Shel holtz podcast
Artist: PodLeaders.com - Tom Raftery
Duration: 28′24
Created: Mon, 16 Jan 2006
Location: Cork, Ireland
Category: Speech
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Shel Holtz is a corporate communications consultant, a blogger, podcaster and author.
Before going out on his own, Shel was senior communications consultant and the communications practice leader for Alexander & Alexander Consulting Group, before that he was the director of corporate communications for Allergan, Inc. He held the same title at Mattel, Inc., where he was responsible for employee communications, the organization’s annual report, and regional media relations. He also has worked for William M. Mercer, Inc., ARCO, and Transamerica Financial Corporation.
In 2005, Shel was named an IABC Fellow, the highest honor the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) confers on its members.
His other memberships include the Association of Internet Professionals, and the a href=”http://www.eff.org/”>Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Here are the questions I asked Shel in the interview and the times at which I asked them:
Who is Shel Holtz and what is it that you do? - 0:32
What made you decide to go out on your own? - 1:40
Any regrets? - 2:59
You wouldn’t go back to ‘working for the man’, as they say? - 3:03
You have been a communications consultant for quite a while, what are the greatest changes you have seen to the business and is the rate of change increasing? (or am I just getting old!) - 3:17
Is this shift in the control of the message why you started blogging? - 5:06
How do we get people more aware of and using RSS and similar tools? - 7:55
In Ireland there are still very few companies blogging - would you advise Irish co.s to blog, and if so, why? - 9:47
Marc Canter suggested using blogs internally within companies as a Knowledge Management tool… - 12:25
You are currently writing a book called Blogging for Business with Ted Demopoulos - how will this differ from Shel Israel and Robert Scoble’s book Naked Conversations on the same topic? - 14:01
How did you get together with Neville Hobson and set up your For Immediate Release podcast? - 15:01
Do you have any figures on numbers of listeners for your podcast? - 17:38
The 2 big events this last week were CES and MacWorld - both in California - did you get to go to either of them? - 18:44
What do you see different about the world today, January 2006, from January 2005? - 19:47
You thinking of starting a video blog? - 21:37
Favourite gadget? - 23:32
Mac or PC? - 25:17
Finally, Do you unplug from technology often , to recharge yourself do you have any non-tech hobbies? - 25:45
Download the interview here (6.5mb mp3).
Tags: Shel_holtz, Tom_Raftery, podleaders, corporate_communications, business_blogging, knowledge_management, naked_conversations, Robert_scoble, Shel_Israel,
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