Posted on December 27, 2024 1:32 pm by Shel Holtz | Employee Engagement | Virtual and Augmented Reality | The Workplace Experience | Visual Communication | Internal | Measurement | Media | Trust | Diversity | Artificial intelligence (AI)
The futility of New Year’s resolutions was weighing on me the other day. I want to be better at some things in the new year: exercising more, eating healthier, spending more time with family, reading more. I am, however, acutely aware that, according to research, 23 percent of people quit their resolutions by the end of the first week, and 43…
Posted on January 29, 2024 2:00 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Trust
It happens every January, as surely as the Tiffany ball will drop in Times Square on New Year’s Eve: Edelman has released its annual Trust Barometer with a focus on the public’s views on innovation and the pace of change, along with the usual dimensions of trust the survey tracks every year. Neville and Shel examine some of the study’s…
Posted on June 23, 2023 1:31 pm by Shel Holtz | Crisis Communication | PR | Social Media | Social Networking | Trust | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Online disinformation and misinformation have long been a thorn in the side of organizations. The rapid spread of false information, fueled by individuals who believe and share it, poses a significant challenge. After all, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it,” as Jonathan Swift astutely observed back in 1710. (The Americanized version has a lie circling the globe before the truth gets…
Posted on May 5, 2019 12:52 pm by Shel Holtz | Media | Transparency | Trust
Warren Buffet, in an interview with Yahoo Finance, called the newspaper industry “toast.” And while he’s probably right, he’s wrong about what made newspapers effective in the first place.
“The things that are essentially news is what you don’t know that you want to know,” Buffett said. “You know what happened in national sports the moment it happened, and you can go watch a video of it and so on. You can…
Posted on October 17, 2018 12:21 pm by Shel Holtz | Internal | A Model for Employee Communication | Trust
This is the latest installment in a series of posts exploring a new model of employee communication, designed to deliver measurable results that demonstrate the impact on the organization in ways that matter to leaders.

Posted on December 15, 2017 9:36 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Content | Instagram | Advertising | Audio | Brands | Business | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Marketing | Measurement | Mobile | Podcasting | Politics | PR | Research | Technology | Trust | Twitter
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Storify is shutting down—Storify, the curation tool that made it drop-dead easy to curate content around breaking news or issues, will shut down permanently on May 16. Users can still access Storify 2 if they…
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