Stuart Henshall asks whether Skype should start blogging. Will Pate says Skype should. Will makes some very convincing arguments for why they should, including suggesting Skype hires a Chief Blogging Officer to be the new proactive interface between the company and its growing customer base. The CBO, and a blog, would play a major role […]
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TypePad access problems
TypePad have had some server issues during the past few days, meaning that you may have had some problems at times in accessing blogs hosted on TypePad. This alert note was posted by Typepad at the weekend. Today, though, for a period of about two hours this afternoon, I could neither log in to TypePad […]
Video learning about trackbacks and del.icio.us
You all know what trackbacks are, right? The pings that you set up between a post on your blog with a post on someone else’s blog in order to link the two? If you’re not sure what they are, you can read this definition on Wikipedia. Better still, you can watch three 9-minute video presentations […]
Yahoo to launch social networking portal
A new consumer-focused social networking offering from Yahoo will soon be launched in beta, according to information on the Yahoo website. Called Yahoo 360°, the new service will include a wide range of offerings including blogs and photo sharing. The most interesting aspect of the offering looks to be the way in which all the […]
New list of PR blogs
If you want a comprehensive and up-to-date list of blogs authored by PR professionals – and want a one-stop place for all the RSS feeds – look no further than the new resource list just created by Constantin Basturea. This new directory of PR blogs at Bloglines has more than 160 entries and includes personal, […]
Don’t say ‘blogger’ to US Immigration
This sounds like an unbelievable story, but it happened to Canadian blogger Jeremy Wright last week. As already reported on quite a few blogs, Jeremy was detained and interrogated by US Immigration when he arrived in New York last week for a meeting with McGraw-Hill to discuss a great business opportunity for Jeremy in the […]
Managing your information with tags
eWeek: In the quest to organize the web’s information, an emerging approach is putting the power to categorize everything from links to digital photos into the hands of users. In the halls and session rooms at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference [in San Diego], a series of talks this week explored the growing use of […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #16: March 17, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments: on PR ethics, slowing down podcasts, learning the ins and outs, listening to a ground-breaking first podcast, music and intersection with the past; Podshow.com and lowering the barriers to entry; folksonomies and categorizing your information; new communication channels too early for Europeans; iPodder new release and FeedDemon’s podcasting. Show notes for […]
Are communicators in Europe ready for blogs?
Yesterday’s announcement that the New Communications Forum 2005 conference in Paris next month has been postponed is a huge disappointment. After the resounding success of the first Forum in the US in January (some highlights here), everyone involved was looking forward to a similar experience in Europe. Posted on the Forum blog, the announcement included […]
A popular post can be a double-edged sword
What on earth’s going on? was my reaction at about 3.15pm when I happened to notice the little ‘Visiting NevOn’ Geoloc map showing 26 simultaneous visitors to this blog. I quickly grabbed a screenshot, shown here. The little green circles (or ‘throbbing green doughnuts’ as one visitor has commented) show the countries where current visitors […]
Defining the future of blogs and social networks in Europe
A conference taking place in Paris next month is rapidly shaping up into what could be a defining event in Europe about social networks, corporate blogging, nanopublishing and where it’s all heading. An initiative by Loic Le Meur, Executive VP Europe of Six Apart, the one-day event was originally known as "Internet 2.0." It has […]
Illustrating unfiltered conversation
Last week, I posted critical commentary about Anita Roddick’s website which I’d discovered when researching information about the enterprise software market (no, there’s no connection between the two – the links you follow when researching on the net can lead you to some interesting places). Anita Roddick is well-known as the founder of The Body […]
Blogging policies: A couple made for marriage
Last week, Michael Hyatt, President and COO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world and the ninth largest publishing company of any kind, wrote about launching a ‘corporate blog aggregator site’ which would link individual employees’ blogs. Michael says: Like many companies, we have struggled with what guidance to give […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #17: March 21, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments: on suggestions for how to comment, video and vlogging trends, differences between internal blogs and bulletin boards; interview – an open conversation with Steve Rubel; discussion about the interview; planned changes in show format for future interviews. Show notes for March 21, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & […]
New GM podcast hits the right spot
GM posted a new podcast to the GM FastLane Blog yesterday – and hits the right spot with content, production and presentation that validates the concept of this rapidly-emerging medium as a business communication tool. In the style of talk radio – the show is described as ‘FastLane Radio’ – the 12-minute podcast is a […]
The labour of love and tough choices
Reading Robert Scoble’s post this morning that he’s giving up doing his link blog brings home in a very direct way some harsh reality about this blogging caper. It takes up a lot of time! If you run a blog as a labour of love, you will face a crunch sooner or later as you […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #18: March 24, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments: on reporting rather than commenting, bulletin boards and blogs, listening on the bus, not listening on the run, fixing a mashup; blogs and communicators in Europe; changing demographics for media; GM’s new podcasts and other podcast developments; open source marketing; IABC; Robert Scoble and time challenges for bloggers; Creative Commons tool […]
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 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 […]