am by Shel Holtz | Business | PR | Transparency | Wikis
Since Virgil Griffith launched Wikipedia Scanner, it’s been open season on organizations whose IP addresses are linked to changes made to entries on the popular DIY encyclopedia. For example…
- PRWeek’s UK edition notes that “PR agencies are flouting Wikipedia rules demanding they do not edit the site. At least six of the PRWeek top ten UK agencies have edited the site in the past year…FD is…
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