eWeek: In the quest to organize the web’s information, an emerging approach is putting the power to categorize everything from links to digital photos into the hands of users. In the halls and session rooms at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference [in San Diego], a series of talks this week explored the growing use of […]
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #16: March 17, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments: on PR ethics, slowing down podcasts, learning the ins and outs, listening to a ground-breaking first podcast, music and intersection with the past; Podshow.com and lowering the barriers to entry; folksonomies and categorizing your information; new communication channels too early for Europeans; iPodder new release and FeedDemon’s podcasting. Show notes for […]
Are communicators in Europe ready for blogs?
Yesterday’s announcement that the New Communications Forum 2005 conference in Paris next month has been postponed is a huge disappointment. After the resounding success of the first Forum in the US in January (some highlights here), everyone involved was looking forward to a similar experience in Europe. Posted on the Forum blog, the announcement included […]
A popular post can be a double-edged sword
What on earth’s going on? was my reaction at about 3.15pm when I happened to notice the little ‘Visiting NevOn’ Geoloc map showing 26 simultaneous visitors to this blog. I quickly grabbed a screenshot, shown here. The little green circles (or ‘throbbing green doughnuts’ as one visitor has commented) show the countries where current visitors […]
The deafening silence continues
Eric Eggertson, an IABC member in Canada, writes: […] In 10 short days I’ve gone from being a fairly satisfied IABC member with a benign attitude toward the organization’s leadership to an annoyed skeptic, wondering why such a simple organizational communications matter can’t be dealt with quickly and effectively. If the silence continues much longer, […]
Our podcast rigs
During Thursday’s edition of The Hobson & Holtz Report, Shel and I both promised to post a photo of the kit we both use for producing our bi-weekly podcast shows. Well, here are the photos that are posted on the podcast blog: The pic on the left is Shel’s rig; on the right is mine. […]
Meet your virtual policeman
One answer to stretched resources and budgets, and a leap forward in a practical use of the latest technology. BBC News reports: The UK’s first ‘virtual’ police station is up and running, giving residents face-to-face access to a police officer 24 hours a day. The video link connects a kiosk in the foyer at Mumbles […]
Defining the future of blogs and social networks in Europe
A conference taking place in Paris next month is rapidly shaping up into what could be a defining event in Europe about social networks, corporate blogging, nanopublishing and where it’s all heading. An initiative by Loic Le Meur, Executive VP Europe of Six Apart, the one-day event was originally known as "Internet 2.0." It has […]
Illustrating unfiltered conversation
Last week, I posted critical commentary about Anita Roddick’s website which I’d discovered when researching information about the enterprise software market (no, there’s no connection between the two – the links you follow when researching on the net can lead you to some interesting places). Anita Roddick is well-known as the founder of The Body […]
A stroll through the neighbourhood
Today is the first really spring-like day of the year in Amsterdam. A hazy but sunny day, temperature about 19 Celsius (about 66 F), so it felt nice for my wife and I to take a stroll for an hour or so around our neighbourhood with my camera this afternoon. I snapped quite a few […]
How to optimize Firefox
If you want to set up Firefox on your Windows PC so that it runs as fast and smoothly as possible, and without having to figure out all those cryptic programming commands when you type ‘about:config’ in the address bar, then Firetune looks like the number. As evangelized by David Taylor in Home Computer Magazine: […]
Blogging policies: A couple made for marriage
Last week, Michael Hyatt, President and COO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world and the ninth largest publishing company of any kind, wrote about launching a ‘corporate blog aggregator site’ which would link individual employees’ blogs. Michael says: Like many companies, we have struggled with what guidance to give […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #17: March 21, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments: on suggestions for how to comment, video and vlogging trends, differences between internal blogs and bulletin boards; interview – an open conversation with Steve Rubel; discussion about the interview; planned changes in show format for future interviews. Show notes for March 21, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & […]
New GM podcast hits the right spot
GM posted a new podcast to the GM FastLane Blog yesterday – and hits the right spot with content, production and presentation that validates the concept of this rapidly-emerging medium as a business communication tool. In the style of talk radio – the show is described as ‘FastLane Radio’ – the 12-minute podcast is a […]
The tipping point for IABC
After weeks of leadership silence as IABC members and others conduct an open and, at times, volatile discussion on Allan Jenkins’ blog (nearly 50 comments at my last count), incoming IABC Chair Warren Bickford has now contributed some comments to a parallel discussion that’s starting to develop in Memberspeak, IABC’s discussion forum for members only. […]
New PR survey
Tom Murphy at PR Opinions has launched his second annual PR survey, and asks all PR professionals to participate. Tom says: If you have a couple of minutes why not complete the survey here. I’ll be publishing the results in the coming weeks. Let’s support Tom’s initiative to gather some useful information on PR and […]
The labour of love and tough choices
Reading Robert Scoble’s post this morning that he’s giving up doing his link blog brings home in a very direct way some harsh reality about this blogging caper. It takes up a lot of time! If you run a blog as a labour of love, you will face a crunch sooner or later as you […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #18: March 24, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments: on reporting rather than commenting, bulletin boards and blogs, listening on the bus, not listening on the run, fixing a mashup; blogs and communicators in Europe; changing demographics for media; GM’s new podcasts and other podcast developments; open source marketing; IABC; Robert Scoble and time challenges for bloggers; Creative Commons tool […]
Tips for successful media relations
If you’re a PR pro, you have your text books and you’ve done the training on how to relate to journalists and how to handle media interviews. Well, put those things away and take look at some sound advice from David Tebbutt, a journalist in the UK who’s been there, done that and got the […]
The ideas of individuals make a team effective
One of the blogs on my regular RSS reading list is Creating Passionate Users, a collaborative blog by five authors at Head First Books from O’Reilly Media. In a real gem of a post, Kathy Sierra talks about how one of us is smarter than all of us, meaning that it’s not the consensus decisions […]