Posted on March 13, 2009 10:01 am by Shel Holtz | Twitter
I’ve heard of people using Twitter to get help from people nearby. Guy Kawasaki needed a power cable for his laptop while staying (if memory serves) at the Hotel del Coronado. A nearby resident read the tweet and offered to drop by with a spare on his way to work.
But I don’t think it has ever gotten more local than this:
At Ragan…
Posted on February 12, 2009 8:10 am by Shel Holtz | IABC | Twitter
I just delivered the opening keynote talk at the Business Communicators Summit, an annual event put on by IABC’s Kansas City chapter. Attendance is about 210 or so, up from about 130 last year.
The conference has embraced a variety of technologies, mostly Twitter. There’s a hashtag (#kcbcs) you can use right now to follow the conference, and participants were encouraged during…
Posted on December 19, 2008 3:52 pm by Shel Holtz | Crisis Communication | New Media | Twitter
The recent (and very civil) disagreement between Thornley Fallis CEO Joe Thornley and CBC Producer Ira Basen over live Twittering of a talk Basen gave has led me to recall my one and only brush with sports reporting.
I was an intern at the Thousand Oaks News-Chronicle (now defunct, folded into the Ventura County Star), a six-day daily (no paper on…
Posted on December 3, 2008 7:42 pm by Shel Holtz | Brands | Facebook | Marketing | Social Media | Twitter
Since the whirlwind of activity that resulted in McNeil Laboratories pulling a Motrin ad campaign and issuing an apology, a chorus of naysaying has emerged that downplays the significance of the events. Some of these opinions make good points while others are just downright silly. Ultimately, though, what occurred between the brand and the mommy bloggers who launched the offensive…
Posted on December 1, 2008 8:51 am by Shel Holtz | Twitter
During last week’s horrific events in Mumbai, the Indian government issued pleas for people witnessing events to stop using Twitter to provide instant news updates. Reports even suggested that the government had reached out to Twitter to block any updates that might provide the terrorists with information about the movements of counter-terrorist forces.
While scores of blogs have remarked on Twitter’s real-time role in…
Posted on November 22, 2008 2:00 pm by Shel Holtz | Social Media | Twitter
Last Friday (November 14), the night before the SNCR research symposium in Cambridge, about 20 social media fans got together at Vox Populi for drinks, food, drinks, camaraderie, and drinks. Did I mention drinks?
John Wall put the event together and spread the word through Twitter, making the gathering an official tweetup. Among those who attended, I’d either already met them, had…
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