Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (on enjoying On A Podcast; effects of failing to meet customers’ expectations; collaborative new media in the church; understanding the tech landscape; digital rights; pitching bloggers; PR uses for tags, supporting a cause); FIR in GNC; open source production at GNC; Talk Digger; Fox Network podcasts; talking blogs with Talkr; […]
Category: Weblogs
PodcastCon UK gears up
Coming in September – PodcastCon UK, the first conference in Europe dedicated to podcasting. According to the sign-up wiki today, nearly 50 people have signed up so far. The organizers – Paul Nicholls, Alex Bellinger, Neil Dixon and Adrian Pegg – have done no real publicity yet so this is all word-of-mouth and via blogs. […]
IABC Cafe adds more bloggers
It goes from strength to strength – the IABC Cafe adds guest baristas to the roster of bloggers, joining chief barista Warren Bickford. Since Warren took the helm of this IABC blog in April, he has shaped it into a place that you really do want to vist and listen to or participate in the […]
Oracle’s content management moves
As the blogosphere continues to grow and companies consider the large-scale business benefits of blogs as integrated elements of enterprise collaborative-working tools, how significant, I wonder, is this news of Oracle’s acquisition of a small company called Context Media, reported by CNET News: […] The purchase gives Oracle software designed specifically for moving documents between […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #56: August 4, 2005
Content summary: Presentation on podcasting to McGraw-Hill’s communicators in New York City; conference questions-and-answers discussion. Show notes for August 4, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 60-minute conversation recorded live from New York City, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 24MB), or sign up for […]
Blogs part of new media monitoring service
Factiva is looking to cash in on companies wanting to monitor what bloggers are saying about them, with a new service that searches blogs and message boards. Revolution magazine reports that the company has built the facility into its Factiva Insight: Reputation Intelligence service, which monitors mainstream media. As the result of a partnership with […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #57: August 8, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (get the message out with blogs; new features for Talk Digger; enjoying the show and music; getting a purpose going forward; yes to password-protected RSS feeds; surreal iPod experience; being blown away by show #56 as a great podcasting tutorial; iPod alarm clocks; less time to appreciate podcasts; podcast music […]
Interview: Constantin Basturea – August 10, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel and Neville enjoyed a 45-minute conversation with Constantin Basturea, the man behind The New PR Wiki and Global PR Blog Weeks I and II. About our conversation partner: Originally from Romania, Constantin Basturea (pronounced BahshTUra) came to the US when his wife opted to pursue […]
The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #58: August 11, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (ID3 tags, an open-source RSS tool for audio, Skylook, copyrights and podcast music, pocasting librarians, "Advertising by the Government of Canada," and Free Government Information); Hill & Knowlton UK’s employee blogging initiative; Neville’s new computer; Neville’s new blog, the redesign of Desirable Roasted Coffee; our interview with Constantin Basturea; the […]
The spammers win for now
I’ve been resisting this for weeks, but I’ve succumbed – this blog now has moderation in place for comments and trackbacks. This is now possible to do on a TypePad blog as a result of the service enhancements introduced by Six Apart last month. The final straw for me was having to spend over an […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #59: August 15, 2005
Content summary: RSS, Atom and phonetic alphabet; listeners’ comments discussion (global Hill & Knowlton blogging; registering podcasts with iTunes; Yahoo’s Blog for Hope); suing anonymous bloggers; finding new voice talent; French PR firestarter; big issues for British Airways and Gate Gourmet; Unilever monitors blogs; the war against blog spammers; Blog Business Summit; challenges with trackbacks […]
How reliable is the Top 500 blogs list?
The Feedster search engine has just introduced a monthly listing of the Top 500 blogs. It’s an interesting list, which I find especially remarkable as one of my blogs is included. At number 221 in the list, NevOn Experimental appears: Flattering but remarkable. That blog is one which I post to quite infrequently, on average […]
Interview: Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek – August 16, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel and Neville enjoyed a 36-minute conversation with Pete Blackshaw, Chief Marketing and Customer Satisfaction Officer of Intelliseek, Inc, the company behind Blogpulse and Brandpulse. Topics and themes discussed include: consumer motivation and word-of-mouth marketing; measurement metrics; comparing blog search tools and what may develop in […]
Great resources for communicators
One blog that’s in my RSS reader and which I regularly scan is Adverblog by Martina Zavagno. A great resource always full of interesting news and info about campaigns and on the global advertising and marketing scene. Martina’s put up two useful lists – one that lists advertising and marketing blogs, and another that lists […]
Blogging books on sale
Congratulations to Shel Israel and Robert Scoble for getting Naked Conversations out the door (their door, that is) and available now for pre-ordering from Amazon. Congrats equally to Jeremy Wright for completing his book, Blog Marketing, also available on pre-order from Amazon. Each book will be available in January 2006 and December this year, respectively. […]
More than ego-stroking the Top 500
ClickZ News: Feedster is floating a new top 500 list of blogs, ranked according to their accumulation of inbound links. Media buyers say they’re watching the list, but they disagree on its value as a consideration tool for ad placements in blogs. The “Feedster 500,” which challenges the long-standing Technorati 100 list and claims to […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #60: August 18, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (blog comment moderation; alternatives to British Airways; FedEx the new ‘blogger Satan’; iPod display; news about Furl; why Hill & Knowlton started employee blogging; spicing up web pages; Skype for business calls; cool Jyve; smart Segway; Audacity and ID3); new audio recording equipment; no credibility for anonymous blogger; Cruisebox kick […]
WordPress starts hosted blogging service
Announced at Blog Business Summit in San Francisco today – WordPress, the open-source (and free) blog publishing platform, has started a hosted blog publishing service. To participate, you need an invitation. What will the offering be? Free, like Blogger? Paid, like TypePad? No details yet but undoubtedly more will emerge very soon. (Hat tip: DL […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #61: August 22, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (Josh buys a podcast rig; no problem with anonymous blogging; big thanks to FIR listeners); locked-out CBC employees with podcasts; an interview from the CBC picket line; Share your Story success; PodcastCon UK starts interviews; IABC Belgium starts a blog; no, your email is not private; get used to hearing […]
Webinar: Blogs and internal communication
If you have responsibility for internal communication and want to find out how you can use blogs effectively within your organization, you might want to consider participating in a 90-minute webinar on Wednesday 31 August in which I will be one of the speakers. Blogs and their implications on internal communication – are you ready […]