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A study conducted by eMarketer in early 2009 found that the number of Internet users who consume user generated content and who create it will shoot up significantly in the next four years: ... - Shel Holtz

Based on 1,000 responses, research conducted on behalf of communications provider Lumison found 68 per cent of respondents said they have less face-to-face interaction in the office than they d ... - Shel Holtz

From Razorfish, follows six stages of intranet evolution - Shel Holtz

Social media "share" links generate clicks in e-mail campaigns for an average of 6.8 days, according to a study by Silverpop to be released on Wednesday. The report found the links sometime ... - Shel Holtz

Twitter, a micro-communication service that gives users an opportunity to express their thoughts in 140-character "tweets," is a hit in the social media world. Companies are also benefiting fro ... - Shel Holtz

Fast Flip lets readers glance at pages and browse through them quickly without having to wait for multiple page elements to load, which can significantly slow the rendering of articles, especia ... - Shel Holtz

via mashable.com Crimson Hexagon -- which uses technology based on work from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science to distill meaning about brands, products, etc. -- dete ... - Shel Holtz

Ford handed out 100 European-spec Fiestas, along with gas cards and insurance, to 100 YouTube personalities last spring as part of a campaign dubbed "Fiesta Movement" to raise awareness for the ... - Shel Holtz

The Engagementdb Report published in July sends a clear message about the power of social media. The report, created by Wetpaint and Altimeter, looks at how top brands leverage social media. Wh ... - Shel Holtz

Using a new methodology based on the content and responses of 12 popular users, we determined measurements of relative influence on Twitter. We examined an ecosystem of 134,654 tweets, 15,866,6 ... - Shel Holtz

What kinds of benefits, exactly, does McKinsey see coming out of Web 2.0 sites? In the survey, half of respondents report that Web 2.0 technologies have fostered in-company interactions across ... - Shel Holtz

A study by Manhattan Research of nearly 9,000 U.S. adults showed that last year, 5 percent of respondents had sent or received an e-mail message to a doctor and that 49 percent were interested ... - Shel Holtz

via creativecommons.org From the Creative Commons blog, Coca-Cola has relaunched its Facebook fan page -- which boasts some 3.6 million fans -- accompanied by a Creative Commons "Attri ... - Shel Holtz

This is why internal communications departments exist—to generate that loyalty, to bring the workforce onboard, to maintain motivation and momentum—to ensure the messages that are going out are ... - Shel Holtz

via marketingsherpa.com Marketing Sherpa asserts that social media has become one of three core interactive marketing tactics, along with email and search. This chart is the result of ... - Shel Holtz

Six months ago, Brianna Karp found herself living in an old truck and camper she inherited after the suicide of a father she barely knew. On Monday, her life became a 21st century fairytale ... - Shel Holtz

via techtree.com Yahoo has quietly launched a service called Meme, in invitation-only mode right now, that looks somewhat like Posterous. ... - Shel Holtz

Everyone hates re-runs. They're episodes you've likely already seen, being run out of order because there is no new content to run. But Fox may have just figured out a way to make them more int ... - Shel Holtz

Using Social Networks for Training HR can keep training fresh as well as capitalize on the knowledge of ... - Shel Holtz

Deceptive Online Practices Under the PRSA Code of Ethics, the source of editorial material must be clearly identified. Any attempts to mislead or deceive an uninformed audience are considered ... - Shel Holtz

Once again, it seems that independent developers and site owners are ahead of the curve with implementations of Augmented Reality (AR). These two videos demonstrate Yelp's recently released iPhone app ... - Shel Holtz

Adam Parker of RealWire sent me this link to a video his company produced on Onine PR. It's really about PR in the social media space, since online PR is a far broader subject that can embrace several ... - Shel Holtz

The Personas tool from the MIT Media Lab creates a data portrait of your online identity. That is, according to the Personas site, it shows you the way the Internet sees you. Enter your name and Perso ... - Shel Holtz

The first time I saw anyone crowdsource their organization's social media guidelines, CEO Michael Hyatt posted his proposed guidelines for Thomas Nelson Publishers to his blog. Since then, soliciting p ... - Shel Holtz

With Shel Israel at the "Twitterville" book launch party yesterday, just after Shel #1 autographed my copy. Quite a crowd at the San Carlos, CA-based aviation museum, including Robert Scoble, Jeremiah ... - Shel Holtz

A Nielsen Norman Group (NNG) study on the use of social media on intranets finds that most of the really successful projects were started as "unsanctioned, grassroots efforts led by front-line workers, ... - Shel Holtz

How vague are the ethical guidelines for bloggers? Pretty vague if the discussion taking place on Leah Jones' blog on her Natiiv Arts - Shel Holtz

This catfight hardly seems worthy of attention, except for the fact that the outed blogger is claiming that the target of her attacks is herself to blame for the controversy -- and people are listenin ... - Shel Holtz

Dr. Nora Barnes, Elisa Camahort and Dr. Mihaela Vorvaneau at SNCR fellows retreat.-- Sent from my Palm PreShel HoltzShel@holtz.com415-864-2249 ... - Shel Holtz

Here's a nice bit of placement for the Public Relations Society of America. Politico's Ben Smith has included an interview with 2009-10 Chair Mike Cherenson in a piece on the use of astroturfing in the ... - Shel Holtz