Interview: Shel Holtz, Social Media Guru

Shel Holtz is a social media guru - a recognized authority on how people can thrive in the midst of the current information explosion by using a dynamic 'cloud' of services to promote themselves and built a reputation online. He's the author of How to Do Everything with Podcasting, Blogging for Business, Corporate Conversations and many other books. He gave a workshop on the opening day of the National Speakers Association Winter Workshop in San Francisco today. Shel's blog is a model of Web 2.0 convergence in a world of seamless mobility where vehicles for communicating to a social network are converging rapidly. He cross-references his blog postings to Flickr, Digg, Twitter, de.licio.us, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Skype, Technorati and Utterz. OK? Got that? Well, if you aren't familiar with all these vehicles take a look at the bottom of the left column on his blog where you'll see them in a 'widget' window - meaning if you like what you see you can even host all of Shel's feeds on your own blog or web page. The one social media tool I had never heard of before is Utterz. Shel likes it's flexibility. It allows posts from your mobile phone or online in voice, video, pictures and text, to your blog page. I took the opportunity to indulge in the recursive thrill of doing a podcast interview with a leading podcaster about podcasting. To hear what Shel has to say, click on the icon below.