Posted on August 30, 2013 10:18 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Pinterest | Brands | Customer Service | Facebook | Marketing | Research | Social Media | Social Networking | Twitter | Video
This week, everyone buzzed about the Golf Channel’s epic fail as the cable station tried to spin the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech as a golf story. Another big story that had everyone talking was Kevin Spacey’s delivery of the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival, where he schooled the television industry for…
Posted on August 13, 2013 7:24 am by Shel Holtz | Visual Communication | Brands | Mobile | Social Media | Video
If marketers love Vine and Instagram, it should take about 15 seconds for them to jump on MixBit.
Launched last Thursday by YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, MixBit is the latest social visual communication tool to compete in an increasingly crowded field that also includes household names like Pinterest and Tumblr, along with services with high hopes like Streamzoo,…
Posted on August 12, 2013 4:31 pm by Shel Holtz | Instagram | Visual Communication | Content Curation | Social Media | Video
A few months back, Flipboard introduced magazines. As you flip through stories, you can tap the plus sign that now appears with each article and add it to any of the magazines you’ve created. These all become available for other Flipboard users to subscribe to.
These magazines—more than 2 million had been created as of July 23—are essentially curation efforts. Flipboard even uses the word,…
Posted on August 9, 2013 8:56 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Brands | Channels | Facebook | Marketing | Social Networking | Twitter | Video
(c) Can Stock PhotoA steady stream of reports, studies, surveys and announcements flooded my feeds this week. Today’s Wrap includes some big announcements as well as some other items that may have escaped your notice. I collect all the items from which I choose the Wrap contents at my link blog, LinksFromShel.tumblr.com, which also serves as the source for stories I…
(c) Can Stock PhotoThe volume of news of interest to PR and marketing professionals this past week was impressive, and a lot of the stories you may have missed focused on the growing importance of video. Thus, video dominates much of the reporting in this week’s Wrap. Be sure to scroll through all the stories I tagged to consider including in the…
Posted on June 7, 2013 9:29 am by Shel Holtz | Brands | Business | Channels | Facebook | Internal | Intranets | PR | Search | Twitter | Video
(c) Can Stock PhotoHardly a week goes by without some big news dominating our attention, making it harder to catch some of the lesser-reported stories that still could be of value for communication professionals. This week, the sacking of the entire Chicago Sun-Times photo desk was at the top of the heap, and the implications of that decision will reverberate…
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