In taking up his new role next month as editor of The Guardian Technology supplement, freelance journalist Charles Arthur is doing something quite smart – asking readers for their opinions on how he should shape the newspaper under his editorship. Terrific use of a blog by a journalist as an ‘engagement engine’ with a newspaper’s […]
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #80: October 27, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (creating a reverse thesaurus; what’s in a name: ‘business continuity planning’; more on hearing about blogs; Libsyn glitches with podcast downloads); Yahoo RSS white paper; faux research from Advertising Age; the use of blogs during labour disputes; TypePad has service problems from rapid growth; OpenOffice 2.0 is out; Waxmail for […]
A new call for ethics in PR
PR Week reports on a call to action by the newly-appointed president of the International Communications Consultancy Organization, Fleishman-Hillard executive V-P John Saunders: Following on from an impassioned speech at last week’s Prague global summit, where his presidency was announced, he told PRWeek: ‘This is no longer the golden age of PR. We will need […]
BBC innovation to annotate audio content
The BBC is involved in some major innovation for audio-visual content management that looks far beyond the needs of only a mainstream broadcaster. Tom Coates writes a detailed post describing the BBC’s Annotatable Audio Project, an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow you to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion. He […]
Understanding Web 2.0
This afternoon, I was in a Skype discussion with an old friend in the UK and part of our conversation strayed into a discussion about Web 2.0. My friend thinks it’s just meaningless marketing hype and similar to all the talk that we heard in the late 90s dot-com era (or Web 1.0, as I […]
The blogger two heartbeats from the US President
I saw the news the other day that Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, started blogging. Interesting, I thought, even though the blog doesn’t have an RSS feed nor a way to leave comments. So I blogrolled it for a look now and again and moved on. Until I saw this comment […]
Podcast interview with Forbes
An interesting follow-up to the Forbes shallow journalism story (my unrepentant description) yesterday which described how the magazine portrayed blogs and bloggers as the source of all evil. In a comment yesterday to Steve Rubel’s critical post, podcaster John Furrier says he’s interviewing Forbes’ proprietor Steve Forbes about the benefits of social media: On Monday […]
TypePad and the art of patience
Probably similar to every TypePad customer, I received an email over the weekend from Six Apart CEO Barak Berkowitz with more commentary on what Six Apart is doing to sort out the service issues arising from TypePad’s growing pains. It’s good communication to customers and does give you a better sense of the scale of […]
Smart advice for PRs engaging with bloggers
In an article published online today, PR Week gives some sound advice to PR professionals on how to engage and work with bloggers. The article includes some excellent quotes from some in the PR profession. Two examples: Sarah Bresee, account executive, OutCast Communications: “I think that a lot of people are afraid of blogs in […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #81: October 31, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion; launch interview with Jen McClure of Society for New Communciations Research; Forbes magazine attacks blogs; minding the conversation gap; Lee Hopkins report. Show notes for October 31, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 86-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, […]
IABC conference blog launched
Today The Plenary Panel Weblog launched. This new blog is designed to be a place for commentary and discussion about the theme of the panel discussion that will kick off the first day, 1 December, of the IABC EuroComm 2005 conference taking place in Paris from 30 November to 2 December. The theme for the […]
Dell’s hell as earnings fall short
ZDNet: Dell announced on Monday that third-quarter revenue will fall well short of expectations due to sluggish consumer sales and a faulty component in its OptiPlex desktop PC. […] The leader in computer manufacturing blames its shortfall partially on sluggish consumer sales in the U.S. and U.K. […] Dell fell into similar territory in [the […]
The easiest way to record and email voice messages
In the last couple of editions of FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast, we’ve been going on about Waxmail, a very cool new tool for creating and sending voice email messages. There are other apps out there but this is the easiest and simplest one to use that I’ve seen. I’ve been playing with […]
The alliance is dead… Long live the alliance
While the metaphorical headline to this post might seem a little melodramatic, it’s actually quite apt as it sums up how I see the future following the decision by Guillaume du Gardier, Elizabeth Albrycht and me to dissolve Blogging Planet, the informal alliance we formed together last March. With Guillaume being snapped up by Edelman […]
The characteristics of a great employer
A terrific feature in the Financial Times on what makes a company a consistently great employer uses US companies such as AG Edwards, Goldman Sachs, Nordstrom, SC Johnson, Whole Foods Market, Cisco Systems and Microsoft as their classic examples of such great employers. And what makes a great employer? With frequent reference to Built to […]
A bit of Web 2.0 from Microsoft
I haven’t yet absorbed all the information about Microsoft’s introduction of Windows Live and Microsoft Office Live yesterday, although I have read the press release plus scanned a few tech-focused articles this morning via Memeorandum. A good (ie, easiest for me to understand) news report I read was this one from Dan Farber at ZDNet: […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #82: November 2, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments; Euroblogs survey; Steve Rubel and the cancer blog; speaking engagements; the anti-women ad executive who resigned; Bacon’s cluelessness; Panasonic’s character blog; Arla Foods three blogs; Dan York’s Report; pimping for podcast votes; and more. Show notes for November 2, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an […]
Making everything easy
Little or no blogging until the weekend as I’ll be in London. Later today, I’ll be at the BBC participating in a panel discussion "Join the Virtual Revolution" (link to PDF), organized by the British Association of Communicators in Business and IABC UK Chapter. About 80 people signed up for the session, I gather, so […]
BBC web users have their say
Some lively conversations going on in the BBC News website’s Have Your Say section, a forum where anyone can contribute comment and opinion on topics presented for discussion. One of the interesting things about this forum is the comment recommendation system where readers can recommend a comment to tell the BBC and other readers which […]
Updated list of European corporate blogs
Fredrik Wacka, who writes the popular CorporateBloggingInfo blog, updated his list of European corporate blogs last week. The updated list includes blogs by organizations in Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK. This is a very useful resource, complementary to the strongly US-focused list […]