*June 7, 2013* Want to unsubscribe from this newsletter? Click here. /What a week! On the work front, I conducted a training session on business blogging at Robert Half International. On the personal front, my son got married (on Thursday afternoon, of all times). And on the physical front, I passed two (count 'em, two) kidney stones. That put me out of commission for a chunk of the week, but not enough to stop me from getting the latest news and information from the worlds of digital and social communication to you!/ ...Continue Reading

*May 31, 2013* Want to unsubscribe from this newsletter? Click here. Ahhh, it's great to be back from two weeks on the road! I have three weeks to catch up on work and to get back into the flow of writing for the blog. Among other things, this past week has seen a continued flood of posts from consultants, social media "gurus" and mainstream media offering lessons to be learned from the Facebook meltdown of a pair of restaurant owners in Scottsdale, Arizona. I had to shake my head at these, since the only le ...Continue Reading

*May 24, 2013* Want to unsubscribe from this newsletter? Click here. /I've been in four time zones in the last seven days, but it has been a great set of visits, first speaking in Amsterdam on social media and crisis communications, then two days with a client team to explore social media potential for attracting a new demographic, and finally to the Salt Lake City chapter of PRSA to speak on real-time marketing and content marketing at the chapter's Spring conference. But I have to admit, I'm looking forward to a few ...Continue Reading

*May 17, 2013* Want to unsubscribe from this newsletter? Click here. /This week's Updatecomes to you from Amsterdam, where I presented a session on crisis communications in the social media era at Ragan Communications' PR/Social Media Summit. Fortunately, both the hotel room and the conference venue -- ING House -- have great WiFi. That matters, as you'll see in one of today's items./ Items from the Holtz.com blog published during the last week: Which "fail" was better: Poland Spring's silence or a troubles ...Continue Reading

*May 10, 2013* Want to unsubscribe from this newsletter? Click here. /The week went by in a blur, aided by two speaking engagements, one at the Healthcare Strategy Institute conference in Scottsdale on Sunday, where I co-presented a three-hour workshop on content marketing with The Cleveland Clinic's Scott Linabarger and Ed Bennett from the University of Maryland Medical Center. Then, on Wednesday, it was a talk on content marketing for a joint IABC/PRSA conference in Portland, along with a breakout session on employe ...Continue Reading

HCT Update *May 3, 2013* Want to unsubscribe from this newsletter? Click here. /It was high time for a little vacation, so Michele and I headed off to New Orleans and spent Sunday at JazzFest, where thunderstorms turned the race track into a mud pit. Still, there were great performances, the food was as amazing as always, and the temperatures never rose too high. The rains continued Monday and Tuesday, but that didn't slow down our trip as a friend gave us a tour of the Ninth Ward, where you'd be shocked at how eviden ...Continue Reading

*April 26, 2013* Want to unsubscribe from this newsletter? Click here. /I produced a newsletter last week. It just didn't go out. I thought it had. I only found out days later that it just sat there. The tale of the lost bulletin is long and sordid. I'll spare you the details and just say it was a host server migration gone horribly wrong. The good news is that you can still read that issue; it's archived online here. With that out of the way, let's get on with /this/ week's news.../ Items from the Holtz.com blog publ ...Continue Reading

*April 19, 2013* Want to unsubscribe from this newsletter? Click here. As I prepare the Update today, I'm sitting in Franklin Hall at Kent State University. Kevin Duggan is speaking about visual communication and other new realities of online communication. In the hotel, I was glued to the TV as news reports updated me about the death of one of the Boston bombing terrorist suspect and the hunt for the other. It can be difficult to remember that other news was share during the week -- and for communicators, some of it ...Continue Reading

*April 12, 2013* Want to unsubscribe from this newsletter? Click here. Facebook Phone and Google Glass -- two alliterative products -- dominated much of the tech reporting this week, along with continued coverage of the SEC's decision to add social networks to the mix of media that comply with regulations surrounding material announcements. There was other news, too, which is the point of the weekly Update -- to share some items that may have snuck by under the radar. As always, I draw these stories from a larger coll ...Continue Reading

*April 5, 2013* Want to unsubscribe from this newsletter? Click here. The big news this week was the Securities and Exchange Commission's release of guidelinies for using social media to distribute company news. A hot topic since the days when Jonathan Schwartz ran Sun Microsystems and engaged with the head of the SEC in a conversation about the potential for blogs and RSS to meet Reg FD requirements, we're getting closer and closer to the day when a Facebook update or a tweet will be disclosure-compliant. There's too ...Continue Reading