Tomorrow I’ll be in Manchester participating in Marketing 2.0, a half-day seminar from KMP Interactive Marketing and Technology. We will be discussing how the web is dramatically influencing the way in which people communicate and interact with brands and companies. My contribution to the overall theme is about public relations…
Reading Jeremiah Owyang’s post on phrases he overhears when people talk about social media reminds me of another one that I hear all too frequently: “Let’s harness the power of social media.” ‘Harness’ is one of the words many communicators and marketers have loved since the dawn of time. You…
Content summary: Shel Holtz presents Social Networks and Business Communication, a session during the ‘All-Star’ slot at the IABC International Conference in New York City on June 25, 2008. (The All-Star track features speakers who have received high ratings during previous conferences.) Listen to this podcast now: [display_podcast] Get this…
Getting ready to leave the Windy City after three fascinating days here. The picture above is one of many I shot this morning (Chicago time) along Michigan Avenue, all with my Nokia N95 8GB. I also did a video walkabout, so to speak, just walking with the video camera on.…
Content summary: Neville’s at Edelman New Media Academic Summit; Shel wraps up IABC’s international conference in New York; Neville talks about the summit in Chicago and the home baseball team, the Chicago Cubs; CustomScoop’s Media Monitoring Minute; Dan York’s report; News That Fits includes a look at Facebook and Visa…
Today I travel to Chicago, USA, where I’ll be participating in the New Media Academic Summit 2008, organized by Edelman and co-hosted by Edelman and PR Week. There’s an impressive lineup of speakers, and an equally if not more impressive line up of participants representing nearly 70 universities from across…
I visited the Financial Times headquarters in London yesterday, part of a group of six bloggers who met with some senior FT editors and reporters for an informal get-together to talk about FT.com, blogging, journalism and anything else that took our collective fancies. As someone who’s been a paid subscriber…
Content summary: Shel’s at the IABC conference in New York; two new interviews are up, including one from PR Junction; Michael Netzley reports on apologies in South Korea; Media Monitoring Minute; One-Minute News is gone, it’s now ‘News That Fits’: brands are not winning friends on social networks, social network…
