Apple released iTunes 5.0 earlier this month, which generated quite a number of complaints from users such as this one by Michael Hyatt. I installed version 5 for Windows and have not experienced any problems with it nor with syncing music and podcasts to my iPod Mini. Nevertheless, clearly there were issues with version 5, […]
Category: Web/Tech
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #70: September 22, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (more on five-assed monkeys; training employees on blogging; teaser samples for podcast subscriptions; bad e-book websites; podcasting in education; software that blocks Skype; a communication challenge update); Dan York’s report; Global PR Blog Week 2.0 update; b5media blog network; is the CEO’s finger really on the pulse at Microsoft?; copyright […]
BMW podcasts from Frankfurt Motor Show
On Wednesday, I wrote about BMW inviting some bloggers to the Frankfurt Motor Show. Today news that BMW is podcasting from the show in English and German. The introductory podcast says BMW will be presenting a series of podcasts during the show which runs until 25 September. So far, I’ve received nearly a dozen separate […]
Telling the EU what we want
What do online Europeans want from an e-enabled government? asks William Heath: Public sector computerisation will cost Europe €88bn in 2005. But did we ever say what we wanted? Are e-government projects designed for citizens? Do we use them? Will they make life easier and meet our needs? Should we trust them? Unless we ask, […]
FIR Interview: Charles Pizzo, Katrina evacuee – September 25, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel and Neville spoke with Charles Pizzo, a 20-year veteran of communications, a top-ranked speaker and writer and a former Chairman of the Board of IABC and its Research Foundation. A native of New Orleans, Charles evacuated from that city following Hurricane Katrina and the total […]
The prize for Skype
Writing in the Financial Times last week, Stuart Henshall has an interesting analysis of Skype’s call forwarding functionality and what that could mean for eBay and Skype users following eBay’s acquisition of Skype a few weeks ago: […] With call transfer, by contrast, the call can be answered and redirected to either another Skype account […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #71: September 26, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (building engagement; figuring out b5media; the problem with Google Print; good and bad batteries; ID3 tags; finding the needle in the haystack); soundvertising with Senseo; sound quality challenges with podcast interviewing by phone; podcasting: tech challenges and communication opportunities; new business podcasts; tagging; Lee Hopkins report; end of the road […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 27-Sept-05
24-megabit broadband launched at £24 a month Are You on Top of Your Enterprise IM Blogging @ McDonald’s Blogs that link to Global PR Blog Week 2.0 Book: Blog! How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business and Culture — by David Kline & Dan Burstein Feed Etiquette IABC Financial Communications Conference – Notes […]
Spreading the word in Europe
As we head into the last quarter of 2005, it’s great to see so many worthwhile professional development events taking place during the next few months which either are wholly about social media from the business perspective or prominently include this broad topic as a constituent part of a conference or seminar. I invest quite […]
Free access to PR Week online
Hot on the heels of PR Week’s making available RSS feeds of much of the content of their US and UK editions, the publisher of the weekly PR industry journal is now offering free access to the complete content of PR Week US and PR Week UK online editions until the end of October. A […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #72: September 29, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments, an update on the iPod nano, Wikimedia’s open-source textbook project, more on soundvertising, Neville’s cheese sandwich, a great quote for making the employee blogging case, Whirlpool starts a podcast, a business podcasting white paper, Neville’s new mixer. Show notes for September 29, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & […]
Blog network aids graduate recruitment
Reading a review of corporate blogs in the Financial Times the other day, I spotted a new gem mentioned in the feature – a series of blogs set up by Cadbury Schweppes in the UK as part of its graduate recruitment activities. From Cadbury’s press release: Cadbury Schweppes, the world’s largest confectionery company, has opened […]
Keeping Apple coolness intact
The problems with scratches on the new iPod nano that hundreds of users reported during the past two weeks hasn’t turned out to be the brand, reputation and PR crisis for Apple that it could have been. Thanks largely to a public acknowledgement that a batch of nanos did suffer from a manufacturing defect regarding […]
Big choices in the UK for internet phone services
If Skype paved the way for free and low-cost telephone calls via the internet for early adopters, enthusiasts and others who ‘saw the light,’ then Freetalk looks set to kick-start a mass market in the UK with the launch last week of a new internet phone service that lets you use the phones you already […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #73: October 3, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion; changes to podcast show notes; PR waking up to social media; Nielsen survey on RSS subscribers; Wikipedia article posted on Wikipedia; book publishers using podcasts; blog spam forces a blog to close; Lee Hopkins report; Yahoo! to start digitizing books; US GAO publishes Ketchumgate findings; podcasting at The Conference Board. […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 04-Oct-05
Broadband Adoption in the United States: Growing but Slowing Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 2 Employee No. 1 Is Scouting China for Google First Monday — Podcasting: A new technology in search of viable business models Internet Sales Tax on the Horizon Microsoft confirms next XP service pack Microsoft is Podcasting Netscape Lands Browser […]
IBM’s credible message: Blogging means business
Two senior IBM executives are featured in an informative and engaging series of audiovisual presentations that present the case for blogs as strategic business tools. Presented by Harriet Pearson, IBM’s Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President for Corporate Affairs, and Willy Chiu, Vice President of IBM’s High Performance On Demand Solutions Group, some very interesting […]
Solving your communication challenges
IABC members will soon be receiving their copy of the brochure for IABC EuroComm 2005, the fifth annual professional development conference in Europe that brings together communicators from across the globe to share best practices, examine case studies and discuss the latest developments in communication planning, practice and analysis. Considering the role of new media […]
Podcasting the Conference Board conference
My FIR co-presenter, Shel Holtz, recorded a series of podcasts at the Conference Board’s 2005 Corporate Communication and Technology Conference in New York on 26 September. Those podcasts are still not showing on the conference web page – but, last night, seven podcasts showed up in the podcast RSS feed in my RSS reader. So […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #74: October 6, 2005
Content summary: Edelman/Technorati survey results, AOL’s instant messenger hits the blogosphere, a threat to Microsoft Office, Apple’s upcoming announcement, a new communications podcast, the Conference Board podcasts, a report from Dan York, a cautionary tale of comment spam and fake blogs, listener comments, and way, way more. Show notes for October 6, 2005 Welcome to […]