Posted on August 30, 2007 2:20 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Social Media | Video
When we talk about industries that haven’t yet figured out the social media space, the grocery business rarely finds its way into the discussion. The venerable U.S. grocery chain A&P may have changed that with one single remarkably stupid legal action.
Here’s the story: Two brothers—Mark and Matthew D’Avella—worked at an A&P in New Jersey (where their dad happens to manage the produce department). They’re also in…
Posted on August 29, 2007 4:04 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Search | Video
I’m feeling pretty bad for Robert Scoble.
Last weekend, Robert released a series of video brain dumps that explained why he thinks “Mahalo, Techmeme and Facebook are going to kick Google‘s butt in four years.” Since then, he’s been the subject of some scathing critiques that not only point out the technological flaws in his argument but do so in an unnecessarily personal way.
- Danny…
Posted on August 22, 2007 2:18 pm by Shel Holtz | Video
The introduction of ads integrated into YouTube videos has made quite a splash in the media; coverage has been widespread. The announcement of the ads on Broadcasting Ourselves, YouTube’s own blog, though, has been met with a less-than-enthusiastic response based largely on a misunderstanding of which videos will have the spots added.
The relevant part of the blog post reads:
...we’ve been working with…
Posted on August 7, 2007 11:58 am by Shel Holtz | Social Media | Tagging and Microformats | Video
CommonCraft has long been one of my favorite blogs. To this day I still point people to a post that’s now a couple years old explaining the difference between blogs and message boards. Lately, CommonCraft’s Lee LeFever has been cranking out terrific videos using a paper-animation technique that explain complex Web 2.0 concepts in “Plain English.” The latest covers social bookmarking, using del.icio.us as…
Posted on August 6, 2007 4:03 pm by Shel Holtz | Internal | Social Networking | Video
Hot on the heels of MyRagan, a social networking site for communicators, Ragan Communications today launched MyRaganTV, a companion site (only a single login is required for both sites) that is a kind of YouTube for communications video content. Like MyRagan, MyRaganTV is free.
The site was populated at launch with a variety of Ragan videos, including interviews with the likes…
Posted on August 1, 2007 8:46 am by Shel Holtz | Media | Video
It is increasingly interesting to witness the mashup of trends as various businesses experiment with and figure out new media. The latest example is the venerable New York Times, which has been innovating the use of video on its website. The notion of a newspaper doing excellent video is by itself an eye-opener. So far, the newspaper has been offering…
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