Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Blog stuff

Reghan Cloudman, public affairs specialist on the Arapaho-Roosevelt NFs, pointed me toward the 
web site and webinars of Shel Holtz.  He is doing a lot of work at the intersection of communications and the new
web tools.  I've provided a link to his blog.

I listened to Shel's most recent podcast  in which he talks about new phenomenon called Twitter, which is a combination of blogging and text messaging.

Also, the New Communications Forum, hosted by Ragan Communications, was held in Las Vegas last week.  This is a major venue for discussing
and learning about social media for public relations.

Finally, check out a new blogging site/tool called Vox, it adds a lot of multimedia features and the ability to control who can subscribe to your blog.

1 comment:

CRomero said...

The National Park Service has entered into the world of podcasting and here's an example of one: http://www.nps.gov/glac/photosmultimedia/podcasts.htm

Also, this site,
http://freegovinfo.info/node/174, contains other federal agency and department podcasts. It's interesting to see how podcasts are being used to reach a diverse and targeted audience. Check them out and we can discuss our Region 7 site and how to incorportate our podcasts into it. The internal FS website needs a major makeover!