Earlier this week, I wrote about what some French newspapers are doing with blogs, commenting on Le Monde, Libération and Le Figaro. In the case of Le Monde, they have reader blogs where readers of the paper can blog about news stories they’d like to see covered. Libération has three journalists’ blogs providing readers with […]
Category: Communication
Transparency leads to genuine debate
A thoughtful view on what the role of a blog sponsored and supported by the World Economic Forum should be and how the blog should develop comes from Lance Knoble writing in his Davos Newbies blog, in specific regard to the effects of the controversial Eason Jordan affair First, a quick recap for anyone outside […]
Northern Voice posts on PR wiki
Constantin Basturea has put together an excellent resources page on The New PR Wiki listing posts about the Northern Voice Canadian blogging conference that took place in Vancouver at the weekend. The resources page includes links to attendees’ posts on the many presenters’ sessions and panel discussions. Some excellent material here and well worth checking […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #9: February 21, 2005
Show notes for February 21, 2005. Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 47:14-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 19.4MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with […]
An open conversation with General Motors
A few hours ago, Shel and I had the pleasure of an 18-minute conversation with Michael Wiley, Director New Media, GM Communications, at General Motors. We interviewed Michael for the 21 February edition of our bi-weekly podcast show For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report. In our conversation, we discussed the GM FastLane Blog, […]
Hobson & Holtz on the Daily Source Code
Last week, Shel and I recorded a little 30-second MP3 promo that we sent to Adam Curry to raise a little awareness with his Daily Source Code mega-audience of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, our bi-weekly podcast show on business communication and technology. Adam played it on yesterday’s DSC! If you’ve not […]
UK newspaper launches blog
The Observer newspaper in the UK will launch a blog this coming Sunday. Journalist, writer and cigar aficionado Ben Hammersley reports: Sparklines! Folksonomies! Tagging! XHTML Compliant! Accessible! Contemporania! It’s not officially live until next Sunday, and is slightly broken and unfinished in places, but seeing as it’s you, you can have a look at my […]
Blogs and wikis change the dynamics of business
Tom Foremski, publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher and ex-FT correspondent, writes a terrific piece in today’s Financial Times on a new phase of the internet that’s emerging, fuelled by a new class of technologies coming out of Silicon Valley that don’t even have a name yet, but have the potential to be disruptive in their […]
A mobile device wish list
Reuters via eWeek: Sony Corp. said on Wednesday it would stop making personal digital assistants for Japan in July, completing its withdrawal from a market hit by multi-functional cellphones and casting a shadow over the tools’ growth potential. The move was widely expected after the electronics and entertainment conglomerate said last year it would stop […]
More media moves into RSS
Following recent news that the Financial Times and The Economist now offer RSS feeds comes more news on other media developments with RSS. Steve Rubel reports that the Associated Press offers 17 RSS feeds. This is the first time AP stories are available directly on the web in RSS as opposed to running through Yahoo […]
Communicators give top marks to GM
On Monday, Shel and I interviewed Michael Wiley of General Motors in our bi-weekly podcast show on business communication and technology. During our conversation with Michael, we discussed a wide range of topics – the GM FastLane Blog, GM’s experiments with podcasting and GM’s plans for further developments with communication channels like blogs, podcasting and […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #10: February 24, 2005
Show notes for February 24, 2005. Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 54:14-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Chicago, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 22MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your […]
Citizen broadcasting demonstrated
Jeff Jarvis has a great illustration on how easy it is for anyone to participate in broadcast communication: Who needs a multimillion-dollar studio? What you see above is the blogcast studio: A Logitech laptop camera atop my screen; the screen atop a box to get it to eye-level; notes for the spiels taped to the […]
CeBIT provides opportunies for engagement
A new wireless network roaming service will be available to visitors attending the annual CeBIT technology trade show in Hanover, Germany, from 10-16 March, InfoWorld reports. T-Systems International, the IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom, will provide a roaming service to subscribers of wireless network operators connected to its international roaming system, according to Christian […]
Nooked launches searchable directory of corporate RSS feeds
Nooked, the creator of an online RSS service for publishing and measuring corporate news in RSS feeds, launched the beta version of a searchable directory of corporate RSS feeds on Friday. The Nooked RSS Directory provides a free, easy way to search for corporate RSS feeds by keyword or category. It indexes RSS feeds in […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #11: February 28, 2005
Show notes for February 28, 2005. Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 25MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with […]
It’s about the communication, not the technology
Today marks the beginning of a new venture that brings together four European-based communication professionals to offer organizations something a little different in the field of communication consulting and communication technology. Elizabeth Albrycht, Christophe Ducamp, Guillaume du Gardier and myself have formed Blogging Planet, a new consultancy designed to help companies in Europe and the […]
Skype approaches a crossroads
Is Skype reaching a sort of crossroads with its internet phone service in terms of customer satisfaction? Quite a few people think so, it seems. So perhaps I should really say – customer dissatisfaction. I’ve commented recently on the poor service with SkypeOut, which looks as though it’s at the heart of the many and […]
Phone companies feeling the pinch from VoIP
BBC News: Dutch phone company KPN has announced plans to cut 8,000 jobs over the next five years after it reported a sharp drop in annual profits. The firm made a pre-tax profit of 1.84bn euros (£1.26bn) in 2004, down from 2.25bn euros in 2003. […] The company’s chief executive Ad Scheepbouwer said the redundancies […]
Connections create value from content
"Show me the content!" asks Joël Céré in response to our announcement yesterday on the launch of Blogging Planet. He refers to this text in the description of the corporate consulting services that Blogging Planet offers: […] it is the medium – the network you build – that matters, not the message – the content. […]