Wouldn’t it be great to have a good handle on what will happen this year to make sure you could plan around it? asks Mitchell Levy, CEO and executive editor of Happy About, a US publisher of books for corporations. In his latest book, Knowing What to Expect in 2005: Predictions from Over 50 Executives, […]
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An open conversation with Steve Rubel, Micro Persuasion
Last Monday 21 March, Shel and I interviewed Steve Rubel for The Hobson & Holtz Report bi-weekly podcast. Steve is Vice President Client Solutions at CooperKatz, a New York PR firm, and author of the Micro Persuasion blog. He is arguably the most prominent and influential blogger in the PR profession either side of the […]
The colours of Keukenhof
One of the things The Netherlands is well known for is flowers, tulips in particular. And there’s one place in particular where you can see tulips of every single type imaginable. Not only tulips, but also other flowers including rare orchids. That place is Keukenhof outside the town of Lisse, about a 20-minute drive from […]
Easy podcast tag editing
If you do podcasting on a Windows PC, you’ll find AudioShell extremely useful. AudioShell is a freeware Windows Explorer shell extension plugin which allows you to view and edit music file tags directly in Windows Explorer. It adds tag editor and viewer tabs to the properties page of music files. You can edit tags file […]
New social network focuses on building trust
A new business networking service hopes to set itself apart by de-emphasizing the friends-bringing-in-friends strategy of many social networks and, instead, matching up people according to their professional affiliations and interests. InternetWeek reports on new entrant Common Network, which launched in February, and its plans to grow by partnering with larger organizations as a private-label […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #19: March 28, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments: keep it up, ego boosting and a listening experience; video news releases and responsibilities; relying or not on third-party web services; new tool for tracking where a conversation goes; the Disney mouse that roared; asking the blogosphere for input on policy; the risks of writing and posting without due diligence. Show […]
Technorati’s one billion links contest
Via Mike Manuel comes news that Technorati has opened up a contest to guess when the service will reach a mega milestone – tracking one billion links. Technorati CEO Dave Sifry has the details: Technorati would like to mark this special event for our members with a “One Billion Links Tracked” contest. Entries must be […]
Light posting
Things will be a bit quiet on this blog for the next few days as I’ll be on the road. That’s the only reason, not due to any crunches or burn-outs! Depending on time, opportunity and available wireless networks, I hope to post at least occasionally between now and the end of the week. Shel […]
Back tomorrow
My first chance to combine a) access to the net and b) and opportunity to jot down these few words for the blog. Currently sitting in the departure area in Terminal 4 at London Heathrow waiting for my BA flight back to Amsterdam. Low-cost ticket so no lounge access this time. There’s a nice Starbucks, […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #20: March 31, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments: audio comments and a few written ones, too, on VNRs, multimedia search, and new blogs; Elizabeth Albrycht’s advice column; Nielsen-Norman’s top 10 intranets; Microsoft’s newly named stripped-down Windows XP for Europe; new bloggers at GM’s Fastlane blog; Yahoo 360; faux blogs; and monitoring employees’ online behavior. Show notes for March 31, […]
Email catchup and blackberries
One of the things that’s a real chore when you get back from a trip is catching up with email. I got back late last night from a 3-day trip to the UK and encountered 248 emails when I turned on my PC this morning. And that total excludes the spam stuff my spam catcher, […]
Podcasting the news on the Pope
The health of Pope John Paul is looking increasingly grave, according to all news reports. Things are not looking good at all. One medium I will be following closely is the Catholic Insider, the podcast blog by Father Roderick Vonhögen, catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Utrecht here in The Netherlands. As I write this, […]
IABC prepares relaunch of Chair blog
A post late yesterday on the IABC Chair Blog by outgoing IABC Chairman David Kistle is prefaced by this prominent statement: Look for the all-new IABC Blog at this URL, starting Wednesday, 6 April. I imagine this is a typo (like the post headline: “Bloogin’s cool…”) and the text should say “Look for the all-new […]
Taking Yahoo 360 for a spin
What a dilemma – six invitations to sign up to Yahoo 360°, the new social networking offering from Yahoo that launched in beta earlier this week. Which do I choose? So as not to offend anyone, I’ve accepted the first one I received based on the email date/time stamp. And that was from Mike Manuel. […]
Business cards that gape the void
Great! I’ve just received my repeat order for business cards featuring this Hugh McLeod cartoon on the back. I first ordered these cards just before last Christmas. Just like that original order, this repeat order exceeds my expectations in terms of good-value quality work, reliability of the vendor (StreetCards in London), and simply great and […]
BeOS gets a new life
Om Malik writes: Hey anyone remember the funky ole BeOS which became such a darling of the hackers, and died a horrible death with Apple chose to buy NextOS and bring back Steve Jobs. Well looks like it is not dead after all, thanks to a German software start-up, Yellow Tab. They have turned BeOS […]
Fake blog cheapens Diageo brand
In writing about how lame he thinks the Captain Morgan’s Rum fake blog is, Joël Céré says: I think it is less bad than the Mazda experiment as at least it allows for comments, and there are regular postings. Although there are some speculations on how such new blog got so many comments so quickly. […]
Preparations for Global PR Blog Week 2.0 have started
What Global PR Blog Week 2.0 is an online conference on how new media technologies are changing the practice of public relations and corporate communications. We’re talking weblogs and participatory journalism, wikis, podcasting, and RSS – but the list of topics is open. Global PR Blog Week 2.0 will follow the success of last year’s […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #21: April 4, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments: podcast annotating, indexing and navigating; running VNRs and press releases is shoddy journalism; mainstream media is not the way to go with youth messaging; searching blog feeds for photos, audio and video; Print media will still be around for a while; Darren Barefoot’s not smoking the podcasting dope; Catholic Insider at […]
Edelman and Intelliseek highlight the growing influence of blogs
A newly-published white paper on blogs from PR agency group Edelman and marketing intelligence firm Intelliseek explores the importance of blogging for public relations and marketing, and provides a first-of-its-kind directory of influential bloggers, segmented by industry. The report, Trust MEdia: How Real People Are Finally Being Heard (22-page PDF available for download from both […]