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: […]
Category: Communication
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 […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #83: November 7, 2005
Content summary: How we recorded today’s show; views on Hawaii; listeners’ comments; RSS discussion; The Spinfluencer interviews Alex Ben Block; the ousting of the Financial Times’ editor; US Democrats defeat blogger immunity bill; new survey on employee communication; how market researchers can use blogs; Lee Hopkins’ report; and more. Show notes for November 7, 2005 […]
CEOs say blogs are useful
CNET News: A growing number of American chief executives rate blogs high as employee communication tools, though a majority of them remain skeptical about starting their own, a new study shows. About 59 percent of CEOs surveyed said they find Web logs, or blogs, useful for internal communications, while 47 percent see them as tools […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #84: November 10, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (getting online when traveling abroad); strife in podcast land; a lawsuit against Apple goes international; don’t play non-podsafe music: the warning from Adam Curry’s recent experience; blaming bloggers for rioting in France; eBay introduces more RSS feeds; Dan York’s Report; search strategies for PR; questions from a Financial Times feature on […]
FIR Speakers & Speeches: November 3, 2005 – CiB & IABC UK Panel Discussion
This panel discussion in London, organized by the British Association of Communicators in Business and the IABC UK Chapter, was titled "Join the Virtual Revolution." The organizers described the event: "Digital media is changing the way we communicate. Just as we’ve got our heads around the internet, email and mobile technology, a new wave of […]
Email might still be king but RSS is the heir
BBC News: Tesco is bombarding UK consumers with a massive e-mail marketing campaign. Way ahead of its supermarket rivals, it issued 44 separate e-mail campaigns last month, more than Sainsbury, Asda, Waitrose and Somerfield put together. According to e-mail marketing firm Interactive Prospect Targeting Services, Tesco is blitzing the nation with 16-20 million e-mails per […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #85: November 14, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (Blue Boxes and phone phreaks; the music industry and podsafe music; recommended IT Conversations interview; Daily Telegraph starts podcasting; more on the anti-blog backlash; regulating American political blogs); Wikipedia defends itself; report from the Portable Media Expo; most powerful women bloggers list includes a man; Podcaster News launches; My Syndicaat RSS […]
TypePad customers get an offer that’s hard to refuse
As many TypePad users know, the hosted blog service has been a literal nightmare to use in recent months. I’ve posted my frustrations about it as have many other TypePad users. There’s even one blogger who started a blog (on Blogger) last week on filing a class action lawsuit against Six Apart. No takers yet […]
Hoodwinking the marketers
Thanks to executive blogs and internet video, the dark ages are back, according to an article in The Independent yesterday. In a rant that displays an embarrassing lack of awareness and understanding of the changes in how relationships with customers and others are emerging, Stefano Hatfield uses GM vice chairman Bob Lutz and the GM […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #86: November 17, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (the FIR comment line; FIR RSS feeds; Shel’s website calendar; group vs. individual blogs; blogs and podcasts as conversation; the appropriateness of blogs as part of integrated marketing programs, Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits blog); Neville’s trip to the University of Sunderland, FIR has a Frappr map, more on Waxmail, Heather Green’s new […]
Murphy’s Law and smartphones
One of the downside elements of being away for a couple of days and not online at all is the time you then have to spend going through email and RSS feeds. It always seems to me that the high volume of stuff is directly proportional to the length of time you’re not online. Definitely […]
The new PR and the angels of the north
The north-east of England probably wouldn’t be the first place that would spring to mind where you’d expect to find one of the hottest gatherings of communicators eager to learn about the new PR – the place where communication and the new media ecosystem (blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts) intersect and connect. Yet that’s what […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #87: November 21, 2005
Content summary: Show 100 wish; The Sunderland experience; listeners’ comments; new free RSS and wiki tools; angry AOL bloggers push boycotts; blocking bots from stealing content; Google’s new head of communications in Europe and other developments; Eric Schwartzman’s Spinfluencer report; join the FIR community; upcoming interviews and book reviews; and more. Show notes for November […]
Extending RSS far beyond just delivery
Two extremely interesting and related pieces of information about RSS have come out in the past 24 hours. First, “How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued and consumed,” an 8-page PDF report from FeedBurner CEO Dick Costolo. There is quite a bit of technically-focused information in Dick’s report, much of which goes […]
FIR Book Review: “Naked Conversations”
In this edition of For Immediate Release book reviews, Neville and Shel discuss "Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers," the new book on blogging and businesses by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, to be published in January 2006. The Book: "With a foreword by Tom Peters, author of such […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #88: November 24, 2005
Content summary: The Washington Post offers content mashups, IBM lets employees podcast internally, recording with Waxmail, our review of Naked Conversations, Richard Edelman’s post on PR’s readiness for discontinuous change, it’s time for annual predictions, pro- and anti-IKEA websites, Amazon’s new product wikis, character blogs, a report from Dan York, why CEOs don’t blog, listener […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #89: November 28, 2005
Content summary: AOL Journals update, a cheat sheet lets customers circumvent your IVR system, an ex-Googler starts a blog, replacing press releases with blogs, the future of newspapers, Steve Rubel’s high-level discussion on TheNewPR, an open-source marketing example, listener comments, and more. Show notes for November 28, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson […]