Financial Times: When Procter & Gamble is deciding whether to put its advertisements on television or elsewhere, it puts a call in to Nicosia, Cyprus. The same holds true for Nissan and dozens of other leading corporations and marketing-services agencies. The calls are requests for help and go to Nicosia because the city is the […]
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Skweezer and copyright infringement
A lively discussion is bubbling on Jason Calcanis’ blog on the issue of how others use content you have produced where copyright enters into the picture and, in essence, what’s right and what’s not. Here’s how it started as outlined in Jason’s post on 28 December: It’s one thing to take headlines. It’s one thing […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #1: January 3, 2005
Show notes for January 3, 2005 Welcome to our first podcast, a 43–minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands! Download the file here (MP3, 19.85Mb), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For this, you’ll need an ipodder, software that lets […]
IABC webinar on blogging and RSS
Not sure when this was first advertised, but I just noticed on the IABC website that IABC is holding a teleseminar (webinar?) on Thursday 20 January about blogging, presented by Steve Rubel: Weblogs, citizen journalism and a new technology called really simple syndication (RSS) have permanently changed how companies need to communicate online. Millions of […]
Don’t be dooced in 2005
Very good article on BBC News Online today on the pros and cons of blogging in the workplace. Entitled Looming pitfalls of work blogs, the BBC piece discusses employee blogging and potential legal pitfalls for both employer and employee (covering some similar ground to that published on this topic by ComputerWorld in early November), and […]
How to win friends and executive influence
MediaInsider, the PR Newswire blog, posted an article from PIONet on research that adds some very useful information to the little that’s known about how corporate PR practitioners work to influence and persuade senior management in their organizations – how they obtain and use "clout" – or how they secure perceptions of their value to […]
Five examples of great thinking
Maybe it’s everyone coming back fresh after a break for Christmas and New Year, but whatever it is, I’ve been reading some extremely thoughful and thought-provoking posts in the past few days by some of our fellow business bloggers. Take these five examples, for instance: Andy Lark on Ten Ways Communications Will Change In 2005: […]
The comforting hand of a loved one
Marketing blogger (and fellow IABC member) Angelo Fernando has converted his blog, Hoi Polloi, into a resource for focusing and helping relief efforts from Arizona, where Angelo lives, to Sri Lanka following last week’s tsunami disaster in south Asia: I began this blog, Hoi Polloi, as a MarCom and PR exercise nearly 8 months ago. […]
Six Apart to buy Live Journal
Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad and publishing platform Movable Type, is about to acquire Live Journal for an undisclosed amount, reports Business 2.0 writer Om Malik. If the deal goes through later this month, then Six Apart will become one of the largest weblog companies in the world, with nearly […]
10,000 tourists still missing
Ten days after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Western governments are still struggling to produce precise figures for their missing citizens, BBC News reported today. The death toll among foreigners currently stands at 396, the BBC said, with about 10,000 tourists missing or feared dead. Germans account for the highest number of victims among tourists so […]
A catalyst for the future of blogs
A very good analysis in the Guardian newsblog on the role blogs have played in the Asia tsunami disaster and the long-term catalyzing effect this will have on the significance of blogs in the future: The tsunami may have a profound effect on blogs. These self-published sites have played a huge role in the telling […]
Marqui could re-define marketing and PR
I spent a very interesting 30 minutes last night listening to a Geek News Central podcast recorded on Tuesday – an interview with Stephen King, the CEO of Marqui, the company who’s paying $800 a month to certain bloggers to write about their product. When I first wrote about Marqui’s pay-the-bloggers programme last month, I […]
Confirmed: Six Apart acquires Live Journal
As I said in my post yesterday, things are moving fast in the business of blogs. Strong rumours yesterday, confirmation today. In a press release dated today, Six Apart announced that it has acquired Danga Interactive, the owner of Live Journal, for an undisclosed amount of stock and cash. The press release says that, with […]
Skype to introduce voicemail
Skype, the company behind the flourishing internet telephony network, has begun to experiment with a voicemail service, hoping to introduce new paid offerings to capitalize on its success, eWeek reports. The company confirmed on Tuesday that it was testing voicemail, which a spokeswoman said was scheduled to be rolled out in the first half of […]
Corporate governance fuels boom for enterprise software vendors
Business Week reports on the success of enterprise software vendors and their ‘corporate governance programs’ to fix internal accounting problems, which have become hot sellers in a booming new market: […] It’s a growth business in a mature industry: Market researcher Gartner expects spending on corporate-governance software to hit $6.9 billion in ’06, more than […]
General Motors starts executive blog
General Motors started a blog yesterday, with the first posts by GM Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz: The FastLane blog is your source for the latest, greatest musings of GM leaders on topics relevant to the company, the industry and the global economy, and — most of all — to our customers and other car enthusiasts. […]
Gearing up for the New Communications Forum 2005
Planning proceeds apace for New Communications Forum 2005, the twin conferences taking place in the US and France, the first of which is scheduled for 26-27 January in Napa, California. If you’re in the communication profession – in PR, marketing, advertising, employee communication, etc – and if you are considering starting a corporate blog, want […]
There must be a better way to deal with comment spam
During the past week, I’ve had a trickle of comment spam on my blog. Nothing that I’m overly concerned with (not yet, anyway), but sufficient that for the first time since I started this blog, I’ve been deleting certain comments. I’m mindful of the experience Trevor Cook reported last week, when he had what appeared […]
Oracle closes PeopleSoft deal
Oracle is closing its PeopleSoft acquisition today, after receiving more than 97 percent of PeopleSoft shares in its tender offer. CNET News reports that Oracle set a deadline of Thursday evening for PeopleSoft investors to tender their shares, and was able to meet the 90 percent threshold to do a fast-track close on the deal […]
Holland gives for tsunami relief
News about fundraising efforts for victims of the the tsunami disaster tends to be focused on what’s happening in countries like the US, the UK, Australia, Japan, the EU as a whole, etc. Donations have been pouring in from governments and individuals – the UN says it has received up to $4 billion in pledges […]