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Looking for Stoltz Digital Strategies?

In Defunct business entities on September 7, 2009 at 11:16 pm

You may be looking for Stoltz Digital Strategies, a web and social media agency.

Well, quit looking. Stoltz Digital has been put into cryogenic suspension.

This came about when the agency’s Principal and sole full-time employee, whose name appears in preposterously large type above, signed on to the U.S. government’s digital media team. Yes, he’s now a federal webbist, using digital media to do the people’s business. He’s delighted with this change, but to be fair would probably say that even if he wasn’t. But he is.

In any event, his life as a private sector entrepreneur is over, at least until they can figure out how to unfreeze things that have been cryogenically suspended.

Sliding back into the first person here:

If you’re looking for quality, fairly priced talent to create, develop and execute with websites, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, widgets or emerging digital technologies of suspect value, I can still help. Here’s a list of trusted colleagues, vendors and former competitors who may be able to help you out.

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You.Oh. . .Really: The hype is true

In A Mere 10 Slides of Explanation on September 11, 2009 at 11:40 am

Unhappily, the self-serving digital evangelists are correct: The impact of social media on global culture is hard to overestimate.

Thanks to the development of new digital tools like blogs, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, anyone with access to a computer or cell phone can instantly communicate whatever they want to selected,  interlinking social groups with global reach. This singular fact will drive more disruptive social change than any development since Gutenberg first set ink to moveable type.

Like it or not, every individual and institution must figure out how to thrive in this new world.

Here’s a 10-slide deck that tries to explain, left over from the days when I was a self-serving social media evangelist in private practice. As a practitioner of Government 2.0, I believe it more than ever.

Just 10 slides. Really.

Just 10 slides. Really.

The link above takes you to Slideshare.

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Gov2.0: Defining the Terms

In Suspect Proclamations on September 8, 2009 at 12:48 am

If the term “Web 2.0″ weren’t baffling enough, along comes ” Gov2.0.” You’d reasonably expect Gov2.0 to refer to the application of Web 2.0 to the work of government.

But this only re-begs the question of what Web 2.0 is.

Billions of pixels have been discharged in attempts to explain. I’ll take my shot, but will keep it short: Three 140-character chunks:

Web 1.0: The tweaky or well-capitalized few push information at a large, passive audience. Like Gutenberg, but faster and with cool eyewear.

Web 2.0: Users connect to each other using cheap, easy “social media” [blogs, Twitter, Facebook]: instant, global, multimedia conversation.

Gov2.0: The use of social media to govern and serve the public, who themselves use social media. Big change. Peril? Promise? Correct.

Well, that’s my story, and I’m stickin’ with it. For now.

This is the beauty of 2.anything. We’re all figuring it out as we go along.

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